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Title(s)
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 / by John Ross, K.S. Captain Royal Navy.
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Published/Created
London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1819.
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Physical Description
[4], xxxix, [1], 252, cxliv p., [29] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 28 cm.
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
G650 1818 R67+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
Illustrations by Daniel Havell, Robert Havell, J. Walker and Thomas Lewin; after Alexander Motz Skene, Sir John Ross, Henry Parkins Hoppner and J. Stevenson Bushnan.
Printed by W. Clowes, Northumberland-Court, Strand.
"A second edition in two volumes was published by Longmans in the same year at ℓ1.1s in boards, without most of the illustrations. A French edition was published in Paris, 1819; German edition, Jena, 1819, and Leipzig, 1820; and a Dutch edition, The Hague, 1821. Ross's 'Narrative of a second voyage in search of a North West Passage', was published in 1835"--Cf. Abbey.
National Maritime Museum. Library. Voyages and travel. V. 1. London : Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1968, 818
Appendixes, of scientific observations and reports, cxliv p. at end.
Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 634
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in half morocco. Has armorial bookplate of George Giles. -
Subject Terms
Alexander (Ship) | Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- British. | Baffin Bay (North Atlantic Ocean) -- Discovery and exploration. | Clowes, W. -- Printer. | Engraving -- Specimens -- 1819. | Giles, George -- Bookplate. | Holland House -- Bookplate. (bein) | Isabella (Ship : 1818–1834) | Murray, J. -- Publisher. | Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration -- British. | Stipple engraving -- Specimen -- 1819.
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Form/Genre
Aquatints -- 1819. | Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1819. | Armorial Bookplates (Provenance)
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