Ross, Sir John

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, ..and the Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole ... includes Reports of Commander now Capt J.C. Ross

London: Orlando Hodgson, nd c( 1836). 8vo, pp. (9)- 463, b/w frontis portrait, 11 b/w plates, marbled eps, light foxing prelims and plates, occasional marks scattered throughout, original leather boards professionally restored

RARE. The Hodgson octavo edition, quite possibly a piracy, complete with 11 plates and including a frontispiece portrait of Sir John Ross after Faulkner's 1834 painting was probably first published in 1836. Item #93644

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