[Rarebooks] FS: Ross NARRATIVE OF A SECOND VOYAGE IN SEARCH OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE, 1835

[Charles Agvent]

ROSS, Sir John. 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. Including the Reports of Commander, now Captain, 
James Clark Ross, and The Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole. 
London: A. W. Webster, 1835. First Edition. Large quarto (10" x 12-1/2") 
in the original blue cloth, neatly rebacked retaining the original 
gilt-lettered and decorated spine, endpapers renewed; [viii], xxxiii, 
[i], 740 pages. Illustrated with a portrait, 9 hand-colored plates, and 
21 views, charts, and maps, including the large folding hand-colored 
chart at the rear. Complete with the dedication, advertisement, and 
errata pages. Two issues of the NARRATIVE were published, a standard 
issue containing 3 color plates and a "royal" issue, printed on larger 
paper and with 6 additional hand-colored plates, as here. Abbey Travel 
636; Arctic Bibliography 14866; Lande 1426; Sabin 73381. The appendix 
volume is not present. Generally quite clean, foxing to a few pages and 
some offsetting of the illustrations to the text. Cloth a bit soiled and 
faded but solid. Very Good or better. (#020269)        $600

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