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JAMES WEDDELL (1787-1834)
A Voyage towards the South Pole, performed in the years 1822-24. ... Second edition, with observations on the probability of reaching the South Pole, and an account of a second voyage performed by the Beaufoy, Captain Brisbane, to the same seas. London: A. & R.Spottiswoode for Longman, Rees, Orne, Brown and Green, 1827. 8° (215 x 130mm.) 17 plates and maps (comprising: handcoloured aquatint frontispiece, 6 uncoloured aquatint plates by Clark after Weddell (including 2 folding panoramic coastal profiles], 10 engraved maps and charts 6 folding). (Clean tears to two of the folding maps, 1 map shaved into image area.) Contemporary calf gilt (spine neatly repaired).
PROVENANCE:
G.E. Mannsell (armorial bookplate).
Second expanded edition, including Weddell's 'Observations' (with two maps) and Brisbane's voyage to Tierra del Fuego. Rosove 345.B1a ('Scarce'); Sabin 102431; cf. Spence 1248 (first edition).
A Voyage towards the South Pole, performed in the years 1822-24. ... Second edition, with observations on the probability of reaching the South Pole, and an account of a second voyage performed by the Beaufoy, Captain Brisbane, to the same seas. London: A. & R.Spottiswoode for Longman, Rees, Orne, Brown and Green, 1827. 8° (215 x 130mm.) 17 plates and maps (comprising: handcoloured aquatint frontispiece, 6 uncoloured aquatint plates by Clark after Weddell (including 2 folding panoramic coastal profiles], 10 engraved maps and charts 6 folding). (Clean tears to two of the folding maps, 1 map shaved into image area.) Contemporary calf gilt (spine neatly repaired).
PROVENANCE:
G.E. Mannsell (armorial bookplate).
Second expanded edition, including Weddell's 'Observations' (with two maps) and Brisbane's voyage to Tierra del Fuego. Rosove 345.B1a ('Scarce'); Sabin 102431; cf. Spence 1248 (first edition).
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