8vo. With folding route map, 4 engraved plates & 2 folding lithographed panoramas (1 repaired at fold). (A few leaves soiled.) Modern calf. FIRST EDITION of the account of the failed 1818 attempt to cross the Arctic Ocean to Asia--the last such attempt by the Royal Navy. The expedition was under the command of David Buchan on the H.M.S. Dorothea and John Franklin on the H.M.S. Trent, Beechey served as second-in-command under Franklin. "This book is the standard account, written much later in Beechey's distinguished career" (Books on Ice 2.11). Arctic Bibliography 1230; Hill 97; Sabin 4349; TPL 1132.