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M'CORMICK, Deputy Inspector General R[obert] (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… London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1884. Large 8vos. Profusely illustrated with frontispiece portraits, folding panoramas of ice in the Ross Sea, maps, plates. 2 volumes. 432; 412, [16, ads] pp. Publisher's full blue cloth, front boards decoratively stamped in black and gilt, spines lettered in gilt, brown coated endleaves (spines toned and chipped, some rubbing, toning to boards, front hinges starting, several gutters starting, text and plates toned, several leaves in volume II unopened). Very good. FIRST EDITION OF THIS "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). Taurus 10. Arctic Bibliography 10582.