REAR ADMIRAL SIR JOHN ROSS (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. London: C.Whiting for A.W.Webster, 1835. 4° (303 x 235mm). One large folding hand-coloured engraved map, four lithographed maps or charts (one printed in two colours), 25 plates (including 6 hand-coloured lithographs, 3 coloured mezzotints finished by hand, and 16 steel-engravings) after Ross. (Some offsetting, frontispiece and large map misbound, the map reinserted using masking-tape, pp.viii and ix of the introduction somewaht soiled.) Modern half morocco incorporating the contemporary marbled-board covers (extremities scuffed). Provenance : Admiral Sir George Back (1796-1878, inscription on title 'To Captain Back with the Authors best regards, and grateful remembrances, as well as Congratulations on his Success & Safe return on 11th September John Ross '). Author's presentation copy to his would-be rescuer. Back writes in the introduction to his Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River (London: 1836) that 'Early in the year 1832 the protracted absence of Captain (now Sir John) Ross... became the subject of general and anxious conversation. A report even reached Italy, where I happened to be, that he and his adventurous companions had perished; but, having ascertained that there was no other ground for this rumour than the uncertainty of their fate, I shortly afterwards hastened to England, with the intention of offering to Government my services to conduct an expedition in search of them.' Back left England in February 1833, Ross returned in October 1833. Back received news of his return in April 1834, continued to pursue the secondary objectives of his expedition and returned to London in September 1835. The wording of the inscription implies that Ross presented the present copy to Back on the day of his return, and is a clear indication of how appreciative he was of Back's efforts on his behalf. Abbey Travel 636.
REAR ADMIRAL SIR JOHN ROSS (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. London: C.Whiting for A.W.Webster, 1835. 4° (303 x 235mm). One large folding hand-coloured engraved map, four lithographed maps or charts (one printed in two colours), 25 plates (including 6 hand-coloured lithographs, 3 coloured mezzotints finished by hand, and 16 steel-engravings) after Ross. (Some offsetting, frontispiece and large map misbound, the map reinserted using masking-tape, pp.viii and ix of the introduction somewaht soiled.) Modern half morocco incorporating the contemporary marbled-board covers (extremities scuffed). Provenance : Admiral Sir George Back (1796-1878, inscription on title 'To Captain Back with the Authors best regards, and grateful remembrances, as well as Congratulations on his Success & Safe return on 11th September John Ross '). Author's presentation copy to his would-be rescuer. Back writes in the introduction to his Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River (London: 1836) that 'Early in the year 1832 the protracted absence of Captain (now Sir John) Ross... became the subject of general and anxious conversation. A report even reached Italy, where I happened to be, that he and his adventurous companions had perished; but, having ascertained that there was no other ground for this rumour than the uncertainty of their fate, I shortly afterwards hastened to England, with the intention of offering to Government my services to conduct an expedition in search of them.' Back left England in February 1833, Ross returned in October 1833. Back received news of his return in April 1834, continued to pursue the secondary objectives of his expedition and returned to London in September 1835. The wording of the inscription implies that Ross presented the present copy to Back on the day of his return, and is a clear indication of how appreciative he was of Back's efforts on his behalf. Abbey Travel 636.
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