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Verlag: Palala Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 1356990436ISBN 13: 9781356990436
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.
Verlag: John Murray, London, 1829
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Six volumes in three. 16mos. Illustrated with an engraved folding map and 12 engraved plates. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt decorated spines with leather titling labels. Small owner's name in ink on front free endpapers (dated 1853). Spanish bookseller's ticket on rear pastedowns. Moderate wear at the edges of the boards and corners, spine lettering a little faded, intermittent light toning, an attractive very good set. The first collected edition of Parry's Arctic voyages, including the sixth volume, which was not originally planned for the set. *Sabin* 58869.
Verlag: John Murray, 1831
Anbieter: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, Vereinigtes Königreich
engraved frontispieces to each volume and plates throughout, uniformly a little toned, but a very good copy, untrimmed, 5 vols, pp. xvi, 310, 2; viii, 320; vii, [1], 328; viii, 322, [2]; vii, [1], 300, first and fourth vols with final ad leaves in contemporary red cloth, paper spine labels, spines and extremities sunned, A very attractive set of Sir William Parry's account of his three voyages to the Northwest Passage, which were undertaken between 1819 and 1825. Parry's first voyage coincided with an unusually ice-free winter, which enabled him to traverse channels previously believed to be landlocked. Although the later expeditions - in more seasonally traditional weather - did not see him replicate his success, 'the immediate achievements of these voyages were the charting of hundreds of miles of coastline in the Canadian Arctic archipelago and the collecting of valuable data on Arctic natural history' (Hill). Indeed, these volumes are full of such detail; Parry records treacherous conditions, outlines meteorological phenomena such as the Aurora Borealis - and records bird and plant specimens previously unknown in Europe. His interactions with Eskimaux, in particular, are extensively documented. The fine frontispiece plates, engraved by Edward Finden, show the Hecla and Griper in various remote and unforgiving landscapes, Eskimaux children dancing, and a portrait of Parry in uniform. (Sabin 58871 (for the New York edition, published by Harper & Brothers)).