WEDDELL, JAMES.

Voyage towards the South Pole, performed in the Years 1822-24. Containing an Examination of the Antarctic Sea, to the seventy-fourth Degree of Latitude: and a Visit to Tierra del Fuego, with a particular Account of the Inhabitants. To which is added, much useful Information of the coasting Navigation of Cape Horn, and the adjacent Lands. With Charts of Harbours. SAecond Edition, with Observations on the probability of reaching the South Pole, and an Account of the second Voyage performed by Beaufoy, Captain Brisbane, to the same Seas.

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827.

Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and blindtooled. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamps on title-page. IV,324 pp., 7 folded engraved maps, 1 lithographed plate in colour, 2 lithographed folded panoramas, 4 engraved plates. Plates with a bit of foing and marginal brownspots. Text clean and fine.

Scarce second edition, but expanded, of this classic in antarctic conquest. Auctioned and sold copies obviously collates differently in relation to maps and plates. - Sabin, 102431.

Order-nr.: 53966