Search Results: narrative of a second voyage in by ross sir john

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1835. Hardcover. Acceptable. Poor condition. Reading copy only. Philadelphia and Baltimore, 1835. Paper covered boards with cloth spine; external hinges split; front board has pulled away from spine and rear board nearly detached; heavy wear to covers; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; bookplate on front pastedown; school library stamp on free front endpaper; pages toned and foxed; uneven edges; no maps or plates; no internal markings; 456 pages.

Paris 1835 Baudry's European Library. Hardcover. Octavo., 475pp., 2 steel plates, newly professionally rebound in 3/4 soft light brown leather leather with gilt decorations and lettering on spine. Binding is attractive and in Fine condition; internally VG plus, leaves cropped a bit (margin only, not affecting text); clean; binding very secure. No ownership marks. Excellent condition. .

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Carey, Hart & Company. Hardcover. Acceptable. Rebound Hardcover. 456 pp. Corner, edge and cover wear/bumping. Shelf wear. Interior pages are age tanned/stained, but clean. Map in front of book, has tearing and creasing.

E-176: E. L. Carey. Good. 1835. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. E. L. Carey & A. Hart, Philadelphia, PA. 1835. Xxii, 456 pgs. Illustrated with a hand-colored folding map. Bound in 19th century full calf leather with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (boards are chipped and worn). Ex-library item with bookplate present to the reverse of the front board, previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In 1829, frustrated by the lack of progress in search of a northwest passage, a philanthropic gin distiller, Felix Booth, sponsored John Ross's second expedition. With his nephew James Clark Ross as second-in-command, Ross sailed down Prince Regent Sound in search of an opening to the west. The two Rosses mapped James Ross Strait and parts of King William Island and in 1831 James located the Magnetic North Pole. The Ross expedition then disappeared in the ice-bound Gulf of… Read More

London: A. W. Webster, 1835. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Half-leather. Complete with 30 charts and plates, including three color lithographs. Leather spine is chipped, plates are moderately foxed.

London: A.W. Webster. 1835. Hard Cover. Fair. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. . USO-This large hardcover is in fair condition. Spine repairs. Pages have foxed. NO overseas shipments on this title, insurance is required. ORIGINAL, NOT a reprint or ex-lib etc. plain tan spine.

London: A.W. Webster, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 4to. [7], ii-xxxiii, [2], 2-740 pp. Recent half blue buckram over marbled boards with a recent black morocco label lettered and ruled in silver on the spine. Recent endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a folding chart at the beginning and one at the end of the volume, and with 27 plates. Our copy's plates, titles, imprints, and contents correspond with Abbey's entry except Abbey calls out a few plates as colour lithographs, and ours are done in black and white (Andrewross Island, Ikmalick and Apelagliu, Shulanina, Umingmak, Somerset House, and Ground Plan of Somerset House all in black and white). The three mezzotints and two colored charts in our copy correspond to Abbey's entry. Without the separately printed appendix volume. With all plates called-for present. Abbey 636. Arctic Bibliography 14866. Hill 1490. With descriptions of the Inuit peoples living on the Boothia Peninsula. In this volume Ross discusses… Read More

1835 ARCTIC Voyage 1ed John Ross Narrative North-West Passage Inuit Eskimos Maps

John Ross was a notable British explorer known for his Arctic and Antarctic explorations. After a brief, but successful voyage to the north in 1818, Ross and his crew undertook a more extensive second Arctic expedition in 1829. It was on this four-year adventure that Ross encountered Inuit tribes, reached the true North Magnetic Pole, charted new islands, and noted impressive geographical and meteorological phenomena.

According to Field,
"wonderfully interesting narrative of human endurance, triumphing over the most awful peril and suffering. The sumptuous printing which makes every page a picture has even its luxury enhanced by the splendid steel engravings and lithographs. The former are so excellent as to be worthy of preservation as gems of art."

