The / U.S. Grinnell Expedition / In Search Of Sir John Franklin / A Personal Narrative

Kane, Elisha Kent

Verlag: Harper & Bros; NY; 552 pp.; ; F-; 1853/1854 (Second Ed.), 1854

Beschreibung

____Collated and complete copy of the second edition. _____ Considerable information on the native Eskimo peoples encountered. _____ With all 13 full page engravings and numerous intertext vignettes. _____ With the requisite 9.5 x 14" folding map and two single page maps of the Arctic region explored by the expedition. _____ There is a dampline to the bottom half of the map, page signature at 321-336 as well as a few of the full page plates. _____ According to one source most of the first edition was lost in a fire at the Harper's warehouse. _____ Since the adjacent pages are unmarked we think this occurred before the sheets were bound up._____ This may be physical evidence of the warehouse fire and these sheets may have been salvaged for this edition. _____. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 02767

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The / U.S. Grinnell Expedition / In Search ...

Verlag: Harper & Bros; NY; 552 pp.; ; F-; 1853/1854 (Second Ed.)

Erscheinungsdatum: 1854

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good