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 & 1820.1821

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, First edition, 8vo (215 x 135 mm), xi, [1], 320pp., without half-title, frontispiece of a large folding engraved chart (browned and offset onto title), one engraved map (also browned and offset), woodcut illustrs., in the text, cont. half calf, marbled boards, slightly rubbed otherwise and very good copy. "The journal of the first voyage commanded by William Edward Parry. On this expedition, Fisher was assistant surgeon aboard the Hecla. He gives an account of the voyage through Lancaster Sound to Melville Island in the western part of the Parry Archipelago, in sear of the Northwest Passage."—Hill. Hill, Pacific Voyages, 605 (second edition).