The U S Grinnell Expedition In Search Of Sir John Franklin a Personal Narrative

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1853 FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. Original ribbed brown percaline cloth with gilt decoration front, debossed borders front, gilt lettering spine with debossed rules, debossed decoration and borders rear (mirroring the front but without gilt), pale yellow EPs (possibly original, but seemingly too thick… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1854. First Edition. Octavo. Second issue. 552pp., 12 engraved plates and textual woodcuts, three maps of which one is folding. Kane was a medical doctor and entered the navy in order to travel. He was wounded in the Mexican-American war. He volunteered to join in the rescue mission in 1850-51 in search of Sir… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. First edition, Second Issue, with "1854" date on title page. Mezzotint frontispiece by John Sartain, folding engraved map of "Arctic Regions" by Schott, map of "Baffin's Bay", 12 engraved and lithographed plates, numerous wood engraved vignettes.xi, [1], [13]-552 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half brown calf and marlbed boards and edges. Covers a… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. A good copy, the spine faded and partly split along joint, some intermittent spotting and browning, library label on spine and card at rear. 8vo. 552 pages. Mezzotint frontispiece by John Sartain, map of "Baffin's Bay", 12 engraved and lithographed plates, numerous wood engraved vignettes. Lacks the folding map. Original cloth, stamp-embossed,… Read more about this item

New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1854.. publisher's cloth.. Old pencil ownership signatures; spine sunned; extremities of spine and corners frayed; tight and sound.. 8vo,. Folding map (repaired with document-repair tape at one edge and fold)..

New York: Harper & Brothers , 1854. 8vo, original cloth, gilt vignette on front cover, spine lettered in gilt, illustrated with 8 lithographed plates and 5 mezzotint plates, wood engravings in text, three charts (one of them folding), 552 pp. Spine faded, covers with marginal sunning, some wear at ends and corners, folding chart with some folds and tears… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers , 1854. 8vo, original cloth, gilt vignette on front cover, spine lettered in gilt, illustrated with 8 lithographed plates and 5 mezzotint plates, wood engravings in text, three charts (one of them folding), 552 pp. Wear to spine ends and corners, light foxing to plates, signature on endpapers, folding plate creased in margin; otherwise… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1857. Hardcover. Brown blindstamped cloth/gilt. "New edition." Single volume complete. Stains to rear cover else tight and square, corners lightly bumped, minor foxing. Frontis, plates, fold out map. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 552+ pages .

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1854.. 8vo. 552 pp. 14 plates + 3 maps. Original cloth. Front free endpaper removed. Wear to edge and some creasing to fold-out map. Boards rubbed with wear to corners, spine tips and spine edges, else a good sound copy..

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