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Sir William Edward Parry (1790-1855)
Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage ... performed in the years 1819-20, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper, London: William Clowes for John Murray, 1821. 4° (260 x 212mm.). 26 engraved plates, charts or maps including 9 aquatint plates and 4 folding maps or charts. (Repaired tears to folding maps and charts, small tears to title and two following leaves, some light soiling.) Modern calf-backed marbled boards. FIRST EDITION, here without 'A Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry's voyage'. Cf. Arctic Bibliography 13145; Sabin 58860.
With 4 other books of related interest, Edward Sabine's The North Georgia Gazette, and Winter Chronicle (London, 1821, illustrated above, with inserted manuscript material from Parry and a note recording the gift of the work from Frederick William Beechey to Richard Gwyn), William Parry's Journal of a Second Voyage (London, 1824, FIRST EDITION), the same author's Journal of a Third Voyage (London, 1826, FIRST EDITION), and Narrative of an Attempt to reach the North Pole (London, 1828, FIRST EDITION).
Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage ... performed in the years 1819-20, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper, London: William Clowes for John Murray, 1821. 4° (260 x 212mm.). 26 engraved plates, charts or maps including 9 aquatint plates and 4 folding maps or charts. (Repaired tears to folding maps and charts, small tears to title and two following leaves, some light soiling.) Modern calf-backed marbled boards. FIRST EDITION, here without 'A Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry's voyage'. Cf. Arctic Bibliography 13145; Sabin 58860.
With 4 other books of related interest, Edward Sabine's The North Georgia Gazette, and Winter Chronicle (London, 1821, illustrated above, with inserted manuscript material from Parry and a note recording the gift of the work from Frederick William Beechey to Richard Gwyn), William Parry's Journal of a Second Voyage (London, 1824, FIRST EDITION), the same author's Journal of a Third Voyage (London, 1826, FIRST EDITION), and Narrative of an Attempt to reach the North Pole (London, 1828, FIRST EDITION).
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