A Series of Fourteen Sketches Made During the Voyage Up Wellington Channel in Search of Sir John Franklin, K.C.H., and the Missing Crews of the H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror; Together with a Short Account of Each Drawing.

Name: A Series of Fourteen Sketches Made During the Voyage Up Wellington Channel in Search of Sir John Franklin, K.C.H., and the Missing Crews of the H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror; Together with a Short Account of Each Drawing.
Author: May, Commander Walter W.

Book Description

Tall folio (37 X 28.3 cm.) Bound in modern half polished red calf and marbled boards with leather corners to match. Gilt titling on the spine. End papers to match the boards. Bookplate on front pastedown. 14 hand coloured lithographic images on 13 sheets. The occasional bit of spotting on the edges of the images. A fine clean example for the most part.

Dealer Notes

T.P.L. 3454, Sabin 47083. Rare. This is the copy that belonged to Adolphus Greely, the American Arctic explorer. He has signed it on the bottom of the title page and marked it “Valuable” The most recent owner was Norman R. Bobins, the famous collector of American Colour plate books, and has his bookplate. One of only four different Arctic "Colour plate books" produced during the Search for Franklin period. In our opinion this title being the rarest. Not in the first two vols of the Arctic Biblio. The exquisite images show the ships caught up in the ice, sledging operations, and a group of Franklin artifacts brought back by John Rae.

Author May, Commander Walter W.

Publisher Day and Son

Price: £8600.00

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A Series of Fourteen Sketches Made During the Voyage Up Wellington Channel in Search of Sir John Franklin, K.C.H., and the Missing Crews of the H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror; Together with a Short Account of Each Drawing.

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A Series of Fourteen Sketches Made During the Voyage Up Wellington Channel in Search of Sir John Franklin, K.C.H., and the Missing Crews of the H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror; Together with a Short Account of Each Drawing.

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