Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; . performed in the years 1819-20, in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper, under the orders of William Edward Parry, ... and commander of the expedition. With an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations. Published by authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
Rear-Admiral Sir William Edward Parry (1790-1855)
Category
Books
Date
1821
Materials
Collection
Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire
NT 3053949
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],xvi,310,[2],clxxix,[1]p., plates : ill., maps ; 4to. Loosely inserted: folded leaf with several dried plants enclosed, inscribed in early nineteenth-century hand: "Dried plants brought by Captain Parry from Melville Island in the Polar Sea"; inscribed later below in pencil: "This is hand-writing of a Bowles[?] and apparently that of Lucy Holbech_ CWH." [i.e. Charles William Holbech (1816-1901) with reference to Lucy Holbech, née Bowles (1781-1835)]. Binding: nineteenth-century calf; blind roll border; gilt tooled spine; five false bands.
Makers and roles
Rear-Admiral Sir William Edward Parry (1790-1855)