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Sir Allen William Young (1830-1915)
The Two Voyages of the 'Pandora' in 1875 and 1876. London: William Clowes & Sons for Edward Stanford, 1879. 8° (245 x 172mm). 2 folding lithographic maps, printed in colours, in pockets at front and rear, 9 wood-engraved plates. (Neatly repaired tears to maps, some marginal browning to plates.) Original blue cloth, blocked in gilt and black (joints neatly repaired, spines somewhat soiled), modern cloth chemise, all within a blue morocco-backed cloth slip-case.
Rare. An account of Young's two voyages, in his own steam yacht, to Arctic waters. Young had served as Sailing Master of the Fox under McClintock in 1857 to 1859, and commanded the same vessel on the North Atlantic Telegraph Expedition of 1862. 'With the object of assisting the government Arctic expedition which set out in May 1875 under the command of George Nares, [Young] took his steam yacht Pandora to Baffin's Bay and picked up Nares' dispatches from the Carey Islands. He then tried to make the North West Passage but was stopped by heavy ice in Peel Strait. The next year, at the Admiralty's request, he again took the Pandora north and, in spite of difficulties, landed dispatches for Nares at Cape Isabella and Littleton Island, where he found good shelter in Pandora Harbour, but he again failed to gain any news of the other ships.' (Poulsom & Myres p.343). Young was one of only two or three people to be awarded both the Arctic Medal 1818-1855 and the Second Arctic Medal. Arctic Bibliography 19759.
[With:] Januarius Aloysius MACGAHAN (1844-1878). Under the Northern Lights. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1876. 8° (218 x 140mm). 40pp. publishers' advertisments at rear. 6 plates, folding tinted lithographic map, illustrations. (One plate loosely inserted.) Original green cloth, blocked in gilt and black (lightly affected by damp, small tear to front free endpaper). First edition of this account of the 1875-76 cruise of the 'Pandora'. Arctic Bibliography 10616. (2)
The Two Voyages of the 'Pandora' in 1875 and 1876. London: William Clowes & Sons for Edward Stanford, 1879. 8° (245 x 172mm). 2 folding lithographic maps, printed in colours, in pockets at front and rear, 9 wood-engraved plates. (Neatly repaired tears to maps, some marginal browning to plates.) Original blue cloth, blocked in gilt and black (joints neatly repaired, spines somewhat soiled), modern cloth chemise, all within a blue morocco-backed cloth slip-case.
Rare. An account of Young's two voyages, in his own steam yacht, to Arctic waters. Young had served as Sailing Master of the Fox under McClintock in 1857 to 1859, and commanded the same vessel on the North Atlantic Telegraph Expedition of 1862. 'With the object of assisting the government Arctic expedition which set out in May 1875 under the command of George Nares, [Young] took his steam yacht Pandora to Baffin's Bay and picked up Nares' dispatches from the Carey Islands. He then tried to make the North West Passage but was stopped by heavy ice in Peel Strait. The next year, at the Admiralty's request, he again took the Pandora north and, in spite of difficulties, landed dispatches for Nares at Cape Isabella and Littleton Island, where he found good shelter in Pandora Harbour, but he again failed to gain any news of the other ships.' (Poulsom & Myres p.343). Young was one of only two or three people to be awarded both the Arctic Medal 1818-1855 and the Second Arctic Medal. Arctic Bibliography 19759.
[With:] Januarius Aloysius MACGAHAN (1844-1878). Under the Northern Lights. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1876. 8° (218 x 140mm). 40pp. publishers' advertisments at rear. 6 plates, folding tinted lithographic map, illustrations. (One plate loosely inserted.) Original green cloth, blocked in gilt and black (lightly affected by damp, small tear to front free endpaper). First edition of this account of the 1875-76 cruise of the 'Pandora'. Arctic Bibliography 10616. (2)
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