Lot 2207: ROSS, SIR JOHN. 1777-1856.

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. Including the Reports of Commander, now Captain, James Clark Ross ... And The Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole [with] Appendix to the Narrative.... London: A. W. Webster, 1835. Together 2 volumes, 4to (315 x 250 mm). [8], xxxiii, [1], 740; xii, 120, cxliv, cii, [2] pp. Large folding colored map, 50 plates of which 21 are colored. Original navy textured cloth decorated in gilt on spine, untrimmed and partially unopened. Early replacement endpapers to first volume, binding quite bright but with large scuff to spine of vol 1 and smaller scuff on rear cover of volume 2, occasional foxing. Provenance: T.W. Tottie (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITIONS, a fine production. "This appendix contains, besides the illustrations of Esquimaux life, forty-four pages of a vocabulary of the language of that people. The first twenty-four pages are descriptive of the general habits of life of the Esquimaux, and pp 25 to 60 are occupied with biographical sketches of representative persons, of both sexes, of whom the plates are portraits" (Field 1321-2). Abbey Travel 636; Sabin 7360.