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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Arctic Researches, And Life Among The Esquimaux : Being The Narrative Of An Expedition In Search Of Sir John Franklin, In The Years 1860, 1861, And 1862.

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NY: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Brown cloth with bevelled edges. Minimally marked ex-library (number on spine in dark ink, removal marks on endpapers), spine heavily sunned, outer hinge splitting and tears in cloth reglued, binding loosening with several sprung signatures, LACKING MAP: Good-. 8vo. Frontispiece and vignette title page wood engraving plus many in-text wood engraving illustrations.

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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Arctic Researches, and Life Among the Esquimaux :Being the narrative of an expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, in the years 1860, 1861, and 1862.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Harper & Bros., 1865. Hardcover. Good. Large 8vo in original purple cloth, spine title in gilt. Binding tight and square, moderate rubbing to the corners, spine sunned, very shallow chipping at the top of the spine, larger chip at the bottom, 2' slit in the rear gutter, small p.o. bookplate on the front pastedown.

C2b. Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harper and Brothers and Company, Franklin Square, New York. 1865. Xxviii, 595 pgs. Illustrated with a woodcut frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 18 full page woodcut illustrations. First US Edition/First Printing. Ex-library item with typical markings present (numbers present to the spine, bookplate present to the front pastedown). Bound in pebbled cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Charles Francis Hall (c. 1821 – November 8, 1871) was an American Arctic explorer, best known for his collection of Inuit testimony regarding the 1845 Franklin Expedition and the suspicious circumstances surrounding his death while leading the American-sponsored Polaris expedition in an attempt to be the first to reach the North Pole. The expedition was… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Hardcover. pp. xxviii, 595, ads. Royal 8vo. Bound in pebbled green cloth, with publisher's device blind-stamped to front board and gilt lettering to spine. All plates and maps present, including the folding map, at the rear of the book. Edgewear, slightly shaken, age-toned; good. Originally published in two volumes in London in 1864 as 'Life With The Esquimaux', this is a later printing of the American edition.

1865. New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1866. 8vo. Original brick-red buckram, gilt title and ornamentation to spine; pp. xxviii, [29]-595, [4, advertisements]; woodcut frontispiece, additional pictorial title, 18 full page woodcut illustrations, numerous woodcuts to text, 1 large folding map; occasional light spotting, otherwise very good, contemporary bookplate of Charles Chandler. Second printing of the first U.S. edition (two years after the British first, which is now virtually unobtainable). Hall led this expedition, financed by Henry Grinnell, to King William Island with a view to discovering further relics from the Franklin expedition following the discovery of its fate by M'Clintock. Hall travelled on the George Henry to Holsteinsborg, West Greenland and crossed Davis Strait to Cornelius Grinnell Bay and Cyrus Field Bay (both of which he named), where he teamed up with two local Eskimo, Ebierbing and Tookoolito. They together explored Frobisher Bay, where they… Read More