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Franklin Search Expeditions
John J.SHILLINGLAW. A Narrative of Arctic Discovery, from the earliest period to the present time. With details of the measures adopted by Her Majesty's Government for the relief of the expedition under Sir John Franklin. London: William Shoberl, 1850. 8° (197 x 124mm). 2pp. publisher's advertisments. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 folding lithographic maps in pocket at front. (Tears to maps.) Original cloth (rebacked, old spine laid down). First edition. Rare. Arctic Bibliography 15909.
[With:]
Benjamin BELL (editor). Lieut. John Irving, R.N. of H.M.S."Terror," in Sir John Franklin's last expedition to the arctic regions A Memorial Sketch with Letters. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1881. 8° (190 x 125mm). Half-title. Photographic frontispiece and one folding plate. (Small tear to plate.) 20th-century blue half morocco gilt, spine with red morocco lettering-piece, top edge gilt. Rare.
William H. GILDER. Schwatka's search Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of Franklin records. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881. 8° (233 x 150mm). 3pp. publisher's advertisments. Wood-engraved portrait frontispiece and 11 wood-engraved plates, 2 maps, double-page, printed in three colours. Original cloth (somewhat soiled). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 5745.
Peter LIVINGSTON. Poems and Songs; with Lectures on... Burns... Gilfillan; and Letters on Dr Dick... and Sir J.Franklin & the Arctic Regions... Tenth Edition. Dundee: printed by J.Pellow, 1865. 12° (190 x 123mm). Original cloth (lightly soiled); together with 26 others (including: Berthold SEEMANN. Reise um die Welt und drei Fahrten der... Fregatte Herald, Hannover, 1858, 2 vols. in one, 8°; H.D.TRAILL. The Life of Sir John Franklin, R.N., London, 1896, 8°; [ANON.] The Search for Franklin. A Narrative of the American Expedition under Lieutenant Schwatka, 1878 to 1880, London, 1893, 8°; W.H.HOOPER. Ten Months among the Tents of the Tuski, with incidents of an arctic boat expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, London, 1853, 8°). (30)
John J.SHILLINGLAW. A Narrative of Arctic Discovery, from the earliest period to the present time. With details of the measures adopted by Her Majesty's Government for the relief of the expedition under Sir John Franklin. London: William Shoberl, 1850. 8° (197 x 124mm). 2pp. publisher's advertisments. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 folding lithographic maps in pocket at front. (Tears to maps.) Original cloth (rebacked, old spine laid down). First edition. Rare. Arctic Bibliography 15909.
[With:]
Benjamin BELL (editor). Lieut. John Irving, R.N. of H.M.S."Terror," in Sir John Franklin's last expedition to the arctic regions A Memorial Sketch with Letters. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1881. 8° (190 x 125mm). Half-title. Photographic frontispiece and one folding plate. (Small tear to plate.) 20th-century blue half morocco gilt, spine with red morocco lettering-piece, top edge gilt. Rare.
William H. GILDER. Schwatka's search Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of Franklin records. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881. 8° (233 x 150mm). 3pp. publisher's advertisments. Wood-engraved portrait frontispiece and 11 wood-engraved plates, 2 maps, double-page, printed in three colours. Original cloth (somewhat soiled). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 5745.
Peter LIVINGSTON. Poems and Songs; with Lectures on... Burns... Gilfillan; and Letters on Dr Dick... and Sir J.Franklin & the Arctic Regions... Tenth Edition. Dundee: printed by J.Pellow, 1865. 12° (190 x 123mm). Original cloth (lightly soiled); together with 26 others (including: Berthold SEEMANN. Reise um die Welt und drei Fahrten der... Fregatte Herald, Hannover, 1858, 2 vols. in one, 8°; H.D.TRAILL. The Life of Sir John Franklin, R.N., London, 1896, 8°; [ANON.] The Search for Franklin. A Narrative of the American Expedition under Lieutenant Schwatka, 1878 to 1880, London, 1893, 8°; W.H.HOOPER. Ten Months among the Tents of the Tuski, with incidents of an arctic boat expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, London, 1853, 8°). (30)
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