Captain Parry's Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, in 1819-20. Containing an Account of the Subjects of Natural History bound with The North Georgia Gazette and Winter Chronicle 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. Both First editions in 2 volumes.

JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1819-1820 IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS HECLA AND GRIPPER UNER THE ORDERS OF WILLIAM EDWARD PARRY R.N., F.R.S. AND COMMANDER OF THE EXPEDITION. London., John Murray., 1821. 4to. First Volume. The original edition with 14 plates and 9 maps hors-texte. Half Title, both works complete with half titles, Vol. I, 310pp. + 179 pages of IX appendix, and 132pp. of the North Georgian Gazette and Winter Chronicle. 14 engraved and/or aquatint maps and plates. Toal number of pages 621. Sabin 58860 and 58864; Holland pp. 185-86; Artic Bibliography 13145; Hill, p. 225; Stanton and Tremaine 1295. The first volume contains the first edition of Parry's first voyage during which he explored the Strait of Lancaster and discovered the island of Melville and the straits of Wellington. Parry solved the problem of locating the entrance to the Northwest Passage and navigating through half of it and returning with new observations on meteorology and zoological and geological examples. Vol. I contains the original edition of 30 plates and 9 maps hors-text. Sabin 58860 and 58864, Holland pp. 185-86, Artic Bibliography 13145, Hill, pp. 225 The first volume contains The North Georgia Gazette was a weekly Arctic newspaper, Issued from Nov.1 1819 to March 20, 1820, and IX Appendix. RARE with the supplement as here.

Journal of the Second Voyage of the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1821-22-23 in his Majesty's Ships Fury and Hecla. Ib.,Id., 1824. 2nd Volume, First edition. Quarto. 2 vol. in-4, 4 ff.n.ch.-f. d'errata, XXIX 1 f.n.ch.-576 pp., 31 plates in engraving and /or aquatint and 6 maps h.-t., and 2 ff.n.ch., pp. III-CLXXIX for the appendix-XII-132pp. Including . 4 ff.n.ch.-XXX-1 f.n.ch.-576 pp.-2 ff.n.ch. of the catalog, Both volumes are bound in half brown morocco calf, marbled end papers, 2 ornaments and the title on spine in gold.

This, Parry's 2nd of 3 expeditions, traveled through Hudson Strait in Hudson Bay and north. This expedition was concerned with the aboriginal life of the Eskimos. Also accounts of a variety of scientific discoveries.

A beautiful set in fine condition with the original silk ties in both volumes still in fine condition. The exception that some of the illustrations have bled on to the opposite pages even though there are original tissues bound in on most of them.

Please request a list of the Titles of the IX Appendix in the 1st Volume.