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ROSS (JOHN) Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage and of a Residence in the Arctic..., FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED, 1835 image 1
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ROSS (JOHN) Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage and of a Residence in the Arctic..., FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED, 1835 image 3
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ROSS (JOHN)
Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage and of a Residence in the Arctic..., FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED, 1835

7 – 15 July 2025, 12:00 BST
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ROSS (JOHN)

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, vo1. 1 only (without the Appendix), FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED "To Mrs Nicholson with the kindest regards of her affectionate cousin the "Author"" on the title-page, additional engraved portrait of the author bound as frontispiece, 25 engraved plates (9 hand-coloured), 5 engraved charts (2 folding, of which one hand-coloured), a couple of plates misbound, one loose (perhaps inserted from another copy), some spotting and off-setting, contemporary half calf, rebacked retaining the original gilt-tooled spine with gilt red morocco lettering label, rubbed [Abbey Travel 636; Hill 1490; Sabin 73381], 4to, A.W. Webster, 1835

Footnotes

Presentation copy of John Ross's second voyage "to search for the north-west passage in 1829–33. In a series of sledging journeys [Ross's nephew] James proved that Boothia was a peninsula, as the Inuit had told them, and not an island as John had hoped; and on 1 June 1831 the British flag was raised at the north magnetic pole" (Hill). Due to faults with the expedition's ship Victory the party spent a record four and a half years in the Arctic before being rescued.

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