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68 2418 Ant artica Ross J 68/2418 [(Ant)artica]. Ross, J. 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. London, A.W. Webster, 1835, (8),XXXIII,(1),740p., 1 fold. steelengr. map w. handcol. borders, 5 steelengr. maps, 15 steelengr. plates, 9 lithogr./ handcol. engr. plates, modern hleather w. green mor. letterpiece, folio. - Occas. sl. foxed; library-stamp on title-p. Without the appendix vol. = Arctic Bibliography 14866; Sabin 73381; Chavanne 1450; Henze IV, p.668ff (on James Clark Ross) and p.677ff (on John Ross ; Nissen, ZBI 3481. "Narrative and scientific results of expedition to Boothia Peninsula in the Victory, and return by sledge, boat and the Isabella. Expedition was financed by Felix Booth and led by Sir John Ross with his nephew James C. Ross second in command and head naturalist." (Arctic Bibliography). Cat. Nat. Maritime Mus. 850: "As a result of the failure of his voyage in 1818, the Admiralty refused to support Ross in a second attempt. It was not until 1829 that the assistance of Felix Booth, the Sheriff of London, enabled him to set out in the small paddle-steamer Victory, with his nephew, James Clark Ross, as second-in-command. The expedition survived four winters beset in the Arctic, during which James Clark Ross discovered the northern magnetic pole on May 31, 1831. John Ross was knighted on the expedition's return." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.