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Creator:: Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855
Title:: 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 Griper, under the orders of William Edward Parry : with an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations.
Published / Created:: London : John Murray, Publisher to the Admiralty, and Board of Longtitude, MDCCCXXI [1821]
London : Printed by William Clowes, Northumberland-court,
Physical Description:: [8], xxix, [3], 310, [2], clxxix, [3] pages, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:: Books
Notes:: BEIN Zc90 +821pa: Bound with The North Georgia gazette and winter chronicle. Bookplate: Bibliothèque de Mr. le comte Riant.
Subject Terms:: Northwest Passage. | Hecla (Ship) | Griper (Ship) | Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions. | Voyages of discovery | Botany -- Arctic regions. | Zoology -- Arctic regions. | Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- British. | Natural history -- Arctic regions. | Riant, Paul Edouard Didier, comte, 1836–1888 -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:: Engravings -- 1821. | Aquatints -- 1821. | Maps.
Contributors:: Brown, Robert, 1773–1858. | Clowes, William, printer. | Murray, John, 1778–1843, publisher. | Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788–1883. | König, Charles Dietrich Eberhard, 1774–1851 | Kirby, William, 1759–1850. | Gray, John Edward, 1800–1875. | Westall, William, 1781–1850, engraver. | Beechey, Frederick William, 1796–1856, illustrator. | Hoppner, Henry Parkins, 1795–1833, illustrator.