A Summer Search for Sir John Franklin; with a Peep into the Polar Basin.
Book Description
                        First edition. 8vo. pp. [i, half-title], xxi, 232; three coloured litho. plates inc. frontis., one extending litho. plate, one folding map; repairs to folds of map, extending plate with repair to one fold and slightly frayed to outer margin, else very good in contemporary full red prize calf, spine elaborately gilt, a handsome copy.
                    
                                            Dealer Notes
                            Edward Augustus Inglefield led this 1852 search for Sir John Franklin’s expedition, whose ships Erebus and Terror were lost in the Arctic following their departure from Britain in 1845. The expedition charted about 1000km of new coast, and discovered Inglefield Gulf, before investigating Jones Sound, Lancaster Sound, Barrow Strait and Beechey Island, from this point returning to Britain.
                        
                                    
                        Author
                        Inglefield, E. A.
                    
                    
                                        
                        Date
                        1853
                    
                    
                                        
                        Binding
                        Contemporary full red prize calf
                    
                    
                                        
                        Publisher
                        London: Thomas Harrison
                    
                    
                    
                                        
                        Condition
                        See description
                    
                    
                                        
                        Pages
                        xxi, 232
                    
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