LOT 152 A Voyage of Discovery, Made under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's Ships Isabella and Alexander, for the Purpose of Exploring Baffin's Bay, and Inquiring into the Probability of a North-West Passage, FIRST EDITION, John Murray, 1819 ROSS (JOHN)
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A Voyage of Discovery, Made under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's Ships Isabella and Alexander, for the Purpose of Exploring Baffin's Bay, and Inquiring into the Probability of a North-West Passage, FIRST EDITION, 25 aquatint or engraved plates and coastal profiles (15 hand-coloured, 7 folding), 7 engraved maps and charts (6 folding), without errata slip, contemporary diced calf gilt, spine gilt tooled with musical and floral device and title "Ross' Voyage. North-West Passage" [Abbey Travel 634; Hill 1488; Sabin 73376], 4to, John Murray, 1819
|"A famous, even notorious, voyage [in search of the North-West Passage]... Ross attempted to proceed westward through Lancaster Sound but, presumably deceived by a mirage, he described the passage as barred by a range of mountains" (Hill).
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