POLAR ROSS (JOHN) 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, 2 vol. (including Appendix), 50 plates and maps (one folding, some hand-coloured), bookbinder's advertisement to subscribers tipped-in, contents of Appendix clean, first volume with some some offsetting and spotting, some leaves loose, spine broken, publisher's cloth, the Appendix rebacked preserving original spine label, the first volume covers and spine detached [Abbey Travel 636; Hill, p.261; Sabin 73381], 1835; Explanation and Answer to Mr. John Braithwaite's Supplement to Captain Sir John Ross's Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, publisher's printed wrappers, extreme upper fore-corner creased but otherwise a FINE COPY [Arctic Bibliography 14862; Sabin 73370, citing incorrect date], [1835], FIRST EDITIONS, 4to, A.W. Webster; together with a small group of contemporary newspaper articles about Ross and other Polar expeditions, and 2 manuscript maps drawn after those in George Back's Narrative (small group) Fußnoten Includes a fine copy of Ross's Explanation and Answer. John Ross led a privately funded expedition to find a Northwest Passage, embarking in 1829 on the Victory, a paddle-steamer with boilers fitted by John Braithwaite (an engineer whose locomotive engine Novelty was the first one ever to run a mile within a minute, and was entered into the Rainhill trials). The expedition foundered in the ice in 1832. Ross, in his Narrative of a Second Voyage, put the blame on the inadequacy of the boilers, Braithwaite immediately responding in print in his misleadingly titled "Supplement". In the 8-page "Explanation" Ross replies with "feelings of contempt... because it is lamentable to perceive a tradesman, even of the second class, descending to such unbecoming language as Mr. Braithwaite has made use of...", outlining eight major defects of the engines. Provenance: An early reader notes in the margin of p.569 "told us for the 144th time better for the appendix", and "really this is very presuming & great humbug. Oh! try appendix" beside printed passages referring "scientific men" to the appendix.
POLAR ROSS (JOHN) 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, 2 vol. (including Appendix), 50 plates and maps (one folding, some hand-coloured), bookbinder's advertisement to subscribers tipped-in, contents of Appendix clean, first volume with some some offsetting and spotting, some leaves loose, spine broken, publisher's cloth, the Appendix rebacked preserving original spine label, the first volume covers and spine detached [Abbey Travel 636; Hill, p.261; Sabin 73381], 1835; Explanation and Answer to Mr. John Braithwaite's Supplement to Captain Sir John Ross's Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, publisher's printed wrappers, extreme upper fore-corner creased but otherwise a FINE COPY [Arctic Bibliography 14862; Sabin 73370, citing incorrect date], [1835], FIRST EDITIONS, 4to, A.W. Webster; together with a small group of contemporary newspaper articles about Ross and other Polar expeditions, and 2 manuscript maps drawn after those in George Back's Narrative (small group) Fußnoten Includes a fine copy of Ross's Explanation and Answer. John Ross led a privately funded expedition to find a Northwest Passage, embarking in 1829 on the Victory, a paddle-steamer with boilers fitted by John Braithwaite (an engineer whose locomotive engine Novelty was the first one ever to run a mile within a minute, and was entered into the Rainhill trials). The expedition foundered in the ice in 1832. Ross, in his Narrative of a Second Voyage, put the blame on the inadequacy of the boilers, Braithwaite immediately responding in print in his misleadingly titled "Supplement". In the 8-page "Explanation" Ross replies with "feelings of contempt... because it is lamentable to perceive a tradesman, even of the second class, descending to such unbecoming language as Mr. Braithwaite has made use of...", outlining eight major defects of the engines. Provenance: An early reader notes in the margin of p.569 "told us for the 144th time better for the appendix", and "really this is very presuming & great humbug. Oh! try appendix" beside printed passages referring "scientific men" to the appendix.
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