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Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. Volume 1. (Arctic Ocean, Voyages, Exploration) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.
Verlag: Inktank-Publishing
ISBN 10: 375091611XISBN 13: 9783750916111
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Verlag: Echo Library 17 J, 2006
ISBN 10: 1847023959ISBN 13: 9781847023957
Anbieter: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Vereinigtes Königreich
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London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1825. Edition originale. Un volume in-8: 14 x 21,5 cm. xvi pp. [Preface, Original Instructions], 198 pp. [1], avec une carte dépliante et sept gravures hors-texte. Reliure contemporaine en demi-maroquin noir, plats recouverts de papier marbré, dos lisse aux fleurons et filets dorés, pièce de titre en maroquin olive, lettres en capitales dorées. Ex-libris manuscrit en début d'ouvrage. Papier uniformément roussi, quelques salissures éparses, des mouillures discrètes en bas des gravures, sinon livre complet de toutes ses illustrations et en bon état, très élégant dans sa reliure. Après avoir participé au deuxième voyage de Parry (en 1821-1823), le capitaine Lyon (1796-1832) reçoit en 1824 le commandement du HMS Griper avec pour mission de poursuivre l'exploration du Passage du Nord-Ouest, dans le cercle arctique. Les instructions de l'Amirauté portaient qu'il devait atteindre Repulse Bay par la route qu'il jugerait la meilleure, avant d'explorer la côte le plus loin possible, au moins aussi loin que les expéditions précédentes. Mais terriblement malmené par les vents, pris dans les glaces, le navire fut obligé de renoncer à sa mission et de rentrer en Angleterre, en piteux état et non sans avoir perdu ses ancres. L'ouvrage, paru en 1825, vise à dédouaner son auteur de toute responsabilité dans l'échec, mais il décrit aussi parfaitement la géographie des lieux, ainsi que la vie des populations indigènes (les Inuits). (Arctic Bibliography, II, p. 1571, No 10530).
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 1108071007ISBN 13: 9781108071000
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - First published in 1825, this work traces British naval officer George Lyon's abortive voyage to the Canadian Arctic in 1824.
Verlag: John Murray, 1825
Anbieter: Prior Books Ltd, Cheltenham, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Half leather hardback with gilt lettered spine and marbled paper cover boards. Firm and square, strong joints, just mildly sunned and rubbed. Contents age toned but tight and clean. No pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Size: 230mm x 150mm; collation: pp. xvi, 198, [i, plate list], complete with folding engraved map and seven engraved plates. Describes Southampton Island and its natives. A very good copy. Refs: Arctic Bibliography 10534.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1825
Anbieter: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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London, William Clowes for John Murray, 1825. 8vo. Contemporary English half calf gilt over marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece; pp. xvi, 198, [2 (list of plates, imprint on verso)]; one engraved folding map by J. Walker after E.N. Kendall, 6 engraved plates by Edward Finden after Lyon and Kendall, one engraved diagram, and wood-engraved illustrations and letterpress tables in the text; extremities very lightly rubbed and bumped causing minimal surface loss at corners, some variable, generally light, offsetting or spotting, nonetheless a fresh copy in a contemporary binding. First edition. The naval officer and explorer Lyon (1795-1832), joined Sir William Parry's second expedition to search for the North-West Passage, taking command of HMS Hecla. This expedition 'entered the Arctic region through Hudson Strait, examined Repulse Bay and the neighbouring coast of Melville peninsula, and wintered at a small island to the eastward of the Frozen Strait. The next summer they went further north and entered Fury and Hecla Strait, but the season being then far advanced they turned back, wintered at Igloolik (lat. 69°21' N, long. 81°44' W), and came home in autumn 1823, as signs of scurvy among the crew made it inadvisable to stay' (ODNB). Lyon was advanced to captain on 13 November 1823, and his narrative The Private Journal of Captain G.F. Lyon ⦠during the Recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry was issued in 1824. In the same year, Lyon took command of HMS Griper (which had participated in Parry's first voyage of 1819), with instructions 'to reach Repulse Bay by whatever route he judged best, and from it to examine the coast of the mainland westward to the point where John Franklin's voyage had ended its survey' (op. cit.) -- however, the expedition was frustrated by the unfavourable weather conditions and forced to return. Lyon published his account of the expedition in 1825 in the present work, which is prefaced by his official instructions from the Admiralty and Earl Bathurst, and concludes with an appendix by Professor Peter Barlow of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich on the magnetic variation recorded by the expedition and anomalies in those records; a tabular 'Abstract of the Days' Work'; and a 'Botanical Appendix' by Sir William Jackson Hooker, which describes 53 species collected by Lyon. A Brief Narrative is also notable for the information it gives on the indigenous peoples Lyon encountered - Hill comments that he 'gives interesting accounts of the Eskimos of the Southampton Islands, immediately north of Hudson's Bay' - and one of the plates is of 'Esquimaux Likenesses', with six portraits by Lyon. Arctic Bibliography 10530; Chavanne 4797; Field 962; Hill (2004) 1055; Lowndes p. 1422; Sabin 42851; Staton and Tremaine 1324.
