DAINES BARRINGTON (1727-1800) 'Tracts on the Possibility of Reaching the North Pole', in: Miscellanies . London: J. Nichols, 1781, pp. 2i- 2viii and 1-124. 4° (260 x 206mm). 2 engraved plates and 2 maps (maps bound in reverse order), one folding. 5 letterpress tables, one folding, and letterpress tables in the text. (Variable light spotting, a few leaves with light marginal dampstaining, folding map trimmed, lacking Barrington's 'Introduction' to Maurelle's 'Journal', pp. *3O4-7.) Contemporary English tree calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in one (extremities a little rubbed and chipped, rebacked retaining original lettering-piece). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF THE TRACTS AND FIRST EDITION OF THE MISCELLANIES . Cox II, p. 25; Hill 56; Howes B-177; Lada-Mocarski 34; Sabin 3628. DAINES BARRINGTON . The Possibility of Approaching the North Pole Asserted ... with an Appendix, Containing Papers on the Same Subject and on a North West Passage , edited by Mark Beaufoy. London: Charles Wood for T. and J. Allman, W.H. Reid, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818. 8° (214 x 130mm). Half-title, title with woodcut vignette. Engraved folding map by J. Smith (Variable light spotting and offsetting, very light dampstaining on map.) Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, titled in one, others with anchor tools (somewhat rubbed, upper joint split, short tears on spine). SECOND, EXPANDED AND FIRST SEPARATE COLLECTED EDITION. Arctic Bibliography 1092; Hill 57 ('quite uncommon'); Sabin 3629. THE FIRST AND SECOND COMPLETE EDITIONS OF BARRINGTON'S CELEBRATED TRACTS . Barrington's interest in polar exploration and the North-West Passage had first manifested itself while he was a member of the Council of the Royal Society, where he suggested that the Society should approach his friend John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich and First Lord of the Admiralty with a proposal for an expedition; Sandwich persuaded King George III to support the expedition and it sailed in 1773 under the command of Constantine John Phipps (cf. lot 101, Phipps's A Voyage Towards The North Pole ). These three tracts -- The Probability of Reaching the North Pole Discussed , Additional Instances of Navigators ... , and Observations on the Floating Ice ... -- followed in 1775 and 1776, and were then collected in Barrington's Miscellanies . The tracts comprise information compiled from the accounts of early navigators, supplemented with the answers supplied by fishing and whaling captains whom Barrington questioned about to the ice conditions in the north Greenland Sea and Baffin Bay, and enjoyed great public and specialist interest. In 1818, due to renewed interest in reaching the North Pole and the North-West Passage, the astronomer and physicist Mark Beaufoy (1764-1827) reissued the Tracts , supplemented with a new appendix and map. (2)
DAINES BARRINGTON (1727-1800) 'Tracts on the Possibility of Reaching the North Pole', in: Miscellanies . London: J. Nichols, 1781, pp. 2i- 2viii and 1-124. 4° (260 x 206mm). 2 engraved plates and 2 maps (maps bound in reverse order), one folding. 5 letterpress tables, one folding, and letterpress tables in the text. (Variable light spotting, a few leaves with light marginal dampstaining, folding map trimmed, lacking Barrington's 'Introduction' to Maurelle's 'Journal', pp. *3O4-7.) Contemporary English tree calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in one (extremities a little rubbed and chipped, rebacked retaining original lettering-piece). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF THE TRACTS AND FIRST EDITION OF THE MISCELLANIES . Cox II, p. 25; Hill 56; Howes B-177; Lada-Mocarski 34; Sabin 3628. DAINES BARRINGTON . The Possibility of Approaching the North Pole Asserted ... with an Appendix, Containing Papers on the Same Subject and on a North West Passage , edited by Mark Beaufoy. London: Charles Wood for T. and J. Allman, W.H. Reid, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818. 8° (214 x 130mm). Half-title, title with woodcut vignette. Engraved folding map by J. Smith (Variable light spotting and offsetting, very light dampstaining on map.) Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, titled in one, others with anchor tools (somewhat rubbed, upper joint split, short tears on spine). SECOND, EXPANDED AND FIRST SEPARATE COLLECTED EDITION. Arctic Bibliography 1092; Hill 57 ('quite uncommon'); Sabin 3629. THE FIRST AND SECOND COMPLETE EDITIONS OF BARRINGTON'S CELEBRATED TRACTS . Barrington's interest in polar exploration and the North-West Passage had first manifested itself while he was a member of the Council of the Royal Society, where he suggested that the Society should approach his friend John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich and First Lord of the Admiralty with a proposal for an expedition; Sandwich persuaded King George III to support the expedition and it sailed in 1773 under the command of Constantine John Phipps (cf. lot 101, Phipps's A Voyage Towards The North Pole ). These three tracts -- The Probability of Reaching the North Pole Discussed , Additional Instances of Navigators ... , and Observations on the Floating Ice ... -- followed in 1775 and 1776, and were then collected in Barrington's Miscellanies . The tracts comprise information compiled from the accounts of early navigators, supplemented with the answers supplied by fishing and whaling captains whom Barrington questioned about to the ice conditions in the north Greenland Sea and Baffin Bay, and enjoyed great public and specialist interest. In 1818, due to renewed interest in reaching the North Pole and the North-West Passage, the astronomer and physicist Mark Beaufoy (1764-1827) reissued the Tracts , supplemented with a new appendix and map. (2)
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