‎WEDDELL, JAMES.‎
‎Voyage towards the South Pole, performed in the Years 1822-24. Containing an Examination of the Antarctic Sea, to the seventy-fourth Degree of Latitude: and a Visit to Tierra del Fuego, with a particular Account of the Inhabitants. To which is added, ...‎

‎London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and blindtooled. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamps on title-page. IV,324 pp., 7 folded engraved maps, 1 lithographed plate in colour, 2 lithographed folded panoramas, 4 engraved plates. Plates with a bit of foing and marginal brownspots. Text clean and fine.‎

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‎Scarce second edition, but expanded, of this classic in antarctic conquest. Auctioned and sold copies obviously collates differently in relation to maps and plates. - Sabin, 102431.‎