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[FRANKLIN, Sir John]. HOOPER, William Hulme. Ten Months Among the Tents of the Tuski, With Incidents of an Artic Boat Expeditionin Search of Sir John Franklin, as Far as the Mackenzie River, and Cape Bathurst. London: John Murray, 1853. 8o. 2-page advertisements at end. Partially colored fold-out map, 2 wood-engravings, 4 tinted lithographs, and numerous illustrations in text. Original blue cloth. Provenance: James Albert Garland, Jr. (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. As mate of the Plover, Hooper was involved in one of the earliest expeditions sent to search for the Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and his ships. Abbey Travel 641. -- KANE, Elisha Kent. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. Philadelphia: Child & Peterson, 1856. 2 volumes, 8o. Additional engraved title-pages, frontispiece portraits, 18 engraved plates, 3 maps (one folding), one folding weather chart, and numerous engraved vignettes in text. Modern green quarter morocco. FIRST EDITION. Kane served as surgeon and official historian on the first Grinnell expedition to search for Franklin in 1850. Arctic Bibliography 8373. -- BELLOT, Joseph René. Journal d'un voyage aux mers polaires.... Paris: Perrotin, 1854. 8o. Engraved frontispiece plate and folding map. Contemporary half morocco. -- COLLINSON, Richard. Journal of H.M.S. Enterprise, on the Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin's Ships... London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1889. 8o. 1 hand-colored lithographed plate, 1 photogravure, and 6 folding maps. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION. Arctic Bibliography 3351. -- M'CLINTOCK, Francis Leopold. A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions. London: John Murray, 1859. 8o. 14 wood-engraved plates, 3 folding maps (one loose in pocket), and one folding facsimile. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 43043. Together 5 works in 6 volumes, condition varies. (6)