A Voyage Towards the South Pole, Performed in the Years 1822-24. Containing an Examination of the Antarctic Sea…
- London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. First edition. Very Good. Octavo. iv, [errata slip], 276 pp. Complete with hand-colored frontispiece, seven folding maps, and seven other plates. Contemporary calf, rebacked to style. Inner hinges cracked but holding. Twentieth-century bookplate to upper pastedown. Some foxing and offsetting from plates. One map with paper repair to verso. A Very Good copy.
A cornerstone of any Polar collection, and the starting point for exploration to the Antarctic. Weddell achieved the furthest south record at that point (three degrees beyond Cook), resulting in his discovery of what would then become the Weddell Sea, as well as the Weddell seal. The voyage was so groundbreaking at the time, certain places such as the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf would not be rediscovered until nearly a century later.
The expedition "visited and described the Cape Verde Islands, South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands, and South Georgia Islands, wintered in the Falkland Islands, and described Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, and Montevideo. During their southward sailing, they reached the lowest latitude as yet then recorded. This area explored now bears the name Weddell Sea" (Hill).
Abbey Travel 609; Hill (1974) p. 322; Sabin 102431. Very Good.
A cornerstone of any Polar collection, and the starting point for exploration to the Antarctic. Weddell achieved the furthest south record at that point (three degrees beyond Cook), resulting in his discovery of what would then become the Weddell Sea, as well as the Weddell seal. The voyage was so groundbreaking at the time, certain places such as the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf would not be rediscovered until nearly a century later.
The expedition "visited and described the Cape Verde Islands, South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands, and South Georgia Islands, wintered in the Falkland Islands, and described Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, and Montevideo. During their southward sailing, they reached the lowest latitude as yet then recorded. This area explored now bears the name Weddell Sea" (Hill).
Abbey Travel 609; Hill (1974) p. 322; Sabin 102431. Very Good.