Description: Sir John Ross - 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. By ........ including the Reports of Commander, now Captain, James Clark Ross ...... and the Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole. London, Webster, 1835 (1st ed.) large 4to, xxiv,740pp.; List of 30 plates (instructions to binder) - all present here as called for. Of these 6 are charts, including the large coloured folding Chart of the Discoveries Made in the Arctic Regions and one other chart partly in colours. There are 15 uncoloured engraved plates, 2 in tints, 5 hand-coloured, a coloured sectional plate and a coloured ground plan. A handsome, tall copy, recased in the original navy cloth with gilt titles to spine, with no loss to cloth and retaining the original endpapers with matching paper reinforcement to hinges. Very light foxing to a few leaves and plates.
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Binding: Original cloth
Place of Publication: London
Non-Fiction Subject: Arctic exploration
Publisher: A. W. Webster
Weight: 3.3kg
Year Printed: 1835
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Region: North America
Author: Sir John Ross
Original/Reproduction: Original
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
