Author: PARRY, William Edward.
Title: 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. With an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations. 2nd edition.
Description: London, John Murray, 1821. 4to. Later half calf with old boards, spine gilt with black title-label. With 6 engraved charts (4 folding), 5 lithographed profils and 9 aquatint plates by W. Westall after Beechey. (8),XXIX,310,CLXXIX pp. First edition published the same year. - 'Parry had sailed to the Arctic under Sir John Ross on the controversial voyage of 1818. In the spring of 1819 Parry was appointed to the command of this expedition, Frederick William Beechey was a member of this party. Parry, reaching Lancaster Sound in July, sailed through, and explored and namend Barrow Strait, Prince Regent inlet, and Wellington Channel. Entering what has since been called Parry or Viscount Melville Sound in September, he reached longitude 110º West, thereby earning a reward of £ 5.000 that was offered by Parliament to the first ship's company that should attain that meridian. He also discovered Melville island and others of the Parry Islands. After being frozen in for ten months, the ships were released on August 10, 1820, but the ice prevented further progress westward, and Parry returned to England (Hill 1311). The first (and most succesful) of Parry's four voyages under his own command for the search for the Northwest passage. It was one of the most important voyages in the history of Arctic exploration. - A fine copy of a cornerstone book of Arctic Exploration. Arctic Bibl. 13145; Sabin 58860; TPL 1205; Stam, Books on ice, p.24; Howgego II, p.465.
Keywords: Arctic Jubileum cat. Pole
Title: 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. With an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations. 2nd edition.
Description: London, John Murray, 1821. 4to. Later half calf with old boards, spine gilt with black title-label. With 6 engraved charts (4 folding), 5 lithographed profils and 9 aquatint plates by W. Westall after Beechey. (8),XXIX,310,CLXXIX pp. First edition published the same year. - 'Parry had sailed to the Arctic under Sir John Ross on the controversial voyage of 1818. In the spring of 1819 Parry was appointed to the command of this expedition, Frederick William Beechey was a member of this party. Parry, reaching Lancaster Sound in July, sailed through, and explored and namend Barrow Strait, Prince Regent inlet, and Wellington Channel. Entering what has since been called Parry or Viscount Melville Sound in September, he reached longitude 110º West, thereby earning a reward of £ 5.000 that was offered by Parliament to the first ship's company that should attain that meridian. He also discovered Melville island and others of the Parry Islands. After being frozen in for ten months, the ships were released on August 10, 1820, but the ice prevented further progress westward, and Parry returned to England (Hill 1311). The first (and most succesful) of Parry's four voyages under his own command for the search for the Northwest passage. It was one of the most important voyages in the history of Arctic exploration. - A fine copy of a cornerstone book of Arctic Exploration. Arctic Bibl. 13145; Sabin 58860; TPL 1205; Stam, Books on ice, p.24; Howgego II, p.465.
Keywords: Arctic Jubileum cat. Pole
Price: EUR 1595.00 = appr. US$ 1733.52 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 13758
- Book number: 13758