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ROSS, JOHN, Sir. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. 25 engraved or lithographed plates, including 9 hand-colored; 6 maps, the last folding, partly hand-colored in outline. Errata leaf. 4to, original navy patterned cloth, spine faded and blistered, covers detached; plates variously foxed, occasionally offsetting onto adjacent leaves, folding map loose. London, 1835
first edition, large-paper issue, of the account of Ross''s privately funded second Arctic voyage, resulting in the most extensive exploration of the Boothia Peninsula to date, during which Ross''s nephew James Clark Ross became the first to reach the North Magnetic Pole. Without the separately published appendix containing 20 additional plates. Abbey Travel 636; Arctic Bibliography 14866; Books on Ice 2.6; Hill 1490; Lande 1426.
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