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Lot 214
Sale 6330 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 8, 2025
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Live / Chicago
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[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. ROSS, John (1777-1856) and James Clark ROSS (1800-1862). Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833...Including the Reports of Commander, now Captain, James Clark Ross...and the Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole. London, A. W. Webster, 1835.
Large 4to (316 x 254 mm). 31 plates and maps, comprising: 5 maps and charts of which is one is printed in 2 colors, a folding engraved map partially hand-colored, and 25 plates of which 3 are color-printed mezzotints with touches of hand-coloring and 6 are hand-colored lithographs (some spotting chiefly at ends and to some uncolored plates, some offsetting from text to plates, small closed-tear repair to folding map, light marginal toning.) Original dark blue cloth, uncut (neatly rebacked with original spine preserved, endpapers renewed). Provenance: Alex Fitz-Gerald (stamp on title-page).
FIRST EDITION, RARE LARGE-PAPER "ROYAL ISSUE." Includes an interesting 2pp. list of terminology "used in icy seas." Abbey Travel 636; Arctic Bib. 14866; Chavanne 1450; Sabin 73381; TPL 1808.