London: John Murray 1825. 8vo. pp. xvi, 198, [2]. folding engraved map (frontis.), 7 engraved plates, & 2 text illus. A fine copy in half diced russia. First Edition of Lyon's narrative of his voyage in the Griper in 1824 in quest of the north-west passage by way of Hudson's Bay. Lyon managed to penetrate into Roes Welcome midway between Wager Inlet and Repulse Bay, before he was driven back by bad weather. He here enumerates the difficulties encountered and provides interesting observations on the Esquimaux of the Southampton Islands, immediately north of Hudson's Bay. The appendix to the narrative includes botanical researches by W.J.Hooker (describing fifty-three species, mostly from the Southampton Islands), and notes by E.N.Kendall on the magnetic errors of the crew's compasses. The plates were engraved by Edward Finden after drawings by Lyon and Kendall. Arctic Bib. 10530. Field 962. Hill p. 186. Lande 1292. Sabin 42851. TPL 1324.
Verlag: John Murray. London 8vo, 1825
Anbieter: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, Vereinigtes Königreich
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pp. xvi, 198, (i) List of Plates, (i) Imprint. Folding engraved map by J. WALKER at the front, 6 engraved plates by EDWARD FINDEN, after drawings by Lyon, 1 plate of geometrical diagrams. New half calf and cloth boards, plates somewhat offset to text, one small marginal mark affecting a few leaves, one leaf with a brown mark, occasional foxing of the plates, overall a very good copy with the signature of WM. TAYLOR 1825 on title. *With a detailed Abstract of the Days' Works, and a Botanical Appendix [pp.87-198] by Professor [WILLIAM JACKSON] HOOKER. The William Taylor who has signed the title-page could be one of the two such-named crew members of Cook's final voyage. He was still living in 1825, though I have not been able to verify the signature. SEE - The Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy' (Occasional Publication of the Navy Records Society: 1994) by Syrett and DiNardo. ALSO - William Taylor (1) - 'Biographia Navalis John Charnock AND for William Taylor (2) - 'Naval Biographical Dictionary': O'Byrne (3 vols.,London: 1849).
Verlag: John Murray, London, 1825
Anbieter: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. xvi, 198 p. 22 cm. Fold-out map at front. 7 engraved plates. Half leather with green marbled boards. Rebacked with original spine laid on. Corners darkened. Nautical bookplate on front pastedown along with plate for Louisa Dorothea Hopetoun. Foxing to first pages and map. Some offsetting from plates. Lyon's official report of his important expedition, most of which concerns his relations with the Inuit, with whom he was on excellent terms. Also a narrative of his voyage, a description of Southampton Island and its natives, notes on tides in Roes Welcome Sound and on compass variation. Arctic bibliography 10530. TPL 1324. Field 962. Sabin 42851. Decker 22:265. Hill 1055.
Verlag: John Murray, London, 1825
Anbieter: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. 8vo. [3], iv-xvi, [1], 2-198, [6] pp. Half later green calf over marbled boards with the spine in six compartments, gilt lettering and gilt anchors on the spine, two red morocco labels lettered in gilt on the spine; top edge gilt. Later marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Binding done by J. MacDonald of New York. Illustrated with a fold-out map and with seven plates, drawn by Lyon himself and then engraved. Arctic Bibliography 10530. Field 962. Hill 1055. Lyon's official report provides information on the Inuit peoples of Southampton Island (the island is just north of Hudson Bay), including their engineering techniques for boatbuilding, burial customs, and the report contains an anatomical plate. Lyon's attempt to reach the Northwest passage was ultimately a failure. The corners gently rubbed through, the joints and the gutters are neatly strengthened, a small corner dampspot on a few plates.
