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1835 · WRCAM50816 — Paris 1835. Two volumes. lxi3456; 4544pp. plus three engraved plates and a folding map. Half titles. Contemporary French three- quarter calf and marbled paper spines gilt. Light shelf wear. Modern bookplate on front pastedowns. Light scattered foxing. About very good. First French edition published the same year as the English first of Ross' second voyage. A fundamental Arctic narrative offered with the rare illustrated appendix. Despite the failure of his trip in 1818 Ross set out in 1829 in the small ship Victory to find a northwest passage but the vessel had to be abandoned in 1832. Ross and his party were rescued in the summer of 1833 in Lancaster Sound. In the meantime Capt. George Back had set out in search of Ross. Back's account of his explorations was published the year after this volume appeared. The greatest scientific yield of the trip was the discovery of the North Magnetic Pole. Includes a detailed map of the Boothia Peninsula. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 14870. SABIN 73385. unknown books