Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of North-West Passage,: and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Y, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. ... Including the Reports of Commander, now Captain, James Clark Ross .... and the Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole.

first edition large 4to. (29.7 x 23.4 cms.) [6], xxxiv, 740pp., 31 plates and maps (including steel engraved views, 3 views printed in colours, and a large folding map at the rear), original green cloth on sides with a relatively modern tan calf spine, spine panelled by gilt highlighted raised bands and with black and citron morocco labels gilt lettered, barely perceptible old library blind stamp on fore-edge of title page and of blank margin of a few plates, very inconspicuous archival tissue reinforcement on verso of some folds of folding map, some foxing (mainly minor) to plates, else a very good copy.
Inscribed at upper corner of title page "Lady [Annesley? erased]/ May 17th 1835"

ABBEY Travel 636 SABIN 73381 Arctic Bibliograpy 14866 Hill 1490
After his disastrous voyage of 1818, the Admiralty refused to allow Ross to lead another Arctic expedition until 1829. With assistance from gin magnate Felix Booth and with contributions by Ross himself, he commanded the steam vessel Victory with his nephew James Clark Ross as second in command. Ross travelled through Lancaster Sound into Prince Regent inlet and on to Boothia Peninsula, while on the way finding remnants of Parry's ship Fury which had been wrecked on North Somerset Island. In searching for a passage south from Regent's inlet, the Victory was stopped by ice, and Ross and his men spent the winter of 1829-1830 in Felix harbour. In the summer of 1830, the ship made some progress and got a few miles further south to winter in Victoria Harbour. However it remained firmly lodged in the ice and in May 1832 was abandoned. Ross and his men made their way to Fury Beach, where they passed yet another winter in a hut built from the wreck of the Fury and managed to survive by eating an Inuit diet and supplies found at Parry's wreck. In the summer of 1833, they succeeded in reaching Ross's old ship, the whaler Isabella, in Lancaster Sound and used it to return to England. Remarkably, it was the same vessel which Ross had commanded on his first voyage. The voyage, remarkable for the length of time spent in the ice, yielded much in the way of scientific observations, including information on natural history, meteorology, navigation, and ethnology. James Clark Ross was also able to discover the Magnetic North Pole.