Ross, John Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage

Ross, John Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. London: A. W. Webster, 1835. 2 volumes, 4to (31.5 x 24.5cm), 20th-century blue half calf, nautical motifs gilt to spines, [6] xxxiv 740, xii 120 cxliv cii [2] pp., 50 plates and charts (steel-engraved, lithographic or mezzotint, many hand-coloured), folding map, several plates with tissue-guards, errata leaf to the main volume discarded, steel-engraved plates variably spotted and offset, occasional spotting to lithographic plates (mainly around edges), repaired closed tear to folding map, Appendix volume largely unopened [Abbey Travel 636; Nissen ZBI 3481; Sabin 73381] Qty: (2) Note: An attractive, wide-margined copy, complete with the Appendix volume, which was issued as an optional extra. The plates depict ethnographic and natural history subjects and views. 'The results of the voyage, remarkable for the length of time spent in the ice, were the survey of the Boothia peninsula, of a great part of King William Land, and of the Gulf of Boothia; the presumptive determination that the sought-for passage did not lie in that direction; and the discovery of the magnetic pole by James Clark Ross. In 1834 Ross was knighted; the geographical societies of London and Paris awarded him their gold medals, and on 24th December 1834 he was nominated a CB' (ODNB).