PARRY (WILLIAM EDWARD)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, FIRST EDITION, 14 engraved or aquatint plates, 6 engraved maps (some folding), errata slip pasted to final leaf of text, contemporary calf gilt, covers with 3-line gilt fillet and Greek-style roll tool border enclosing inner panel, spine tooled and lettered in 5 compartments within raised bands, joints weakened [Sabin 58860], 4to, John Murray, 1821FootnotesProvenance: William Orme Foster (1814-1899), Apley Park bookplate. Foster, an iron master and Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire from 1857-1868, purchased the Apley Park estate near Bridgnorth in 1868; by descent to the present owner.
PARRY (WILLIAM EDWARD)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, FIRST EDITION, 14 engraved or aquatint plates, 6 engraved maps (some folding), errata slip pasted to final leaf of text, contemporary calf gilt, covers with 3-line gilt fillet and Greek-style roll tool border enclosing inner panel, spine tooled and lettered in 5 compartments within raised bands, joints weakened [Sabin 58860], 4to, John Murray, 1821FootnotesProvenance: William Orme Foster (1814-1899), Apley Park bookplate. Foster, an iron master and Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire from 1857-1868, purchased the Apley Park estate near Bridgnorth in 1868; by descent to the present owner.
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