Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and round the World: being Personal Narratives of Attempts to reach the North and South Poles; and of an Open-boat Expedition up the Wellington Channel

Name: Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and round the World: being Personal Narratives of Attempts to reach the North and South Poles; and of an Open-boat Expedition up the Wellington Channel
Author: M’Cormick, Robert.

Book Description

First edition. 2 vols. Large 8vo. pp. xx, 432 & xii, 412; tinted litho. port. frontis. to each, 30 other lithographed plates, 5 folding lithographed panoramas, 22 wood-eng. plates, 4 lithographed maps, one folding map of the Wellington Channel (not called for); occasional foxing, tears to fold on folding map, bookplates of Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis, else very good in contemporary half calf, gilt, a little fading to spines, rubbed.

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Spence 747; Renard 1051; Taurus 10; Rosove 221.A1 variant e (“Very scarce”). M’Cormick, a naval surgeon, became assistant surgeon on William Parry’s 1827 attempt to reach the North Pole. He later joined the Beagle, where he met Charles Darwin, and subsequently accompanied James Clark Ross on the 1839-1843 Antarctic expedition. In the period following the departure of the Franklin expedition, M’Cormick tried without success to join or to organise a search expedition. He ultimately gained permission to lead a boat journey in August 1852, publishing his experiences as Narrative of a Boat- Expedition up the Wellington Channel (1854). The present two volumes contain M’Cormick’s descriptions of his several polar voyages, concluding with his autobiography. Published at his own expense, at the age of 84, the book was issued in only 750 copies.

Author M’Cormick, Robert.

Date 1884

Binding Contemporary half calf

Publisher London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington

Condition See description

Pages xx, 432 & xii, 412

Price: £2750.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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