ELISHA KENT KANE (1823-1857)
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ELISHA KENT KANE (1823-1857)
The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. A Personal Narrative, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853.
8° (231 x 148mm). Frontispiece, dedication page, numerous engraved illustrations, one full-page, 13 lithographic plates including 5 engraved by J. Sartain from drawings by J. Hamilton after sketches by Kane, most with tissue guards, 3 charts, one folding, Appendices A-F, advertisement pages (occasional light spotting, creases to folding chart). Original dark brown cloth gilt, upper cover with vignette of the ships from Kane's sketches with dolphins and anchor below within blind-stamped lozenge, repeated on spine and in blind on lower cover (gilt on spine faded, head and foot of spine lightly rubbed). Provenance: inscribed, 'L S. F' in brown ink on frontispiece.
THE RARE FIRST EDITION of Kane's narrative of the First Grinnell Expedition, one of some 20 copies of the 1853 edition to survive a fire in the publisher's warehouse. Elisha Kent Kane MD USN, a naval surgeon, served on the Advance with Lieutenant J. De Haven, on the expedition of 1850-51 to search for John Franklin, privately funded by the New York businessman Henry Grinnell. The narrative is based on Kane's daily journal, with accounts of the organisation of the expedition on the Advance and the Rescue to Barrow Strait, Lancaster Sound and the Wellington Channel. The work includes Kane's observations of the eskimos, wildlife and the drift of the ice, together with his visual records in the form of engravings after his original sketches. Arctic Bibliography 8381; Sabin 36998.
The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. A Personal Narrative, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853.
8° (231 x 148mm). Frontispiece, dedication page, numerous engraved illustrations, one full-page, 13 lithographic plates including 5 engraved by J. Sartain from drawings by J. Hamilton after sketches by Kane, most with tissue guards, 3 charts, one folding, Appendices A-F, advertisement pages (occasional light spotting, creases to folding chart). Original dark brown cloth gilt, upper cover with vignette of the ships from Kane's sketches with dolphins and anchor below within blind-stamped lozenge, repeated on spine and in blind on lower cover (gilt on spine faded, head and foot of spine lightly rubbed). Provenance: inscribed, 'L S. F' in brown ink on frontispiece.
THE RARE FIRST EDITION of Kane's narrative of the First Grinnell Expedition, one of some 20 copies of the 1853 edition to survive a fire in the publisher's warehouse. Elisha Kent Kane MD USN, a naval surgeon, served on the Advance with Lieutenant J. De Haven, on the expedition of 1850-51 to search for John Franklin, privately funded by the New York businessman Henry Grinnell. The narrative is based on Kane's daily journal, with accounts of the organisation of the expedition on the Advance and the Rescue to Barrow Strait, Lancaster Sound and the Wellington Channel. The work includes Kane's observations of the eskimos, wildlife and the drift of the ice, together with his visual records in the form of engravings after his original sketches. Arctic Bibliography 8381; Sabin 36998.
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