Parry on the search for the Northwest Passage
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Beskrivning
NORTHWEST PASSAGE. PARRY, WILLIAM EDWARD. Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, performed in the years 1819-1820, in his Majesty´s Ships Hecla and Griper. London (J. Murray) 1821.
4:o (about 267x210 mm.). (8 + tipped in errata leaf), (i)-xxix, (3), (1)-310 (lacks Appendix and Supplement to Appendix) pp. 6 partly folding engraved maps (some foxing), 14 engraved plates (all, some foxing, some offsetting from plates to text, some offsetting from text to plates).
New brown morocco binding, gilt borders, richly gilt spine. Minor foxing. Old preserved bookplate for Thomas Harvey R. N.
The volume contains the first edition of Parry´ s first voyage during which he explored the Strait of Lancaster and discovered the island of Melville and the straits of Wellington. Parry solved the problem of locating the entrance to the Northwest Passage and navigating through half of it and returning with new observations on meteorology and zoological and geological examples.
Auktionsnummer:
6170
Datum:
2016-06-21