Polar.- Lord Grenville's copy.- Parry (Capt. William Edward) 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 Gripper...with an Appendix [&] A Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry's Voyage, 2 vol. in 1, with tipped-in errata slip, 14 engraved or aquatint plates and 6 maps (4 folding), Supplement with 6 engraved plates but lacking half-title, folding chart at p.271 with very short tear without loss, 1821-24; Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage...Performed in the Years 1821-22-23, 31 engraved or lithographed plates and plans, some aquatint, and 8 large folding engraved maps and panoramas, 1824, together 3 works in 2 vol., first editions, bookplate of Elizabeth K. Staudt, some light offsetting, some foxing and light browning, water-stained, uniformly bound in contemporary polished calf, covers with central gilt arms of Grenville, spines gilt and with olive morocco label, light spotting, water-stained and rubbed, vol. 1 with backstrip peeled away from upper joint and upper cover detached, [Hill 1311; Sabin 58864], John Murray, 4to.
⁂ Provenance: William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron (1759-1834) British Prime Minister (1806-1807) and Chancellor of Oxford University (1810-1834).
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