KANE, Elisha Kent.
Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, In the Years 1853,'54,'55.
Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson , 1856.
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Item Number: RRB-150953
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First Edition of Elisha Kent Kane's Arctic Explorations
First edition of this firsthand account to search for the lost British explorer Sir John Franklin. Octavo, two volumes, bound in contemporary three quarters close-grain green morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispieces, separate title page vignettes, illustrated with over 300 engravings on steel and wood from sketches by the author, including 20 full page plates and four maps including two folding. First printing issue point of "Open Sea" rather than "Kane's Sea" on map in volume one. In near fine condition. A very sharp set.
U.S. naval physician Elisha Kane's 'Arctic Explorations' is an account of one of the last of the expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin and the Northwest Passage, the second such search and rescue financed by American philanthropist Henry Grinnell. Kane recounts his voyage through Baffin Bay and into Smith Sound, describing extreme winter conditions, scurvy, starvation, and the eventual abandonment of the icebound ship Advance. These expeditions had "no parallel in maritime annals, and which, while prosecuting the main object of the voyages, turned the map of the Arctic regions north of America from a blank void into a grim but distinct representation of islands, straits, and seas" (DNB).
Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, In the Years 1853,'54,'55.
$1,800.00
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