The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, a Personal Narrative
by Kane, Elisha Kent
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- first
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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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 John Franklin in the Arctic region. Nine ships spent sixteen months in the Arctic. He would later join another expedition in search of Franklin. This time he would be Commander of the expedition. Bound in publisher's brown pictorial gilt cloth depicting sailing ships, fish and anchor within blind stamped diamond frame, pictorial gilt spine, pale yellow endpapers, upper board has dampstaining to lower corner, plates and a few pages have a stain. For some odd reason, the stain did not got throughout the leaves, very small tear to head. A very good copy.
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021975
- Title
- The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, a Personal Narrative
- Author
- Kane, Elisha Kent
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1854
- Keywords
- Expedition Sir John Franklin Grinnell Maps Illustrations Engravings
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Exploration;
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Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...