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Lot 262
WEDDELL, JAMES A Voyage Towards the South Pole, Performed in the Years 1822-24. Containing an Examination of the Antarctic Sea,...
London: A. & R. Spottiswoode for Longman, Rees, Orne, Brown and Green, 1827. Second edition. Modern half brown calf, decorated paper sides. 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches (21.5 x 13.5 cm); iv, 324 pp.; 10 maps, charts and diagrams (6 folding), hand-colored frontispiece, four uncolored aquatint plates, and 2 plates of coastal profiles printed in blue. Light binding wear, minor offsetting from plates, generally a fresh copy. Bookplate of S.D. Dodweerd, with his name in ink on endpaper.
From the dedication: "This volume, containing the Journal of a Voyage in the Southern Hemisphere, and which reached a higher latitude in that quarter that was ever before accomplished, is (with His Lordship's fostering permission) respectfully dedicated. When the writer, a Seaman, views the noble exertions made under His Lord-ship's administration to ascertain the Geography of the Northern Polar Circle, he must deem it at once a debt of gratitude and a tribute of respect, humbly to offer him the account of researches pursued at the other extremity of the Globe." The most southerly voyage attempted to that date, the present work is a foundational one in Antarctic studies. The second edition is especially significant (in some regards, more so than the first), as it was expanded to include Weddell's "Observations on the Probability of Reaching the South Pole," a seminal document on Antarctic travel, and additionally the account of Brisbane's voyage to Tierra del Fuego. Rosove 345.B1; Spence 1248; Taurus 5.
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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