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MCCORMICK, Robert (1800-1890). Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and Round the World: Being Personal Narratives of Attempts to Reach the North and South Poles; and of an Open-Boat Expedition Up the Wellington Channel in Search of Sir John Franklin and Her Majesty’s Ships “Erebus” and “Terror” in Her Majesty's Boat "Forlorn Hope." London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1884. The first edition, with the large lithographed panoramas of the great ice barrier in the Ross Sea . M'Cormick's work includes “a first-hand account of the Ross expedition (1839-1843) by the surgeon aboard the Erebus . With large lithographed panoramas of the great ice barrier in the Ross Sea and the coastline of Victoria Land, he conveys the sense of awed wonder experienced by all aboard Ross' ships when the true enormity of the Antarctic continent revealed itself for the first time” (Taurus). Arctic Bib. 10582 (calling for fewer plates); Renard 1051; Rosove 221.A1e; Spence 747; Taurus 10. Two volumes, large octavo (254 x 163mm). 63 plates including frontispiece portraits, some folding; and 2 maps one of which is color and folding. 16 ad pp. at rear of vol. 2. Publishers’ blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black (spine ends chipped, hinges cracked, vol. 1 spine a little sunned). Provenance : William Herbert Hobbs (American geologist, 1864-1953; bookplates) – High Latitude, Bainbridge Island.