North-West Passage Collection of travel narratives

North-West Passage Collection of travel narratives comprising: Franklin, Sir John. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22. London: John Murray, 1823 [i.e. 1828]. 4to (27.5 x 21.2cm), 20th-century blue half morocco gilt, top edge gilt, 31 plates (including 9 hand-coloured aquatints, 2 hand-coloured engravings, the rest uncoloured engravings) and 4 engraved folding maps, plates offset, uncoloured engraved plates and adjacent text-leaves browned, maps mounted on linen stubs and somewhat spotted and offset, one map ('An Outline' with short closed tear to inner fold), manuscript date to title-page in blue ink [Abbey Travel 635; Nissen ZBI 1419; Sabin 25624]; Idem. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827. London: John Murray, 1828. 4to (27.5 x 21.2cm), 20th-century blue half morocco gilt uniform with the preceding work, 31 engraved plates, 6 engraved folding maps, light browning to plates, maps mounted on linen stubs, browning to 'Discoveries made by British Officers' map, variable light offsetting to others, repaired tears to text-leaves P4 and (in Appendix) d3, manuscript date to title-page in blue ink [Abbey Travel 635; Sabin 26228]; Parry, William Edward. Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. London: John Murray, 1821. 4to (27 x 20.5cm), 20th-century half calf, [8] xxix [3] 310 [5] iv-clxxix pp., 14 engraved or aquatint plates, 6 engraved charts (several folding), errata slip, Appendix sig. c1 folding, plates and charts variably spotted and offset, nos. 16-18 bound out of order, repaired closed tears in Y3 and 'Chart of ... Baffin's Bay' [Nissen ZBI 3096; Sabin 58860]; Idem. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. London: John Murray, 1824. 4to (27 x 20.5cm), 20th-century half calf uniform with the preceding work, [8] xxx [2] 571 [1] pp., 31 engraved or aquatint plates and charts including frontispiece, 4 engraved folding charts, 4 engraved folding plates of coastal profiles, variable spotting to plates and adjacent text-leaves [Sabin 58864] Ross, John. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. London: A. W. Webster, 1835. First edition, 4to (30.1 x 22.8cm), contemporary tan calf decoratively tooled in gilt and blind, 30 plates and maps (engraved, lithographic or mezzotint, several hand-coloured, 'Discoveries in the Arctic Regions' map folding; lacking 'Tulluachiu and Family' plate), errata leaf (not mentioned in Abbey), inscribed 'To ... Johan Gustav Roof with the authors best regards, June 1835, John Ross' on the title-page, front joint repaired, rear joint cracked, marginal repair to title-page, offsetting and marginal tissue-consolidation to 'Discoveries' map, spotting to a few plates [Abbey Travel 636; Nissen ZBI 3481; Sabin 73381] (5) Note: Second and first editions respectively of Franklin's two works. The second edition of the Narrative of a Journey is described as such in the Introduction (p. xiv), and is extended to 784 from 768 pp.; the title-page remains dated 1823, but it was 'presumably produced to accompany the second volume' on its appearance in 1828 (Abbey).