COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Record
Author:
Ross, John, Sir, 1777-1856.
Author (contributor):
Indigenous Languages Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
Author (contributor):
Great Britain. Admiralty.
Author (contributor):
Zimmerman, Helen B.
Author (contributor):
Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820
Author (contributor):
Hosack, David, 1769-1835
Author (contributor):
Brown, Robert, 1773-1858.
Title:
A voyage of discovery : made under the orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay, and inquiring into the probability of a North-West Passage. /
Publisher:
John Murray Albemarle-Street
Begin Publication Date:
1819
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991009944249706966
Permanent Call Number:
1-SIZE D819 .R824v
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 02298
Subjects:
Isabella (Ship : 1818-1834)
Subjects:
Alexander (Ship)
Subjects:
Eskimo languages--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Subjects:
Baffin Bay (North Atlantic Ocean)--Discovery and exploration.
Subjects:
Northwest Passage--Discovery and exploration.
Subjects:
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration.
Subjects:
Indian linguistics--Eskimo languages.
General Note:
Colophon reads: Printed by W. Clowes, Northumberland-Court, Strand.; "Directions for placing the plates", p. [1], 3rd count, accounts for only a frontispiece, 24 unnumbered plates, and 6 unnumbered plates bound after the final page of the Appendix.; "A comparative list of the northern and southern Eskimaux language" and "Words the same in both dialects": p. 122-123.; Appendixes, of scientific observations and reports: p. [i]-cxliv.; "Botanical appendix" by Robert Brown, F.R.S.: p. [cxxxvii]-cxliv.; Signatures: [A]² 1-5⁴ (5₁ verso blank) B-2I⁴ (C4 verso blank) 2K² a⁶ (-a6) (a1, a2, a3 versos blank) b-s⁴ (e2, e3, i1, i2, m1, p1, s1, s2 versos blank); Three folded tables follow plate entitled "Explanation", printed on verso only, and intended to be bound after p. cxliv, misbound after p. cxxxvi.; Many plates are hand colored.
Local Note:
John Carter Brown Library copies 1 and 2 possibly grangerized and include more plates that what has been accounted for according to the binder's directions on p. [1], 3rd count.; John Carter Brown Library copy 1 imperfect: wanting plate bound to face p. 46; plate intended to be bound to face p. 47 is misbound to face p. 46; three folded tables and two folded views intended to be bound after p. cxliv misbound after p. cxxxvi; some other plates bound out of sequence according to the binder's directions on p. [1], 3rd count.; John Carter Brown Library copy 2 imperfect: wanting plate entitled "Explanation"; three folded tables intended to be bound to face p. cxliv bound after p. [cvi], cx, and cxiii; two folded views intended to be bound p. cxliv bound after p. lxxii and lxxviii; some other plates bound out of sequence according to the binder's directions on p. [1], 3rd count.; John Carter Brown Library copy 1 bound in contemporary full treed calf; both boards detached.; John Carter Brown Library copy 2 bound in contemporary full speckled calf; both boards detached and spine lacking.; John Carter Brown Library copy 2 the gift of Helen B. Zimmerman.; Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 2: for D[avid]. Hosack from Sir Joseph Banks: presentation inscription on verso of title page leaf.