Verlag: London John Murray, 1825
Anbieter: Shapero Rare Books, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First edition. 8vo, xi, 198, [i] pp., engraved folding map, 6 engraved plates, uncut in original drab boards, rebacked with calf, new endpapers, a very good example. Lyon's official account of a search for a Northwest Passage by Hudson Bay. The narrative of the voyage as far as Wager Inlet and Repulse Bay also contains information about Southampton Island and the Eskimos of the region, with whom Lyon was on excellent terms. With a botanical appendix by Sir J. D. Hooker. Arctic Bibliography 10530; Hill 1055; Sabin 42851.
Verlag: John Murray, London, 1825
Anbieter: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio, ABAA, Tuxedo, NY, USA
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First edition. 21 cm; xvi, 198, [2] pages, and [7] leaves of copper-engraved plates, folding map. Bound in contemporary green polished calf over marbled boards, ruled in gilt, by Henry Young. Gilt tooling on spine. Color faded from spine and from top edge of upper board. Fine condition. References: Arctic Bib. 10530; Lande 1292; Sabin 42851. Narrative of search for the Northwest Passage through the Hudson Bay; observations on Southampton Island, Eskimos, tides, and compass variations. George Francis Lyon, one of Barrow's favorites, had made a name for himself in the exploration of Africa before serving as commander of the HMS Hecla during William Edward Parry's second Arctic voyage. Thereafter, in the spring of 1824 Lyon was given command of the sluggish and cranky HMS Griper, with orders to winter in Repulse Bay, in northwest Hudson Bay, and then cross Melville Peninsula to explore the northern coast of mainland America. Ice conditions were difficult, however, and he was unable to even reach Repulse Bay, and had to return home that same Fall. He was never given another naval command.
Verlag: London: John Murray, 1825., 1825
Anbieter: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Kanada
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8vo. pp. xvi, 198, [2]. folding engraved map (frontis.), 7 engraved plates, & 2 text illus. A fine copy in modern half calf (plates offset). First Edition of Lyon's narrative of his voyage in the Griper in 1824 in quest of the north-west passage by way of Hudson's Bay. Lyon managed to penetrate into Roes Welcome midway between Wager Inlet and Repulse Bay, before he was driven back by bad weather. He here enumerates the difficulties encountered and provides interesting observations on the Esquimaux of the Southampton Islands, immediately north of Hudson's Bay. The appendix to the narrative includes botanical researches by W.J.Hooker (describing fifty-three species, mostly from the Southampton Islands), and notes by E.N.Kendall on the magnetic errors of the crew's compasses. The plates were engraved by Edward Finden after drawings by Lyon and Kendall. Arctic Bib. 10530. Field 962. Hill p. 186. Lande 1292. Sabin 42851. TPL 1324.
Verlag: TREDITION CLASSICS, 2011
ISBN 10: 3842473559ISBN 13: 9783842473553
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. 256 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: HardPress Publishing, 2019
ISBN 10: 1407602764ISBN 13: 9781407602769
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 286.
Verlag: Dodo Press 31 A, 2007
ISBN 10: 1406541079ISBN 13: 9781406541076
Anbieter: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole (Dodo Pre This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
Verlag: LEGARE STREET PR, 2022
ISBN 10: 1017285578ISBN 13: 9781017285574
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Gebunden. Zustand: New.
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 1108070779ISBN 13: 9781108070775
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - A first-hand account, published in 1828, of one of the earliest attempts to reach the North Pole.
Verlag: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC, 2021
ISBN 10: 1014410274ISBN 13: 9781014410276
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New.
Verlag: Palala Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 1356990436ISBN 13: 9781356990436
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.
Verlag: John Murray, 1831
Anbieter: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, Vereinigtes Königreich
engraved frontispieces to each volume and plates throughout, uniformly a little toned, but a very good copy, untrimmed, 5 vols, pp. xvi, 310, 2; viii, 320; vii, [1], 328; viii, 322, [2]; vii, [1], 300, first and fourth vols with final ad leaves in contemporary red cloth, paper spine labels, spines and extremities sunned, A very attractive set of Sir William Parry's account of his three voyages to the Northwest Passage, which were undertaken between 1819 and 1825. Parry's first voyage coincided with an unusually ice-free winter, which enabled him to traverse channels previously believed to be landlocked. Although the later expeditions - in more seasonally traditional weather - did not see him replicate his success, 'the immediate achievements of these voyages were the charting of hundreds of miles of coastline in the Canadian Arctic archipelago and the collecting of valuable data on Arctic natural history' (Hill). Indeed, these volumes are full of such detail; Parry records treacherous conditions, outlines meteorological phenomena such as the Aurora Borealis - and records bird and plant specimens previously unknown in Europe. His interactions with Eskimaux, in particular, are extensively documented. The fine frontispiece plates, engraved by Edward Finden, show the Hecla and Griper in various remote and unforgiving landscapes, Eskimaux children dancing, and a portrait of Parry in uniform. (Sabin 58871 (for the New York edition, published by Harper & Brothers)).
