Appendix to the Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833... Including the Reports of Commander, now Captain, James Clark Ross ... and the Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole
London, A.W. Webster, 1835.
Large quarto, xii, 120, cxliv, cii, [ii] (omissions and errata, verso blank) pages plus an engraved frontispiece portrait and 19 lithographs (13 hand-coloured) with tissue-guards.
Original patterned blue cloth with the title in gilt, within a decorative gilt border, on the spine; all edges uncut; cloth a little marked and bumped, unevenly sunned, lightly stained, and lightly worn at the extremities; tidemark to the top margin of the front flyleaf and the first 20 leaves and 3 plates, just touching the printed surface on the first 10 leaves and the frontispiece (where it is the most noticeable); scattered foxing, confined mainly to the margins; overall a decent copy.
At the head of the title page is the signature of John Howard Angas (1823-1904), pastoralist, politician and philanthropist, and the second son of George Fife Angas. The first 104 pages and 13 plates (10 hand-coloured) deal with the indigenous peoples encountered ('the Esquimaux found in the Territory of Boothia Felix' and the 'Native Population of Greenland'), and their languages. The companion narrative volume was issued separately the same year.
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