WEDDELL JAMES A Voyage Towards the South Pole Performed in t

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WEDDELL, JAMES. A Voyage Towards the South Pole, Performed in the Years 1822-24. 17 maps and plates, with the frontispiece hand-colored. 8vo, publisher's boards, rebacked and recased; some foxing to the aquatint plates, folding map of Cape Horn entirely separated along one fold; uncut. With 16 pages of publisher's ads dated June 1827 bound in preceding the title (with Weddell's Voyage listed as item 37). London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827

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This is the preferred second edition of Weddell's narrative describing his sealing expedition with Matthew Brisbane aboard the Jane and the Beaufroy to the Cape Verde, South Shetland, South Orkney and South Georgia Islands. The expedition reached 74º15' South -- farther than any to that point -- discovering the Weddell Sea and wintering in the Falklands. "The second edition . . . contains the entire 1825 [First Edition] text and plates, the 1826 Observations [on the Probability of Reaching the South Pole] with its two plates, and, for the first time, Weddell's account of Brisbane's impressions of the native Fuegans duing the latter's return voyage in the Beaufroy to Tierra del Fuego the following season"--Rosove 345.B1; Taurus 5; Spence 1248; Sabin 102431; Books on Ice 6.1 (1825 edition).

From the library of Dr. John M. Levinson, with his bookplate.