Price: £600
Subject: Travel & Topography
Published Date: 1831
Stock Number: 72066
(Your basket is currently empty)Five volumes. With Plates.
Description: engraved frontispieces to each volume and plates throughout, uniformly a little toned, but a very good copy, untrimmed, 5 vols, pp. xvi, 310, 2; viii, 320; vii, [1], 328; viii, 322, [2]; vii, [1], 300, first and fourth vols with final ad leaves in contemporary red cloth, paper spine labels, spines and extremities sunned,Publication Details: London: John Murray, 1831
Notes: A very attractive set of Sir William Parry's account of his three voyages to the Northwest Passage, which were undertaken between 1819 and 1825.Parry's first voyage coincided with an unusually ice-free winter, which enabled him to traverse channels previously believed to be landlocked. Although the later expeditions - in more seasonally traditional weather - did not see him replicate his success, 'the immediate achievements of these voyages were the charting of hundreds of miles of coastline in the Canadian Arctic archipelago and the collecting of valuable data on Arctic natural history' (Hil...more
Bibliography: (Sabin 58871 (for the New York edition, published by Harper & Brothers))
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