BARROW, John, Sir (1764-1848). Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic Regions; undertaken chiefly for the purpose of Discovering a North-East, North-West, or Polar Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific. London: John Murray, 1818

8vo. Half-title; folding engraved map. Later green cloth, red morocco lettering-piece gilt. Provenance: Edmond Robert Green (bookplate); collector's bookplate, a few pencil marks. FIRST EDITION. Barrow became Second Secretary of the Admiralty in 1816, where he sponsored the first Arctic expedition of John Ross with Edward Parry, and the Spitzbergen expedition of David Buchan and John Franklin of the same year. Also included are descriptions of earlier voyages by the Zeno brothers, the Cabots, Willoughby, Frobisher, Baffin, Fox, Middleton, Hearne, Phipps, Cook, and Kotzebue, and appended are Buchan's journal of his 1811 expedition and Lorenzo Maldonado's account of his supposed discovery of the Strait of Anian (i.e. North-West Passage). Not in Arctic Bibliography.

[With:] BARROW, John, Sir. An auto-biographical memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart... London: John Murray, 1847. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece. Later half morocco gilt (lightly rubbed). Provenance: W. Wilson (signature); collector's bookplate, a few pencil marks. [Tipped in:] Contemporary newspaper review of Barrow's autobiography -- "The Late Sir John Barrow, Bart., F.R.S., LL.D." 3pp. memorial about Barrow, Nov. 30th 1848. -- "John Christian Hüttner, Esq. 1p. memorial about Hüttner, London, June 4th, 1847.

BARROW, John, Sir (1764-1848). Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic Regions; undertaken chiefly for the purpose of Discovering a North-East, North-West, or Polar Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific. London: John Murray, 1818