Parry (William Edward). Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, 1st ed, 1821

Parry (William Edward). Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-20, in his Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1821, 20 engraved maps and plates, occasional spotting, fore and bottom-edge untrimmed, original drab paper-covered boards, lacking spine, upper cover detached, 4to, together with: Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's Ships Fury and Hecla, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1824, 31 engraved, uncoloured aquatint and lithograph plates, lacking all the charts, contemporary ink ownership and gift inscriptions to front blank, with a B. A. N. Z. Antarctic Research Expedition ink stamp with the ownership inscription of J. B. Child above, further neat mid-19th-century ownership inscription to head of title, two library withdrawn stamps to front pastedown, sporadic spotting, hinges neatly repaired, modern blue cloth gilt, 4to (Quantity: 2) Provenance (second work): J. B. Child was the third officer on the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition which took place between 1929 and 1931, lead by Sir Douglas Mawson. It is reasonable to assume this volume was taken on the expedition.