Item number: #24793
Price: $950

ROSS, Sir John

Narrative of a second voyage in search of a North-West Passage, and of a residence in the Arctic regions during the… Read More

London: A.W. Webster, 156, Regent Street, 1835. First Edition. Illustrated. [8], xxxiii, [1], 740 pp. 1 vols. Thick 4to. Half modern green morocco and cloth sides. Fine. First Edition. Illustrated. [8], xxxiii, [1], 740 pp. 1 vols. Thick 4to. "In 1829, frustrated by the lack of progress [in search of a northwest passage], a philanthropic gin distiller, Felix Booth, sponsored John Ross's second expedition. With his nephew James Clark Ross as second-in-command, Ross sailed down Prince Regent Sound in search of an opening to the west. The two Rosses mapped James Ross Strait and parts of King William Island and in 1831 James located the Magnetic North Pole. The Ross expedition then disappeared in the ice-bound Gulf of Boothia until 1833" (Goetzman & Williams, 186). A "wonderfully interesting narrative of human endurance, triumphing over the most awful peril and suffering. The sumptuous printing which makes every page a picture has even its luxury enhanced by the splendid steel engravings and… Read More

London: A.W. Webster, 156, Regent Street, 1835. First Edition. Large hand colored map, 30 plates and charts (9 hand-colored). [8], xxxiii, [1], 740 pp. 1 vols. Thick 4to (12 x 9-1/2 inches). Later full tree calf gilt, spine gilt with russet morocco labels, marbled endpapers and edges, wear at corners, covers a bit bowed. Provenance: armorial bookplate; Michael Sharpe (morocco booklabel). First Edition. Large hand colored map, 30 plates and charts (9 hand-colored). [8], xxxiii, [1], 740 pp. 1 vols. Thick 4to (12 x 9-1/2 inches). First edition of the official account of Ross's privately-funded second Arctic voyage, resulting in the most extensive exploration of the Boothia Peninsula to date, during which Ross's nephew James Clark Ross became the first to reach the North Magnetic Pole. Two issues of the work are noted, a regular issue and a "royal" issue; the latter sometimes referred to as an "Admiralty" or large paper issue. Besides being in slightly larger format, this deluxe issue, which was more… Read More

London: A.W. Webster, 1835. First Edition. Very Good. In two volumes with Appendix to the Narrative, 4to [11x8.5in]; Vol. 1 - Narrative - [8], xxxiii, [1] binder notes for plates [large foldout chart], 740 pp., frontispiece engraving of Victoria Harbor, 25 plates of illustrations and diagrams (3 hand-colored) and 6 maps with two folding, addenda; Vol. 2 - Appendix - xii, 120 pp., cxliv, cii, [2], frontispiece engraving of Sir John Ross, 20 plates (12 hand-colored), collated complete including subscribers list and errata leaf; Later half red-brown calf with blind stamped edging and red-black marbled paper covers, five raised bands and gilt lettering on black field on spine; Some shelf wear to rubbed edges with corners bumped, several closed tear and crack repairs to plates and maps; American Entomological Society ex-library blind stamps on blank area of plates, some minimal foxing to plates [the hand colored plates do not appear in subsequent editions]. An attractive and complete set. [Hill 1490,… Read More

London: A. W. Webster, 1835. First Edition, presented here in its large paper format, untrimmed. With 30 engraved plates and charts, a third of which are hand-coloured, including the large folding map of discoveries made in the Arctic region. Royal 4to, in the publisher's original binding of blue patterned muslin cloth, the spine lettered in gilt within a gilt framework label of maritime motif, binder's ad slip tipped in at front free-fly, edges untrimmed. xxxiii, 740 pp. A truly exceptional copy, as pristine and unrestored and as printed, bound and published with little evidence of wear and no evidence of any repairwork whatsoever. Several quires remain unopened, the textblock is extremely fresh, the inevitable foxing being only very occasionally evident and even then very light though a bit more prevalent at the prelims as usual, the hinges are strong and firm and the binding shows only light evidence of age, especially so for such a delicate cloth used on such a large and heavy text. A… Read More

London: A. W. Webster, 156, Regent Street, 1835. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to; pp. [8], xxxiii, [1], 740 (with the added leaf *688-*689); xii, 120, cxliv, cii, [1] errata; frontispiece in each volume, and 49 engraved and lithographed plates, charts, and plans (15 hand-colored, 2 folding), both volumes in original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spines; small hole in front joint of volume II, sporadic foxing, especially on the frontispiece in volume II, 2 plates, and several text leaves; generally, a very good to near fine set. With the armorial bookplate of James Whatman, Jr. "Narrative and scientific results of expedition to Boothia Peninsula in the Victory, and return by sledge, boat, and the Isabella" (Arctic Bibliography). The Victory was iced in at the Boothia Peninsula; the expedition team spent three winters on board ship and two summers trying to free the ship. The remaining party eventually escaped, travelling northward along the Boothia coast, wintering on Somerset Island, and reached Captain… Read More