2 works in one volume, 4to (270 x 212 mm). 6 engraved maps by J. Walker after John Bushnan et al. (4 folding), 9 aquatint plates by W. Westall after E.W. Beechey and H.P. Hoppner, and 5 etched plates by J. Clark after Beechey; numerous illustrations, diagrams, and letterpress tables in the text, one table folding. Errata slip tipped in at end. Supplement with 6 engraved plates. (Some spotting and offsetting.) 19th-century half calf gilt, marbled boards, by T. W. Clarke, Mansfield, with their ticket (some rubbing and light wear); board folding case. Provenance: Collector's bookplate, a few pencil marks. 

FIRST EDITION. After sailing to the Arctic under Sir John Ross in 1818, Parry was appointed to the command of this expedition in the spring of 1819. Parry "explored and named Barrow Strait, Prince Regent Inlet, and Wellington Channel. Entering what has since been called Parry or Viscount Melville Sound in September, he reached longitude 110° West, thereby earning a reward of £5,000... He also discovered Melville Island and others of the Parry Islands. 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... The immediate achievements of these voyages were the charting of hundreds of miles of coastline in the Canadian Arctic archipelago and the collection of valuable data on Arctic natural history. A supplement to the appendix containing an account of the subjects of natural history, was published at London in 1824" (Hill). Arctic Bibliography 13145; Brunet IV:387; Hill 1311 & 1312; Lowndes p.1789; Sabin 58860 and 58861.