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ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS: The Second and Last United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin...With a Biographical Sketch of the Author by Prof. Charles W. Shields
de Kane Elisha Kent, M.D., U.S.N
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Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1881. Early issue in one volume. beautifully illustrated with many elegant steel engraved full-page plates, and more than two hundred and fifty wood engravings, from original designs. Thick 8vo, bound ln the publisher's original red-brown polished cloth, with gilt lettering to the spine panel and gilt pictorial device and lettering to the upper cover, both covers blocked and decorated in blind. 766 pp. A fine copy, clean and bright, with strong hinges., the issue guards are still intact, some light mellowing to the spine panel and a bit of shelving evidence. A very handsome and well preserved copy indeed. FIRST EDITION THUS OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK. Doctor Kane had been the ship's surgeon on the First Ginnell Expedition of 1850 and upon that mission's unsuccessful return he immediately set out in command of the Second. That mission was also a failure in that no trace of the lost Franklin Party was ever found, but these missions did achieve many important geographical and map-making successes.
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- ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS: The Second and Last United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin...With a Biographical Sketch of the Author by Prof. Charles W. Shields
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- Kane Elisha Kent, M.D., U.S.N
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- American Publishing Company
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- 1881
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