MCCORMICK, ROBERT. 1800-1890.

MCCORMICK, ROBERT. 1800-1890.
Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and Round the World.... London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1884.
2 volumes. 8vo (251 x 168 mm). Lithographed frontispiece portraits, 5 folding lithographed panoramas, 29 lithographed plates, 5 lithographed maps (1 folding), numerous illustrations in the text. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth with stars in gilt. Spines darkened and reinforced, endpapers renewed, light foxing and a few ink marks.

FIRST EDITION. A first hand account of the Ross expedition (1839-1843) written by the surgeon aboard Erebus. McCormick "conveys the sense of awed wonder experienced by all aboard Ross' ships when the true enormity of the Antarctic continent revealed itself for the first time" (Taurus). The plates include fine lithographed panoramas with icebergs. Spence 747; Taurus 10.