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[JAMES CLARK ROSS (1800-1862)]
Ships Erebus and Terror. Extracts from the Despatch of Captain James Ross, from Van Dieman's Land, showing the Nature and Extent of the Discoveries made in a high Southern Latitude by Her Majesty's Ships Erebus and Terror. [London:] Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 6 September 1841. 2° (320 x 210mm). 4pp. one handcoloured folding lithographic map by John Arrowsmith, printed by James & Luke J. Hansard. (Map shaved along upper margin with loss to titling but not affecting image area.) Disbound. FIRST EDITION of the first published report of Ross's discovery of the Antarctic continent. Conrad p.61; Rosove 275.A1; Spence 992
Ships Erebus and Terror. Extracts from the Despatch of Captain James Ross, from Van Dieman's Land, showing the Nature and Extent of the Discoveries made in a high Southern Latitude by Her Majesty's Ships Erebus and Terror. [London:] Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 6 September 1841. 2° (320 x 210mm). 4pp. one handcoloured folding lithographic map by John Arrowsmith, printed by James & Luke J. Hansard. (Map shaved along upper margin with loss to titling but not affecting image area.) Disbound. FIRST EDITION of the first published report of Ross's discovery of the Antarctic continent. Conrad p.61; Rosove 275.A1; Spence 992
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