8vo. With hand-colored engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved plates, 8 maps (6 folding), and 2 folding plates of coastal profiles. (1 map torn & repaired.) Contemporary black cloth (rebacked in modern black cloth). Provenance: Clerkenwell Public Library, London (bookplate & ink stamp on endpapers, frontispiece & most plates); Anthony R. Michaelis, polar scientist & explorer (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Weddell sailed further south than anyone before him and discovered the sea which is now named after him. This work is "interesting not only as the record of a voyage to what was then and for long after the highest southern latitude reached, but also as giving a survey of the South Shetlands, where many of the names--as 'Boyd's Straits,' 'Duff's Straits,' 'Sartoroius Island'--recall the names of the captains with whom Weddell had served" (DNB). Hill (2004) 1843; Rosove 345.A1; Spence 1246; Taurus Collection 4.