[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION] two titles relating to south american exploration A Voyage Towards The South Pole... Containing an Examination of the Antarctic Sea... and a Visit to Tierra del Fuego… With a Particular Account of the inhabitants... Navigation of Cape Horn... London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with six plates (two folding) - including a hand-colored frontispiece - and eight maps (six folding). Old calf, worn, crudely rebacked; hinges crudely repaired, with some offsetting, scattered foxing and spotting, dampstaining to the plates following pp. 34 and 44 and the intervening text leaves, moderate foxing to backs of folding plates, some darkening at edges of same and a few of the maps, lacking advertisements. Ex-library with book-plate on front paste-down and call number in pencil on title-page. Sabin, 103431; Rosove, 345A1. The first party to have wintered in the Antarctic regions. Weddell, H.A. Voyage dans Le Nord de la Bolivie et dans les parties voisines du Perou ou visite au district aurifere de Tipuani Paris and London: P. Bertrand and H. Bailliere, 1853. First edition. 8vo. With tinted lithographic frontispiece, one tinted lithographic plate, one folding map, 4 pp. of musical notations. Contemporary quarter black morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, spine gilt, minor wear except small blister at top edge of front cover; marbled endpapers; all edges speckled; moderate foxing to plates, title-page, front and back matter. Ex-library with book-plate on front paste-down and call number in pencil on same and on title-page. Regarded as one of the most significant 19th century voyages to South America. PROVENANCE: The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Alexander Weddell, Richmond, Virginia. Deaccessioned by The Virginia House Museum to benefit future preservation, acquisitions, and care of collections.