$3,998
Parry, William Edward (1790-1855) Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North West Passage, Five Volume Set. London: John Murray, 1821-1828. First editions, five quarto volumes, also including: Journal of a Second and Third Voyage; An Attempt to Reach the North Pole; [with] A Supplement Containing an Account of the Subjects of Natural History ; [bound with] Richardson's Appendix to Parry's Journal ; all volumes bound in full tan calf, the first volume in full modern leather, the other four rebacked, with uniform elaborately gilt-tooled spines, each with three labels; illustrated as follows: the Journal with six engraved maps (four folding) and fourteen engraved plates; the Second Voyage with nine engraved maps (four folding) and thirty engraved plates (four folding); the Third Voyage with four maps (one folding) and seven plates (one folding); the North Pole with three engraved maps (one folding with hand-colored details) and four engraved plates; the Natural History Supplement with nine engraved plates; errata slip in the Journal , modern bookplate on front pastedowns, embossed blind-stamp of Manchester City Library to title pages and the occasional text leaf, minor old ink notations to inner margin of title pages; generally clean, 10 1/4 x 8 in. Parry was in search of a Northwest Passage and made three separate attempts. A full run of the North Georgia Gazette and Winter Chronicle , a periodical edited by Captain Sabine for the crew during the winter of the first voy Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-10-30