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2015
ISBN 10: 1332036651ISBN 13: 9781332036653
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 334 | Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: [Both] London: John Murray, 1825
Anbieter: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, Vereinigtes Königreich
Two volumes bound in one, second and first editions respectively. 8vo. xii, 468; xvi, 198, (2) pp. Later half calf over marbled boards, twin gilt lettered black labels. Frontispieces, 6 and 7 plates respectively plus a folding map in each work. The first edition of the first work appeared the year before.
Verlag: John Murray, London, 1829
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Six volumes in three. 16mos. Illustrated with an engraved folding map and 12 engraved plates. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt decorated spines with leather titling labels. Small owner's name in ink on front free endpapers (dated 1853). Spanish bookseller's ticket on rear pastedowns. Moderate wear at the edges of the boards and corners, spine lettering a little faded, intermittent light toning, an attractive very good set. The first collected edition of Parry's Arctic voyages, including the sixth volume, which was not originally planned for the set. *Sabin* 58869.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1828
Anbieter: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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London, John Murray, 1828 and 1829. Six volumes, 12mo in 8s (151 x 97mm; volume VI a little bit smaller, as issued). Original publisher's cloth with printed paper labels to spines; 13 steel-engraved plates and engraved folding map; cloth a little marked and discoloured in places, corners slightly bumped, one label chipped with loss of author's name; only occasional spotting and offsetting, a very good set, partly unopened, in the rarely seen original binding. First collected edition of Parry's three voyages in search of a North-West Passage, rarely found with the sixth volume, not intended initially but published a year later and uniformly. In 1819 the young lieutenant W.E. Parry (1790-1855) was appointed to lead an expedition composed of the bomb-vessel HMS Hecla and brig HMS Griper to search for the North-West Passage: 'His instructions, which were necessarily conditional and vague, were to go up the west side of Baffin Bay, through Lancaster Sound (which [Captain John] Ross had reported land-locked), and so, if possible, to Bering Strait. After a clear run westward through Lancaster Sound he reached Melville Island (one of the later named Parry Islands) and wintered there, hoping to resume the voyage in the following season. This aim was frustrated by pack ice' (ODNB). However, the two ships returned safely, arriving in the Thames in November 1820, with a great deal of important scientific material, although Parry's dispatches had reached the Admiralty before him, since they had been sent ahead with a whaler returning to Britain. On 4 November 1820, when his dispatches reached London, Parry 'was promoted to the rank of commander. He received the freedom of his native city [Bath] and many other honours; in the following February he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society and, with the officers and men of the expedition, he received the parliamentary grant previously offered as a reward for those who should first pass the meridian of 110° W within the Arctic circle. Parry's care for his men, his solution of many of the problems of wintering in the ice, and his meticulous scientific work set a pattern of Arctic exploration for a generation. Many of his young officers (notably James Clark Ross) went on to be famous explorers themselves (loc. cit.). The success of this first expedition led to a second with HMS Fury and HMS Hecla, which departed Britain in May 1821 and travelled through the Hudson Strait and Foxe Channel, surveyed Repulse Bay, spent a winter at Winter Island and a second winter at Igloolik, and traversed Fury and Hecla Strait to its western end, before returning to England in 1823. In 1824, Parry left Deptford once more with HMS Fury and HMS Hecla, on his third expedition: 'again attempting the passage by Lancaster Sound, he wintered at Port Bowen. On 1 August 1825 both ships were forced ashore in Prince Regent inlet, and, though they were refloated, it was found necessary to abandon the Fury. All the men were put on board the Hecla, but there was no room for the stores, and Parry accordingly returned to England forthwith' (loc. cit.). The narratives of these three major Arctic expeditions were all published separately by John Murray with the authority of the Admiralty in quarto format as Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1819-20, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper [--A Supplement .] (1821-1824); Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage . Performed in the Years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's Ships Fury and Hecla [--Appendix .] (1824-1825); and Journal of a Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage . Performed in the Years 1824-25, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Fury (1826). The present compact edition collected the narratives of the three voyages for the first time, and the text was abridged in order to exclude the specialised scientific findings of the expeditions 'which are uninviting to the general reader', but equally sought 'to record every fact and transaction of importance, without omitting the name even of any single Cape, Bay, Strait, or the notice of any accession, however slight, to our general and geographical knowledge' (I, pp. ii-iii). A sixth, supplementary volume, Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, which narrated his 1827 expedition to the North Pole -- during which Parry achieved a farthest north of 82°43' -- was issued by Murray in a uniform format in 1829. This journey, here uniformly published together with the three previous Arctic journeys set a new record. 'In April 1826 Parry had proposed to the first lord an attempt to reach the pole from Spitsbergen by travelling with sledge-boats over the ice or through any spaces of open water. The proposal was referred to the Royal Society, on whose approval he was appointed again to the Hecla and sailed from the Nore on 4 April 1827. The ship was secured in Treurenberg Bay and on 21 June the boats started under Parry's command. After an exhausting struggle across wet and broken ice floes they turned back when Parry realized from his observations that the ice was drifting south almost as fast as they could travel north. His furthest north (lat. 82°43Ê 32â N) stood as a record for nearly fifty years' (ODNB). Sabin 58869. Provenance: Contemporary ownership inscription C. H. Cruttwell in ink to front fly-leaves of the first five volumes.
