Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55

by Elisha Kane

$375 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856. First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, pp. 464; 467, 1 ; engraved portrait and vignette half-title in each volume, 4 maps 2 folding , 18 beautifully engraved plates and approximately 265 other engraved illustrations in the text; publisher's brown blindstamped cloth, gilt spines; volume I slighly skewed, and with one small break at the top of the spine, else about fine. Under the auspices of the U.S. Navy, Kane set out in

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