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SIR WILLIAM EDWARD PARRY (1790-1855)
Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-1820, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper. London: William Clowes for John Murray, 1821. 4° (26 x 21cm.). 20 engraved plates, charts or maps (including 9 aquatint plates and 4 folding maps or charts). (Plate facing p.10 re-inserted, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary half morocco gilt (lightly soiled). Provenance: R.S. (contemporary crested monogram stamp).
FIRST EDITION. Parry's instructions "were to go up the west side of Baffin's Bay, through Lancaster Sound, and so, if possible, to Behring's Strait. He did not get as far as Behring's Strait, but he reached Melville Island. It was not until 1852 that McClure, coming from the opposite direction, and reaching a point on the north of Banks Land, which Parry had already seen and named, was able to connect the two positions by passing on foot across the ice, and show positively that the north-west passage was not blocked by ice." (DNB).
Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-1820, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper. London: William Clowes for John Murray, 1821. 4° (26 x 21cm.). 20 engraved plates, charts or maps (including 9 aquatint plates and 4 folding maps or charts). (Plate facing p.10 re-inserted, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary half morocco gilt (lightly soiled). Provenance: R.S. (contemporary crested monogram stamp).
FIRST EDITION. Parry's instructions "were to go up the west side of Baffin's Bay, through Lancaster Sound, and so, if possible, to Behring's Strait. He did not get as far as Behring's Strait, but he reached Melville Island. It was not until 1852 that McClure, coming from the opposite direction, and reaching a point on the north of Banks Land, which Parry had already seen and named, was able to connect the two positions by passing on foot across the ice, and show positively that the north-west passage was not blocked by ice." (DNB).