Item #44889 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, Under the Orders of William Edward Parry, R.N., F.R.S., and Commander of the Expedition. With an Appendix Containing the Scientific and Other Observations. London: John Murray, 1821. [WITH] Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage From the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1821-22-23, in his Majesty's Ships Fury and Hecla, Under the Orders of Captain William Edward Parry, R.N., F.R.S., and Commander of the Expedition. Illustrated by Numerous Plates. William Edward Parry.
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, Under the Orders of William Edward Parry, R.N., F.R.S., and Commander of the Expedition. With an Appendix Containing the Scientific and Other Observations. London: John Murray, 1821. [WITH] Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage From the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1821-22-23, in his Majesty's Ships Fury and Hecla, Under the Orders of Captain William Edward Parry, R.N., F.R.S., and Commander of the Expedition. Illustrated by Numerous Plates.

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, Under the Orders of William Edward Parry, R.N., F.R.S., and Commander of the Expedition. With an Appendix Containing the Scientific and Other Observations. London: John Murray, 1821. [WITH] Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage From the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1821-22-23, in his Majesty's Ships Fury and Hecla, Under the Orders of Captain William Edward Parry, R.N., F.R.S., and Commander of the Expedition. Illustrated by Numerous Plates.

London: John Murray, 1821. Hardcover. Folio. Signed. Very Good. Item #44889

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, Under the Orders of William Edward Parry, R.N., F.R.S., and Commander of the Expedition. With an Appendix Containing the Scientific and Other Observations. London: John Murray, 1821. [WITH] Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage From the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1821-22-23, in his Majesty's Ships Fury and Hecla, Under the Orders of Captain William Edward Parry, R.N., F.R.S., and Commander of the Expedition. Illustrated by Numerous Plates. London: John Murray, 1824. First edition. Small 4to (8" x 10.5"). Half contemporary leather over marbled paper boards. Marbled edges and endpapers. Professionally rebacked with new complementary mottled calf spine and nautical gilt decoration to compartments, original label laid down. 1821 volume: xxix, 310 pp., clxxix. Folding map frontis. [20] engraved or aquatint maps and plates, including 4 folding maps, a few engraved illustrations in text. Errata before contents indicating "A Supplement to the Appendix, containing the Zoology, Botany, Geology, &c., of the Arctic Regions, will be published on the 1st of June." Pencil notations to list of plates. Folding chart to Appendix I. 1824 volume: xxx, 571 pp. [31] plates, [8] folding charts at rear. Cropping to fore edge of plate facing p. 198. Light wear to extremities of both volumes, some cracking to original leather. Bookplates to front pastedowns of British industrialist and philanthropist Sir Joseph Verdin, 1st Baronet. Bookseller ticket of Salomon S. Meyer, Amsterdam, to verso of ffeps. Sporadic foxing to interior, offsetting from plates. Very good overall. Having sailed to the Arctic as second in command under John Ross, Parry believed that Lancaster Sound could provide the opening to the western sea despite Ross's assertion that it was landlocked. In 1819 he was given command of the Hecla and Griper, and he sailed up Baffin Bay, through Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait to Melville Island. On this journey, he surveyed the south shores of the Barrow Strait, discovered Prince Regent's Inlet, and discovered and named twenty islands (including Banks and Somerset Islands). The channel to the west of Lancaster Sound, the opening to the North-West Passage, is also named for him. Parry's second of three voyages took him through the Hudson Strait in Hudson Bay and north. Besides journal entries, the narrative contains an explanation of technical terms, charts from meteorological tables, and chapters on Eskimo culture and language. Sabin 58860 and 58864; Holland pp. 185-86; Arctic Bibliography 13145; Hill, p. 225; Stanton and Tremaine 1295.

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