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    Reference 2668 (2474)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Parry, Capt.W.E
    Title Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; ...1819-20...in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper. With an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations
    Publishing Information London: John Murray, 1821.
    Description 2nd Edition, 1821: Full 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. Published by Authority of the Lord Commissioners of The Admiralty. xxix, folding chart, 310 pages, Appendicies i-clxxix appendix. Illlustrated, 20 plates plus charts, folding maps, all as called for. (Plate XIII as frontispiece rather than facing page 97). Leather covers with paper label to spine. Front cover detached, Previous Armorial owners bookplate on verso front cover, price in ink on title page, repair to chart of Baffins Bay, this chart has also been poorly folded. Age toning, foxing to pages as expected. Parry was given command of the Hecla and Griper for his first expedition of 1819, sailing up Baffin Bay and through Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait to the south side of Melville Island, encountering much less heavy ice than anticipated. The expedition over-wintered at Winter Harbour, on the south side of Melville Island. Freeze-up delayed Parry until August of 1820, but he was still able to continue west to Dundas Peninsula and south to Banks Island before turning to head home to England. Parry's voyage was to be recognised as one of the most important in the history of Arctic exploration. He proved that Lancaster Sound opened a passage to the west, he charted a vast area of the unknown Arctic and proved that it was possible to spend the winter north of the Arctic Circle without being in grave danger. He was also the first to reach 110 degrees west longitude, which earned him and his crew a cash reward of £5,000. [AB 13145]. The Journal, based on Parry's reports, appeared in 1821, after the rights had been bought by the publisher John Murray for the stunning amount of a 1000 guineas. In the same year this second, corrected, edition was published, followed by German, Dutch and French translations.
    Price £450.00
    Keywords Arctic, North Pole, signed, polar S1-Arc
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