Author: PARRY, William Edward.
Title: Reis ter ontdekking van eene noordwestelijke doorvaart, uit de Atlantische in de Stille Zee, gedaan in de jaaren 1819 en 1820 door de schepen The Hecla en The Griper. Uit het Engelsch.
Description: Amsterdam, Johannes van der Hey, 1822. Later half sprinkled calf, spine lettered in gilt. With engraved title-page with oval view of the ships The Hecla and The Griper (sl.soiled), folding aquatint plate depicting the Hecla and The Griper, folding plan of the harbour on Melville Island, and large folding map (ca. 34 x 64 cm) with hand-coloured routes. XII,333, (2) pp. First Dutch edition; first English edition of Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. London, 1821. -- '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 the rare Dutch edition. Cat. NHSM I, p.304-306; not in Tiele; Arctic Bibl. 13145; Sabin 58863; TPL 1206; Stam, Books on ice, p.24; Howgego II, p.465.

Keywords: Arctic Canada Dutch travel Jubileum cat. Pole