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William Edward Parry : 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

John Murray, London, 1821

rebacked expertly saving the original marbled boards. Spine with 6 densely gilt compartments of raised bands, green morocco label on two. All edges marbled, marbled paste down and free end papers., An excellent copy, plates and text are clean and crips., 4to, P. frontis map, title, printer’s imprint, dedication, blank, (4), i-xxix, blank, half-title, blank, 1-310, (1), blank, (1), blank, iii-clxxix, printer’s imprint, 6 maps and charts, 4 of which are folding, 9 aqautint plates depicting various scenes from the journey, and 5 lithographed profile sketches of the shoreline.

“Parry had sailed to the Arctic under Sir John Ross on the controversial voyage of 1818. In the spring of 1819, Parry was appointed to the command of this expedition. Frederick Beechey was a member of this party. Parry, reaching Lancaster Sound in July, sailed through, and explored and named Barrow Strait, Prince Regent Inlet, and Wellington Channel…He also discovered Melville Island and others of Parry Islands. After being frozen in for ten months, the ships were released on August 10, 1820…On his arrival he was commissioned commander and elected a member of the Royal Society . Parry made two further attemps at the Northwest Passage. The immediate achievements of these voyages were the charting of hundreds of miles of coastline in the Canadian Arctic archipelago and the collecting of valuable data on Arctic natural history.” (Hill), Arctic Bibl. 13145; Hill 1311; Sabin 58860

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