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ROSS (JAMES CLARK) A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the Years 1839-43, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, John Murray, 1847 image 1
ROSS (JAMES CLARK) A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the Years 1839-43, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, John Murray, 1847 image 2
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ROSS (JAMES CLARK)
A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the Years 1839-43, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, John Murray, 1847

14 September 2021, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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ROSS (JAMES CLARK)

A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the Years 1839-43, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 8 tinted lithographed plates (one folding), 8 engraved maps (3 folding), text illustrations, 16 pp. of advertisements (dated January 1847, earliest issue), occasional light spotting, publisher's blue-green pictorial cloth gilt, with the binding ticket of Edmonds & Redmond on rear paste-down endpaper of volume 1, some fading to spines with small abrasions at spine ends but generally a bright copy [Abbey Travel 610; Ferguson 4636; Hill 1487; Sabin 73367; Denucé 2467; Spence 993; Renard 1328; Conrad, p.61; Rosove 276.A1a ("scarce")], 8vo, John Murray, 1847

Footnotes

"This is one of the most important works in the history of Antarctic exploration" (Hill). The author, nephew of the Arctic explorer Sir John Ross, led this expedition for the purpose of Antarctic discovery and magnetic surveys, during which Antarctica was circumnavigated. Ross discovered what are now Ross Sea, Ross Island, the Ross Ice Shelf, Victoria Land, Erebus and Terror Gulf, and attempted to penetrate the Weddell Sea.

Provenance: James Frampton, armorial bookplate.

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