[8], xxxiii, [1], 740 pp. Illustrated with 31 views & charts, including steel-engravings, lithographs (6 of which are in color) & 3 color mezzotints; large hand-colored folding chart. (4to) 11x9, original cloth rebacked with original gilt-lettered spine strip laid on. First Edition.

Arctic Bib. 14866; Field 1321; Hill p.261 - "Narrative and scientific results of expedition to Boothia Peninsula in the Victory, and return by sledge, boat, and the Isabella. Expedition was financed by Felix Booth and led by Sir John Ross, with his nephew, James C. Ross, second in command and head naturalist" - Arctic Bib. The expedition survived for four winters in the Arctic, during which James Clark Ross discovered the North Magnetic Pole. Field lauds the "sumptuous printing which makes every page a picture, has even its luxury enhanced by the splendid steel engravings and lithographs... Everywhere through the narrative is interwoven the records of aboriginal life as it appeared to the explorers...."