A Summer Search for Sir John Franklin; with a Peep into the Polar Basin.
Book Description
First edition. 8vo. pp. [i, half-title], xxi, 232; three coloured litho. plates inc. frontis., one extending litho. plate, one folding map; repairs to folds of map, extending plate with repair to one fold and slightly frayed to outer margin, else very good in contemporary full red prize calf, spine elaborately gilt, a handsome copy.
Dealer Notes
Edward Augustus Inglefield led this 1852 search for Sir John Franklin’s expedition, whose ships Erebus and Terror were lost in the Arctic following their departure from Britain in 1845. The expedition charted about 1000km of new coast, and discovered Inglefield Gulf, before investigating Jones Sound, Lancaster Sound, Barrow Strait and Beechey Island, from this point returning to Britain.
Author
Inglefield, E. A.
Date
1853
Binding
Contemporary full red prize calf
Publisher
London: Thomas Harrison
Condition
See description
Pages
xxi, 232
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