A Series Of Fourteen Sketches Made During The Voyage Up Wellington Channel In Search Of Sir John

by Lieutenant Walter William May

$10,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Text, original printed paper wrappers. Housed together in a modern half green morocco folding-case. One of the principal visual records of the search for Franklin and a rare work of Arctic views. Walter May, a trained marine artist, served as a lieutenant on Sir Edward Belcher's expedition on the Assistance, which searched the Wellington Channel between 1852-54 for the missing Franklin. May's Fourteen Sketches provides a spectacular record of this last of the

• Binding: Leather

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.