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ROSS, JAMES CLARK. 1800-1862. A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions During the Years 1839-43. London: John Murray, 1847. image 1
ROSS, JAMES CLARK. 1800-1862. A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions During the Years 1839-43. London: John Murray, 1847. image 2
ROSS, JAMES CLARK. 1800-1862. A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions During the Years 1839-43. London: John Murray, 1847. image 3
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ROSS, JAMES CLARK. 1800-1862.
A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions During the Years 1839-43. London: John Murray, 1847.

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ROSS, JAMES CLARK. 1800-1862.

A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions During the Years 1839-43. London: John Murray, 1847.
2 volumes. 8vo. 8 tinted lithographed plates (one folding, with short tear), 8 engraved maps (3 folding), text illustrations. Publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, spines faded with wear to extremities, some spotting throughout (occasionally heavy to maps), without advertisements.
Provenance: John Cookson Jun. (Inscription dated 1850, Meldon Park bookplate).

FIRST EDITION. "One of the most important works in the history of Antarctic exploration" (Hill). James Ross led this expedition for the purpose of Antarctic discovery and magnetic surveys, during which he circumnavigated the Antarctic continent, discovering the Ross Sea, Ross Island, the Ross Shelf Ice, Victoria Land, Erebus and Terror Gulf, and attempted to enter the Weddell Sea. Abbey Travel 610; Conrad, p.61; Ferguson 4636; Hill 1487; Sabin 73367.

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