Capt john ross (5 Ergebnisse)
Weitere BilderVerlag: John Murray, London 1819
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Quarter Leather. Zustand: Very good. First Edition. Quarto, xxxix, [1], 252pp, [2], cxliv, [five fold-out diagrams]. Three quarter brown calf, raised bands, title stamped in gilt over black morocco label. Marbled boards, marbled endpapers, silk bookmark. Complete with 32 engraved plates, maps and charts, including 15 hand-colore…d aquatints. Thirteen of the plates are folding, many with tissue covers. Some transference to charts towards the rear, scattered foxing to plates, color plates all near fine. Hinge on "Wolstenholme Sound" foldout starting. Booksellers' stamp on second free endpaper. Text generally clean, binding solid. Lacking errata slip. Ownership inscription of "E.B. Portman" along top margin of title page. (Arctic Bibliography 14873) (Sabin 73376) (Hill 1488). John Ross (1777-1856) a British naval officer and explorer. He led the First British Arctic Expedition in 1818 aboard HMS Isabella with HMS Alexander in consort, tasked by the British Admiralty with surveying Baffin Bay and assessing the viability of a Northwest Passage. Sailing via Davis Strait, Ross charted coastal features, made contact with Inuit communities near Cape York, and gathered valuable hydrographic and ethnographic data, but controversially reported a chain of supposed high mountains-the "Croker Mountains"-barring the entrance to Lancaster Sound, prompting him to turn back. Although the voyage confirmed much of the early Baffin Bay geography, Ross's decision to withdraw and the disputed mountain sighting drew criticism at home and later spurred further expeditions, most notably William Edward Parry's successful transit into Lancaster Sound in 1819, which effectively disproved Ross's claimed barrier. Full title: A Voyage Of Discovery, Made Under The Orders Of The Admiralty, In His Majesty's Ships Isabella And Alexander, For The Purpose Of Exploring Baffin's Bay, And Inquiring Into The Probability Of A North-West Passage. The first edition of A Voyage of Discovery, Exploring Baffin's Bay by Capt. John Ross, published in London in 1819. (illustrator).
Weitere BilderJournal of the Royal Geographical Society , Volume II, 1832. [with maps 'South East portion of Australia during the progress of discovery in the interior of New South Wales to 1832' and 'Western Australia from the latest documents received 1832']
Stirling, James ; Allan Cunningham ; Robert FitRoy ; Capt John Ross ; John Arrowsmith (map) and John Walker (map)
Verlag: John Murray for Royal Geographical Society, London 1832
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Anbieter: Muir Books [Robert Muir Old & Rare Books], PERTH, WA, AustralienMuir Books [Robert Muir Old & Rare Books]
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Leather. 1st Edition. 1st ed., Volume 2, octavo, full leather binding, gilt decoration to spine, gilt titled red leather spine label, maps, pp (viii), 334. Complete with all 11 maps. Some rubs and scrapes boards, trace of water damage corners of endpapers, foxing to first page of Nile report, also to maps of Africa and Egypt, li…ght staining to margins (only) of New South Wales map. The map of Western Australia in near fine conditon. Amorial bookplate of J.T. Williamson. Very good condition. Maps include John Walker's large folding map of Western Australia whic accompanies Recent Information from Australia with a despatch from Lieut-Governor James Stirling describing the Swan River district, 2 April 1832, and Arrowsmith's large folding map of New South Wales to accompany Allan Cunningham's report of exploration of the interior. Also included: a letter from Captain FitzRoy regarding the Abrolhos Islands, and maps of North Africa, the Egyptian desert, British Guiana, the Maldives, the mouth of the Ganges river, New Zealand, the Virgin Islands, the Upper Nile, west Africa.
Weitere BilderVerlag: London: A.W. Webster. 1835
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Anbieter: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, Vereinigtes KönigreichLUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA)
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First edition. Author's presentation copy. Quarto. Publisher's original moire blue cloth with titles in gilt to the spine. Page edges untrimmed. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, large folding map (coloured in outline) and 30 plates (eight of which are hand-coloured) and charts. viii, xxxiv, 740pp. Contained within a cus…tom made matching blue cloth slipcase. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with two small dents to the upper board. Recased, with the original spine neatly relaid; the corners strengthened and repaired. The contents, with some occasional light scattered foxing, are otherwise in very good order, clean throughout and remain free from any previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Inscribed in black ink to the head of the title page "To Ralph Abercrombie Esquire with the author's compliments". "As a result of the failure of his voyage in 1818, the Admiralty refused to support John Ross in a second expedition. It was not until 1829 that the assistance of Felix Booth, the sheriff of London, enabled him to set out in the small paddle-steamer 'Victory' with his nephew James Clark Ross as second-in-command. The expedition survived four winters in the Arctic, during which James Clark Ross discovered the North Magnetic Pole" (Hill, p.261). The plates include many of Eskimo costume and life, as well as the justly praised colour mezzotints showing the polar night sky. A most uncommon author's presentation copy of this key work from the Golden age of Arctic Exploration. (Abbey Travel, 636; Hill, 1490; Sabin, 73381). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Weitere BilderVerlag: London: A.W. Webster. 1835
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Anbieter: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, Vereinigtes KönigreichLUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA)
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First edition. Quarto. Publisher's original moire blue cloth with titles in gilt to the spine. Page edges untrimmed. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, large folding map (coloured in outline) and 30 plates (8 of which are hand-coloured) and charts. viii, xxxiv, 740pp. Original Remnant & Edmonds binder's notice tipped-in a…t the front free endpaper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little wear to the head of the spine, some scattered marking to the boards and minor bumping to the corners. The contents with a little looseness at the gutter of the frontispiece, some occasional light scattered foxing (a little heavier to a few of the black and white plates) and a touch of offsetting to the map, are otherwise in very good order, clean throughout and remain free from any previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. An attractive copy in entirely original condition. The first edition of Sir John Ross's wonderfully illustrated account of his second Arctic expedition. "As a result of the failure of his voyage in 1818, the Admiralty refused to support John Ross in a second expedition. It was not until 1829 that the assistance of Felix Booth, the sheriff of London, enabled him to set out in the small paddle-steamer 'Victory' with his nephew James Clark Ross as second-in-command. The expedition survived four winters in the Arctic, during which James Clark Ross discovered the North Magnetic Pole" (Hill, p.261). The plates include many of Eskimo costume and life, as well as the justly praised colour mezzotints showing the polar night sky. An appealing copy of this key work from the Golden age of Arctic Exploration. (Abbey Travel, 636; Hill, 1490; Sabin, 73381). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
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First edition. 32 engraved plates, tables & charts, including 23 aquatint plates, of which 15 are hand-coloured (4 of these folding). 4to. Contemporary calf, rebacked with the original panelled calf spine with a green morocco label, new endpapers. Scattered foxing throughout. xxxix, 252, cxlivpp. London, John Murray, A good copy… of this classic. Ownership inscription on the title-page of of Hans Sloane, presumably the Isle of Wight and Southampton MP (1739-1827). Sabin, 73376; Abbey, 634.
