18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 2180
 

2180

Ross (John). A Voyage of Discovery [and] Narrative of a Second Voyage, 1st editions, 1819-35

Ross (John). A Voyage of Discovery, made under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's Ships Isabella and Alexander, for the Purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay, and inquiring into the Probability of a North-West Passage, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1819. 4to (271 x 185 mm), 20th-century cloth, [4] xxxix [1] 252 [7] vi-cxliv pp., 3 engraved folding charts including frontispiece, 21 aquatint plates (of which 12 hand-coloured, 6 folding), 4 etched or engraved plates (one folding, one hand-coloured), 4 engraved tables (3 folding) errata slip, library plate removed from front pastedown, moderate soiling and staining throughout (mainly to text), repairs to lower margins of a few text-leaves, M4, 2D4 and 2E3 with repaired tears through text, all plates and charts with ink-stamps of Birmingham Library, those folding all backed on linen, frontispiece with repairs to folds, folding plates at pp. 122 and 142 partly split along folds, marginal repair to engraved plate at p. 102, aquatint at p. 170 spotted, that at p. 174 trimmed, together with:
idem, 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, 1st edition, London: A. W. Webster, 1835. 4to (272 x 210 mm), later quarter morocco, [3-8] i-xxxii [1] 740 pp., 31 plates and charts including 3 hand-coloured aquatints (the rest steel-engraved or lithographic), half-title discarded, title-page repaired verso, variable spotting to plates and to text-leaves adjacent to steel-engravings, handling tear to folding chart at rear,
and one other work (qty: 3)

Abbey Travel 634 & 636; Sabin 73376 & 73381.

Without the appendix volume for the Second Voyage.

Sold for £650
Estimated at £300 - £500


 

Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 18th May, 2022

Over 180 lots to include a broad selection, from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, and historic documents. Amongst the highlights is a group of Victorian ephemera including a Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, and a very unusual leaf-cut picture of workers around a derelict tower and trees. Of North-East interest is a collection of approximately 240 19th and early 20th century photographs, and an outstanding archive of early drawings and plans relating to Radcliffe and Broomhill Collieries.

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