FISHER, Alexander. A Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic regions, in His Majesty’s ships Hecla and Griper, in the years 1819 & 1820. L: A. & R. Spottiswoode for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. Third edition.
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8vo (228 x 145 mm). 2 engraved maps (one folding); 2pp. publisher's advertisements at front. (Short marginal tear to folding map, some pale spotting to a few leaves.) ORIGINAL BOARDS, UNCUT, original printed label on spine (some light wear to extremities, minor chipping to spine label); cloth folding case. Provenance: Lt. Col. Pepper (contemporary signature on first text leaf); C. P. Archer (bookseller's label on front cover); collector's bookplate, a few pencil marks.
Third edition, one of four editions published in the same year, of the journal of the first voyage commanded by William Edward Parry. Fisher was assistant surgeon aboard the Hecla, and his account describes the voyage through Lancaster Sound to Melville Island in the western part of the Parry Archipelago in search of the Northwest Passage. Arctic Bibliography 5055 ("Four editions were published in London, 1821, without change of text excepting typographic corrections"); Hill 605 (second edition); Sabin 24453; Staton & Tremaine TPL 1193.