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Title: 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 Author: Ross, John Place: London Publisher: A. W. Webster Date: 1835 Description: [8], xxxiii, [1], 740 pp. Illustrated with 16 steel-engraved plates including frontispiece; 6 lithographed plates (1 of which is a plan); 3 color mezzotints; 6 maps (one of which is a large folding chart). (4to) 11¼x8¾, original cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Important account described in the Arctic Bibliography as "Narrative and scientific results of expedition to Boothia Peninsula in the Victory, and return by sledge, boat, and the Isabella. Expedition was financed by Felix Booth and led by Sir John Ross with his nephew, James C. Ross second in command and head naturalist" - Arctic Bib. The expedition survived for four winters in the Arctic, during which James Clark Ross discovered the North Magnetic Pole. Field lauds the "sumptuous printing which makes every page a picture, has even its luxury enhanced by the splendid steel engravings and lithographs... Everywhere through the narrative is interwoven the records of aboriginal life as it appeared to the explorers...." The large map, “…Chart of Discoveries in the Arctic Regions...." shows the route of exploration around King Williams land and the Gulf of Boothia. There was a second, supplementary, volume to the work, considered the appendix, not present here. Arctic Bib. 14866; Field 1321; Hill 1490; Sabin 73381; Smith 8792. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear to spine head, lower corners of covers dampstained; mostly marginal dampstain to lower corners of contents, most noticeable on the plates and intruding into a few images, offsetting from the text to some of the plates, and vice versa, foxing to frontispiece, generally very good. Item number: 190865