Sir John Franklin.

£1,500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Scarce history of the disappearance of Franklin's expedition. Skewes was one of the first to put all the information from the subsequent searches into a single highly digestible narrative of the fateful events that stranded the Terror and Erebus. First edition; 8vo (19 x 13.5 cm); 2 in-text maps; publisher's original blue-green cloth, upper board and spine lettered in gilt, a little rubbed with a few bubbles to cloth, a very good copy; xvi, 243, [1] pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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