Lot 2208: ROSS, JOHN. 1777-1856.

Explanation and Answer to Mr. John Braithwaite's Supplement to Captain Sir John Ross's Narrative of a Second Voyage.... [London]: A. W. Webster, [1835]. 4to (273 x 219 mm). 8pp. Original printed wrappers, title on front. Fine. Sir John Ross's vessel the Victory had supplementary steam power, and during his voyage the engines failed, and the Victory had to be abandoned in the ice of Victoria Harbour. Ross violently attacked his engineers, Braithwaite and Ericsson, over the faulty engines, and Braithwaite answered him in his "Supplement." This pamphlet is Ross's Answer to that supplement, and vituperative exchanges carried on. Ross asked the publisher in a letter to The Times to give this free to anyone who might ask for it, and it was later included with the Appendix volume to Ross' Second Voyage. Sabin 73370 (citing incorrect date).