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Polar.- Antarctica.- Ross (Capt. Sir James Clark A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the years 1839-43, 2 vol., first edition, 8 tinted lithographed plates, one double-page and folding, 8 engraved maps, 3 folding, unpaginated half-titles to each chapter, most with wood-engraved vignette, wood-engraved illustrations, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end of vol.1, light foxing, mostly to plates and maps, some plates with light marginal water-staining, large folding map with short tear to inner edge repaired, damp-staining to rear endpapers, original pictorial blue cloth, gilt, rubbed and faded, lightly damp-stained, [Abbey, Travel 610; Ferguson 4636; Rosove 276; Sabin 73367; Spence 993; Taurus Coll. 9], 8vo, 1847. ⁂ Ross was the nephew of Sir John Ross and served under him on his uncle's first Arctic voyage in search of a Northwest Passage in 1818. He also accompanied Sir William Parry on his four Arctic expeditions between 1819 and 1827, and his uncle again on Sir John's second Arctic voyage from 1829 to 1833. Between 1839 and 1843 Ross commanded this Antarctic expedition in the vessels HMS Erebus andTerror and charted much of the coastline of the continent, with Joseph Dalton Hooker the assistant surgeon. In 1841, James Ross discovered the Ross Sea, Victoria Land, and the volcanoes Mounts Erebus and Terror, as well as the low, flat-topped ice shelf they called the Victoria Barrier, later named "Ross Ice Shelf" in his honour. "Once this account became public, no one could doubt there was a great southern continent of immense proportions to be explored." Taurus Collection