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Lot 74

PARRY (WILLIAM EDWARD)
Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1819-20, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper

8 June 2010, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Footnotes

Parry led three voyages of exploration to the Arctic, their major acheivement being "the charting of hundreds of miles of coastline in the Canadian Arctic archipelago and the collecting of valuable data on Arctic natural history" (Hill). Hill notes that the supplement volume of natural history published in 1824 was "much rarer" than the voyage volumes themselves.

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