Item #021975 The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, a Personal Narrative. Elisha Kent Kane.
The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, a Personal Narrative
The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, a Personal Narrative

The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, a Personal Narrative

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1854. First Edition. Octavo. Item #021975

Second issue. 552pp., 12 engraved plates and textual woodcuts, three maps of which one is folding. Kane was a medical doctor and entered the navy in order to travel. He was wounded in the Mexican-American war. He volunteered to join in the rescue mission in 1850-51 in search of Sir John Franklin in the Arctic region. Nine ships spent sixteen months in the Arctic. He would later join another expedition in search of Franklin. This time he would be Commander of the expedition. Bound in publisher's brown pictorial gilt cloth depicting sailing ships, fish and anchor within blind stamped diamond frame, pictorial gilt spine, pale yellow endpapers, upper board has dampstaining to lower corner, plates and a few pages have a stain. For some odd reason, the stain did not got throughout the leaves, very small tear to head. A very good copy.

Price: $175.00

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