Ross (James Clark)
A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the Years 1839-43, London: John Murray, 1847. 2 volumes, 8vo, original vertical-ribbed blue-green cloth, titles to spines and pictorial vignettes to front boards gilt, 8 tinted lithographic plates including frontispiece and folding panorama (tissue-guards), 8 engraved charts and plans (3 folding), 17 chapter-headings with wood-engraved vignettes, 16 pp. advertisements dated October 1847 to rear of volume 2, spines consolidated at head and foot, inner hinges neatly strengthened, variable spotting to volume 1 frontispiece, plate facing volume 2 p. 169, and folding map at rear of each volume, folding map at rear of volume 2 with closed handling tear repaired verso, ownership inscriptions and a few marks to endpapers.

Rosove 276.A1 c.

First edition, 'a cornerstone of Antarctic literature and a monument to one of mankind's greatest expeditions of geographical and scientific exploration' (Rosove), one of 1,500 copies printed. The expedition also visited the Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Island, Tasmania, Australia, New Zealand, Campbell Island, and the Falkland Islands.