PARRY WILLIAM EDWARD.  Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery...

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PARRY WILLIAM EDWARD.  Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Performed ... in His Majesty's Ships Hecla & Griper. 4 fldg. eng. charts, other charts, plans & eng. & aquatint plates, as called for (20 in all). Quarto. Neat rebound half calf, marbled brds. 1821; also William Edward Parry, Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage ... Performed ... in His Majesty's Ship Fury & Hecla, eng. frontis, 8 fldg. charts & panoramas, other aquatint & eng. plates (39 in all, as called for), quarto, uniformly bound with the previous vol., 1824. (2)

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The first of the volumes has occasional tape repairs, browning & foxing including corner staining to some maps, plates & leaves. The second of the volumes has some tanning & occasional foxing & spotting but together they form a useful & attractive set.