[TRAVEL]. ROSS (John). Appendix to the Narrative of a Second - Lot 253

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[TRAVEL]. ROSS (John). Appendix to the Narrative of a Second - Lot 253
[TRAVEL]. ROSS (John). 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. London, A. W. Webster, 1835. In-4°, red half morocco with long grain and corners, gilt fillet on the boards, spine with ornamented nerves, gilt edges (English binding of the time). ORIGINAL EDITION of this supplement to the work published in London the same year under the title Narrative... Seventeen lithographed plates, most of them in colour, including a portrait of the author by HART after FAULKNER in the frontispiece. Copy enriched with three additional natural history plates, lettered A, B and C, the first in colour. A few small foxing marks, notably on the portrait, a little more marked on a dozen leaves; wetness on the added plate B, but GOOD COPY. Abbey, Travel 636; Hill (2004) 1490; Sabin 77381, 73384; Artic Bibliography, 14873.
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