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SIR JAMES CLARK ROSS (1800-1862)
A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions during the years 1839-43. London: Spottiswoode & Shaw for John Murray, 1847. 2 volumes, 8° (213 x 136mm.) 8 tinted lithographic plates (1 folding), 8 engraved maps and charts (3 folding), wood-engraved illustrations. (Without 16pp. of publishers' advertisements at the end of vol.II, neat repairs to tears to folding plate in vol.I.) Contemporary half calf gilt.
FIRST EDITION. 'Ross's narrative is a cornerstone of the Antarctic literature and a monument to one of mankind's greatest expeditions of geographical and scientific exploration... [From among the plates] "Mount Sabine and Possession Island Discovered", "South Polar Barrier", "The Collision", and "The Erebus Passing through the Chain of Bergs" are indelible visual testimony to some of the most memorable events of the voyage. In particular, the nighttime image by [John E.] Davis of the Erebus approaching safety under the lee of towering bergs after the collision of the ships, joining the Terror, its light burning, is Antarctic seafaring drama at its highest' (Rosove). Abbey Travel II, 610; Ferguson 4636; Hocken p.135; Sabin 73367; Spence 993; Rosove 276.A1 ('Scarce'). (2)
A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions during the years 1839-43. London: Spottiswoode & Shaw for John Murray, 1847. 2 volumes, 8° (213 x 136mm.) 8 tinted lithographic plates (1 folding), 8 engraved maps and charts (3 folding), wood-engraved illustrations. (Without 16pp. of publishers' advertisements at the end of vol.II, neat repairs to tears to folding plate in vol.I.) Contemporary half calf gilt.
FIRST EDITION. 'Ross's narrative is a cornerstone of the Antarctic literature and a monument to one of mankind's greatest expeditions of geographical and scientific exploration... [From among the plates] "Mount Sabine and Possession Island Discovered", "South Polar Barrier", "The Collision", and "The Erebus Passing through the Chain of Bergs" are indelible visual testimony to some of the most memorable events of the voyage. In particular, the nighttime image by [John E.] Davis of the Erebus approaching safety under the lee of towering bergs after the collision of the ships, joining the Terror, its light burning, is Antarctic seafaring drama at its highest' (Rosove). Abbey Travel II, 610; Ferguson 4636; Hocken p.135; Sabin 73367; Spence 993; Rosove 276.A1 ('Scarce'). (2)
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