This satisfying set of Parry’s voyages includes both the supplement to the second voyage as well as the North Georgia Gazette.
Parry had already sailed to the Arctic with Ross before setting out on the first of his three voyages, during which he discovered Melville Island and made extensive meteorological observations. On this his second voyage Parry was iced up, as before, for several months and was therefore able to make various land excursions, during which he made an extensive study of the Inuit and their life - well illustrated in the plates after drawings by the foremost arctic illustrator, Capt Lyon.
They spent the winter to 1819-20 in a cove on Melville Island where “Parry did everything possible to keep his crew occupied. There was constant activity, plays were acted at the ‘Royal Arctic Theatre’ and Sabine edited a periodical journal, The North Georgia Gazette, and Winter Chronicle” (Howgego).
First voyage: Arctic Bibliography, 13145; Hill, 1311; Sabin, 58860, 58861 (Supplement). Second voyage: Arctic Bibliography, 13142; Hill, 1312; Pilling Proof-Sheets, 2914; Sabin, 58864. Third voyage: Arctic Bibliography, 13144; Hill, 1313. Fourth voyage: Arctic Bibliography, 13146; Sabin, 58868. North Georgia Gazette: Arctic Bibliography, 12547. Sabin, 55714.
