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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, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827. 8° (217 x 133mm.) 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 the folding map facing p.1, aquatint plates browned or spotted.) Later half calf, spine gilt (scuffed).
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, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827. 8° (217 x 133mm.) 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 the folding map facing p.1, aquatint plates browned or spotted.) Later half calf, spine gilt (scuffed).
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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