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 1108071716ISBN 13: 9781108071710
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This two-volume 1884 work describes a doctor and naturalist's polar voyages with William Parry, James Clark Ross and Edward Belcher.
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 1108072062ISBN 13: 9781108072069
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This two-volume 1884 work describes a doctor and naturalist's polar voyages with William Parry, James Clark Ross and Edward Belcher.
Verlag: CAMBRIDGE, 2014
ISBN 10: 1108071724ISBN 13: 9781108071727
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Zustand: New. Originally published in 1884 and illustrated with his maps and drawings, this two-volume work by the doctor and naturalist Robert McCormick (1800-90) describes polar voyages with William Parry and James Clark Ross. McCormick also discusses his part in the s.
Verlag: London. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Irvington. 1884, 1884
Anbieter: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Kanada
sm4to, 24.7cm, The First Edition, in 2 volumes, xx,432 & xii,412pp., plus 37 tinted lithographed plates (inc.5 folding, mainly views but including portraits) plus 5 tinted litho. maps (1 folding), plus 24 plates from engravings and 43 text illustrations from engravings, in contemporary half blue black morocco grain calf, gilt ruled raised bands, double crushed crimson and green morocco labels, blue/green marbled boards and matched endpapers, top edges gilt, two bookplates (1 engrave armorial plate for William E. Kelley & 1 Ex-Libris - James Douglas), expertly (nearly invisible) rebacked, a fine set attractively bound. (cgc). Arctic Bib. 10582. Spence 747. Taurus 10; Rosove 221.A1, first edition, pp262-264. (See below). - Of considerable Antarctic interest as well as Arctic. McCormick was with James Clark Ross' 1839-43 Antarctic expedition in Erebus' and Terror', and here gives the only first hand-published narrative of that expedition other than that of Ross. He had earlier been with Parry's fourth expedition toward the north pole, 1827, and was later with Belcher's 1852-54 Franklin search expedition, and gives a lengthy account of both. Only 750 sets were produced and apparently many were lost. The large lithographed panoramas of the great ice barrier in the Ross Sea and the coastline of Victoria Land [McCormick] convey 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" Comments first edition. McCormick served as the surgeon during Ross' 1839-43 Antarctic expedition and, although written many years later, his narrative of that remarkable expedition is an important source as it draws from his own diaries penned at the time. The work also covers his other polar expeditions: the first as the surgeon on Parry's 1827 attempt to reach the North Pole and the other on a 1852-53 Franklin search expedition under his own command. As publication was arranged and paid for by McCormick himself, only 750 sets were produced according to Rosove. He also identifies 7 variant issues, the present set being variant E. M'Cormick was 84 when these memories were published and after five years less than 375 copies had sold. Variants in these attractive cloth bindings indicate that binding work was done in batches. Had a remainders been issued there would have been a number of fine copies on the market over the years, when in fact the reverse has been the case and one can safely assume the unbound sheets were destroyed. Sets in leather bindings would have been from the publishers. Truly fine set would be extremely rare. We have only four records of this title (cat57-274), however, one was sold to Bert Plimer and years later appeared in the Plimer Catalogue 218. Our first copy came from the fabulous May Fluman collection we bought in c.1979. Also one them, in the very attractive pictorial blue cloth had call numbers on the spines. So really two sets previously.