Appendix to the Narrative of a Second Voyage, 1835
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Author: Ross, John
Title: Appendix to the Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. Including the Reports of Commander, Now Captain, James Clark Ross and The Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole.
Place Published: London
Publisher:A. W. Webster
Date Published: 1835
Description:
Author: Ross, John
Title: Appendix to the Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. Including the Reports of Commander, Now Captain, James Clark Ross and The Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole.
Place Published: London
Publisher:A. W. Webster
Date Published: 1835
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xii, 120, cxliv, cii + 1 errata pp. 20 engraved and lithographed plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Ross (12 of the plates are colored or hand-tinted). (4to) 32x25 cm (12¼x9½"), modern grey cloth with original green spine label lettered in gilt laid down, new endpapers. First Edition.
Includes sections on the Boothian Eskimos and natural history, with many well-executed portraits and illustrations. Although produced to accompany the Narrative, the Appendix is much less common, and may have been printed in a smaller number.
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Light wear to cloth with rubbing to extremities and spine label, minor corner bump; scattered light foxing, becoming moderate to heavy on several leaves; very good.
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Appendix to the Narrative of a Second Voyage, 1835
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