MORRELL, BENJAMIN. 1795-1839.

A Narrative of Four Voyages, to the South Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, Chinese Sea, Ethiopic and Southern Atlantic Ocean, Indian and Antarctic Ocean. From the year 1822 to 1831. New York: J. & J. Harper, 1832.

A Narrative of Four Voyages, to the South Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, Chinese Sea, Ethiopic and Southern Atlantic Ocean, Indian and Antarctic Ocean. From the year 1822 to 1831. New York: J. & J. Harper, 1832.
8vo (222 x 145 mm). Half-title, engraved frontispiece, 4 pages of advertisements at end. Publisher's cloth, paper spine label. Covers slightly soiled, spine label worn, Light spotting throughout.

FIRST EDITION. Born in Westchester County, New York, Morrell rose from a lowly seaman to a Captain, and once in command of his own schooner, the Wasp, he visited islands in the Antarctic including Kerguelen and the South Sandwich group. He also rediscovered Bouvet Island and sailed into the Weddell Sea. Rosove 232.A1a; Spence 814.