Parry Capt William (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A reprint edition of the original 1824 edition written by the captain of the voyage to find the mythic Northwest Passage. Profusely illustrated with engravings, maps, and charts. With several full-sized fold-out maps and charts.

HARDCOVER. 1st edition thus. 571pp+maps, quarto. originally published in 1824. tight binding, glue stains to gutters, clean throughout, clean brown cloth boards with faint wear to the corners, Very Good-.

hardcover. 1969 US reprint. xxx, 571pp, maps, panoramas, one folding map has tear repaired, VG+. A scarce quality reprint. Parry sailed through Hudson and Frozen Straits, explored Repulse Bay and on to Lyon Inlet. After wintering at Winter Island he sailed northward discovering Fury and Hecla Strait and spent the second winter at Igloolik. The deteriorating health of his crew forced him to return home in October 1823. Parry's journey gives a detailed account of the voyage and explorations along the coasts of northeastern Melville Peninsula and southern Cockburn Land. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bien. 1Ş Edición. Idioma inglés. Cuatro volúmenes. Encuadernación de tapa dura original, en plena piel. Cantos dorados. Dimensiones: 14x10 ( 311, 331, 287, 256 pp. ) Primera edición. Con grabados. Algunas faltas en lomera y puntas.

HARDCOVER. 1st edition thus. 571pp+maps, quarto. originally published in 1824. tight binding, clean throughout, clean brown cloth boards with faint wear to the corners, Very Good.

hardcover. 1969 US reprint. xxx, 571pp, maps, panoramas, original brown cloth, VG+. A scarce quality reprint. The journey was undertaken in the Years 1821-22-23, in His Majsty's ships Fury and Hecla under the orders of Captain William Edward Parry, R.N., F.R.S and commander of the expedition. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

hardcover. 1969 US reprint. xxix, 310pp, clxxix, plus xii, 132pp of the North Georgia Gazette and Winter Chronicle, original brown cloth, light foreedge foxing, VG+. A scarce quality reprint. The Hecla and Griper, May 1819 - October 1820, sailed up Baffin Bay, through Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait to the south side of Melville Island where they wintered and returned to England by the same route the following year. The expedition discovered and penetrated a short distance into Prince Regent's Inlet, discovered Banks Island, and surveyed the south shores of Barrow Strait. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Leather-bound. Condition: Good. First Edition. Quarto. Full speckled calf with gilt floral chain border to both boards, Rebacked in sympathetic calf. Four raised bands (five compartments) contrasting red spine label, and gilt floral designs within compartments. Penciled note reads "First Edition", but to be safe, assuming second edition, since count of plates EXCEEDS those listed in Hill. All 20 illustrations present: six charts, four of them folding, nine engravings (some with original tissues, some detached but present) by W. Westfall from sketches by Lieuts. Frederick William Beechey, Henry Parkyns Hoppner, and several other pages of strip surveys of coastlines encountered while sailing past. A number of in-text illustrations present, as well. Indigo blue and grey stone marbled endpapers. Bookplate residue to front pastedown. Some toning, light foxing and offset throughout, but overall, tight, clean and bright. Nice copy. Important early arctic expedition. Published by the authority of the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty. 4 p. l., xxix, [2], 310, [2], clxxix, [1] p. front. (fold. chart), illus., Printed by William Clowes, Northumberland-court. Begins with Introduction which outlines scientific instruments aboard, personnel and their roles, and an " Explanation of Technical Terms Made Use of in the Course of the Following Narrative". This, followed by dedication to Lord Viscount Melville,the "Official Instructions, by the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, &c. &c. " .With a 10-part Appendix, containing the Scientific and other Observations (Going of the Chronometers, Lunar Observations, Latitudes and Longitudes by Chronometers, Observations on the Variation;and on the Magnetic Force, Table and Abstract of Days' Works, Tide Tables, "An Account of the Experiments to Determine the Acceleration of the Pendulum in Different Latitudes", and "Remarks on the State of Health and Disease on Board theHecla and Griper". "After being frozen in for ten months, the. ships were released on August 10, 1820, but the ice prevented further progress westward and Parry returned to England. .Parry made two further attempts at the North-west Passage. The immediate achievements of these voyages were the charting of hundreds of miles of coastline in the Canadian Arctic archipelago and the collecting of valuable data on Arctic natural history. In 1827 Parry tried to reach the North Pole, and he set a new northern record which stood until l876." (Hill, p.225-6) Parry's care for his men, his solution of many of the problems of wintering in the ice, and his meticulous scientific work set a pattern of Arctic exploration for a generation. Many of his young officers (notably James Clark Ross) went on to be famous explorers themselves.(ODNB).

65-76 pp. Octavo. Quires tied together with string. Single wood cut illustration below the title. Some soiling, but overall a nice crisp copy. A wonderful bit of Arctic ephemera. The actor and playwright John Thomas Haines started writing and acting in plays around 1823. The plays were generally successful and ran in regional theaters rather than main stream London.This pamphlet has a wonderful woodcut showing sailors, icebergs and Captain Parry. Also pictured are a Spanish sailor and a woman. The last paragraph states "Montague sinks to his knees with the Child in his arms. The North Poler "Hecla" glides on majestically. Captain Parry and Crew Line the deck. She fires as she passes the icebergs which immediately disappear. Great action. We have seen a playbill for a production of the play from 1829 in Manchester. It seems they went all out with the props and had Captain Parry's ship in full sail. Rare with this being only the second example we have encountered.