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    Reference 2379 (659)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Kane, Elisha Kent
    Title THE U.S. GRINNELL EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, A Personal Narrative.
    Publishing Information New York: Harper and Brothers, 1854.
    Description 1st Edition - reissued 1854 (Most copies of the true first edition, were rumored to have been lost in the 1853 Harper's warehouse fire. Sabin 36998.) xi, 13-552pp, frontispiece plus 11 plates, 3 maps, (1 folding) as well as numerous wood-engraved vignettes in text. Green cloth covers with gilt vignette to front and spine, gilt titling to spine. Sponsored by New York merchant, Henry Grinnell, the expedition was mounted to search for Sir John Franklin's expedition along the shores of Barrow Straight and Viscount Melville Sound. They later became trapped in the ice and spent the winter drifting eastward our of Lancaster Sound and southward through Baffin Bay. Arctic Bibliography 8381. Previous owners signature on fep and booksellers label on front pastedown, end papers stained, shelfware, edgeworn, corners bumped, some chipping, staining and fraying to covers, spine softnening, tear to folding map, fragile but complete, pages age toned with some sporadic foxing. Overall Very Good.
    Price £95.00
    Keywords qpolarq, eskimo, arctic, polar S1-Arc
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