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1824 ARCTIC Parry Voyages North Pole MAPS Northwest Passage Hecla Fury Ships
1824 ARCTIC Parry Voyages North Pole MAPS Northwest Passage Hecla Fury Ships
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1824 ARCTIC Parry Voyages North Pole MAPS Northwest Passage Hecla Fury Ships



William Parry was one of the first explorers to reach the North Pole and the Northwest Passage, best remembered for his personal accounts and journals of his expedition. His journals recount his interactions with Eskimos, navigations through fog and ice, viewing meteorological phenomena, and discovering new animals!



This collection of folding maps and plates are from Parrys Northwest Passage accounts, maps showing his voyage route, and charts of discovered islands. Notable views include:

Route of Fury and Hecla to the Northwest Passage

maps

Shorelines of Cape Resolution, Upper Savage Islands, Hudson Strait

Cape Welsford, Entrance of Duke of York Bay, Southampton Island, Cape Frigid

Cape Wilson, Island of Owlitteeweek, Barrow River, Islands of Ooglit, Bouverie Islands

Liddon Island, Cape Hallowell



Item number: #23934

Price: $950



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[London, John Murray] 1824. 1st edition



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

8 cloth-backed folding plates and maps

References: Wing C 374c; Allibone I, p.330

Language: English

Binding: Leather; tight and secure

Size: ~11in X 8.75in (27.5cm x 22cm)

RARE



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