Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the years 1850-1851.

Name: Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the years 1850-1851.
Author: Osborn, Sherard.

Book Description

First edition. 8vo. pp. vii, [i], 320; 4 coloured lithographic plates, one folding map; slight offsetting from frontis. to title-page, Eton prize inscription to front blank, else very good in contemporary full calf, gilt decorated spine with contrasting label, slightly bumped to corners of boards, a handsome copy.

Dealer Notes

AB 12899. Osborn commanded the ‘Pioneer’ under Capt. H. T. Austin in the search for Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition. The ships travelled via Baffin Bay, Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait before wintering at Griffith Island. Osborn’s account describes the West Greenland Eskimos, as well as the various sledge journeys undertaken on the expedition.

Author Osborn, Sherard.

Date 1852

Binding Contemporary full calf

Publisher London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

Condition See description

Pages vii, [i], 320

Price: £975.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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