8vo (211 x 130 mm). Hand-colored engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved plates, 8 maps (6 folding), and 2 folding coastal profiles. (Folding maps with a few tears occasionally repaired verso, spotting to some text and plates.) 20th-century half blue morocco gilt. Provenance: Acquired Maggs Bros. Ltd; collector's bookplate, a few pencil marks. 

Second edition, expanded to include Weddell's "Observations on the Probability of Reaching the South Pole" and the account of Brisbane's voyage to Tierra del Fuego. Weddell sailed further south than anyone before him and discovered the sea which is now named after him. This work is "interesting not only as the record of a voyage to what was then and for long after the highest southern latitude reached, but also as giving a survey of the South Shetlands, where many of the names--as 'Boyd's Straits,' 'Duff's Straits,' 'Sartoroius Island'--recall the names of the captains with whom Weddell had served" (DNB). Abbey Travel 609; Renard 1681; Rosove 345.B1a ("scarce"); Sabin 102431; Spence 1248.