WEDDELL, JAMES. 1787-1834.
A Voyage Towards the South Pole, Performed in the Years 1822-24. Containing an Examination of the Antarctic Sea, to the Seventy-fourth Degree of Latitude: and a Visit to Tierra del Fuego.... London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827.
A Voyage Towards the South Pole, Performed in the Years 1822-24. Containing an Examination of the Antarctic Sea, to the Seventy-fourth Degree of Latitude: and a Visit to Tierra del Fuego.... London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827.
8vo (215 x 133 mm). Colored aquatint frontispiece, 8 maps and charts (6 folding), 5 plates, and 2 plates of coastal profiles printed in blue. Contemporary calf gilt, marbled endpapers. Joints repaired, some folding charts with small tears, light staining and foxing.
Provenance: G.E. Maunsell (bookplate).
Second edition, described in Taurus as "equally important" to the first, due to its inclusion of Observations on the Probability of Reaching the South Pole, and an account of a second voyage by Captain Matthew Brisbane. Rosove 345.B1; Spence 1248; Taurus 5.
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A Voyage Towards the South Pole, Performed in the Years 1822-24. Containing an Examination of the Antarctic Sea, to the Seventy-fourth Degree of Latitude: and a Visit to Tierra del Fuego.... London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827.
A Voyage Towards the South Pole, Performed in the Years 1822-24. Containing an Examination of the Antarctic Sea, to the Seventy-fourth Degree of Latitude: and a Visit to Tierra del Fuego.... London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827.
8vo (215 x 133 mm). Colored aquatint frontispiece, 8 maps and charts (6 folding), 5 plates, and 2 plates of coastal profiles printed in blue. Contemporary calf gilt, marbled endpapers. Joints repaired, some folding charts with small tears, light staining and foxing.
Provenance: G.E. Maunsell (bookplate).
Second edition, described in Taurus as "equally important" to the first, due to its inclusion of Observations on the Probability of Reaching the South Pole, and an account of a second voyage by Captain Matthew Brisbane. Rosove 345.B1; Spence 1248; Taurus 5.
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