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ROBERT M'CORMICK (1800-1890)
Voyages of Discovery in the Antarctic and Antarctic Seas, and Round the World: being personal narratives of attempts to reach the North and South Poles; and of an open-boat expedition up the Wellington Channel in search of Sir John Franklin... in Her Majesty's Boat "Forlorn Hope," under the command of the author. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1884. 2 volumes, 8° (252 x 165mm.). Half-titles. 2 tinted lithographic portrait frontispieces, 64 plates and maps (comprising: 24 wood-engraved plates, 35 tinted lithographic plates (5 folding), 5 tinted lithographic maps (1 folding)). (Small ink scribbles in blank margins of pp.151 and 206 in vol.I, G8 in vol.I with upper outer corner torn and repaired.) Original blue cloth, blocked in black and gilt (spines somewhat discoloured with head and foot repaired).
FIRST EDITION. M'Cormick's work includes 'a first-hand account of the Ross expedition (1839-1843) by the surgeon aboard the 'Erebus'. With large lithographed panoramas of the great ice barrier in the Ross Sea and the coastline of Victoria Land he conveys the sense of awed wonder experienced by all aboard Ross' ships when the true enormity of the Antarctic continent revealed itself for the first time' (Taurus). Conrad p.61; Rosove 221.A1 ('Very scarce'); Spence 747; Taurus 10. (2)
Voyages of Discovery in the Antarctic and Antarctic Seas, and Round the World: being personal narratives of attempts to reach the North and South Poles; and of an open-boat expedition up the Wellington Channel in search of Sir John Franklin... in Her Majesty's Boat "Forlorn Hope," under the command of the author. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1884. 2 volumes, 8° (252 x 165mm.). Half-titles. 2 tinted lithographic portrait frontispieces, 64 plates and maps (comprising: 24 wood-engraved plates, 35 tinted lithographic plates (5 folding), 5 tinted lithographic maps (1 folding)). (Small ink scribbles in blank margins of pp.151 and 206 in vol.I, G8 in vol.I with upper outer corner torn and repaired.) Original blue cloth, blocked in black and gilt (spines somewhat discoloured with head and foot repaired).
FIRST EDITION. M'Cormick's work includes 'a first-hand account of the Ross expedition (1839-1843) by the surgeon aboard the 'Erebus'. With large lithographed panoramas of the great ice barrier in the Ross Sea and the coastline of Victoria Land he conveys the sense of awed wonder experienced by all aboard Ross' ships when the true enormity of the Antarctic continent revealed itself for the first time' (Taurus). Conrad p.61; Rosove 221.A1 ('Very scarce'); Spence 747; Taurus 10. (2)
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