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MCCLURE, Robert (1807-1873). The Discovery of the North-west Passage by H.M.S. "Investigator," Capt. R. M'Clure. Edited by Sherard OSBORN. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856.
The first edition, recounting McClure's discovery of a Northwest Passage. In 1850 McClure took command of the Investigator, one of two ships sent to find the British explorer Sir John Franklin, missing in the North American Arctic since 1845. McClure entered the Bering Strait from the Pacific and found two entrances to the Northwest Passage around Banks Island, now part of the Northwest Territories of Canada. The Investigator became trapped in the ice of Mercy Bay just north of Banks Island, compelling McClure to abandon the ship; his party was rescued by two ships at nearby Melville Island. The rescue ships were in turn abandoned and McClure then continued north and east to meet Belcher's ships which had come in from the east, thus completing a transit of the Northwest Passage. For abandoning the ship, McClure was court-martialed, then honorably acquitted and finally knighted for his endeavors and given the 10,000 pound award as the discoverer of the Northwest Passage. Arctic Bib. 10563; Hill 1122; Lada-Mocarski 145; Sabin 43073; Tourville 2835; Wickersham 6682.
Octavo (225 x 141mm). Frontispiece and 3 other duotone lithographed plates; folding engraved map partially handcolored. 24-pg publisher's ads dated March 1856 at end. Original cloth, spine gilt-lettered, coated and printed endpapers (hinges reinforced, text block cracked in a few places). Provenance: J. Brown (bookplate over upper pastedown ads) – ABL Books.
The first edition, recounting McClure's discovery of a Northwest Passage. In 1850 McClure took command of the Investigator, one of two ships sent to find the British explorer Sir John Franklin, missing in the North American Arctic since 1845. McClure entered the Bering Strait from the Pacific and found two entrances to the Northwest Passage around Banks Island, now part of the Northwest Territories of Canada. The Investigator became trapped in the ice of Mercy Bay just north of Banks Island, compelling McClure to abandon the ship; his party was rescued by two ships at nearby Melville Island. The rescue ships were in turn abandoned and McClure then continued north and east to meet Belcher's ships which had come in from the east, thus completing a transit of the Northwest Passage. For abandoning the ship, McClure was court-martialed, then honorably acquitted and finally knighted for his endeavors and given the 10,000 pound award as the discoverer of the Northwest Passage. Arctic Bib. 10563; Hill 1122; Lada-Mocarski 145; Sabin 43073; Tourville 2835; Wickersham 6682.
Octavo (225 x 141mm). Frontispiece and 3 other duotone lithographed plates; folding engraved map partially handcolored. 24-pg publisher's ads dated March 1856 at end. Original cloth, spine gilt-lettered, coated and printed endpapers (hinges reinforced, text block cracked in a few places). Provenance: J. Brown (bookplate over upper pastedown ads) – ABL Books.