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London: J. M. Dent & Sons, n.d. (?1924). 1st thus. hardback. Very good, no d/j Everyman edition, green cloth boards (good but small stains), gilt spine titling bright; patterned pastedowns; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). The Everyman Library edition of Franklin's classic account of the voyage to explore the Polar Seas (he would die in 1845 on the fated journey to find the North West passage). Introduction by Scott of the Antarctic

With 11 colour plates and 19b/w plates. 4 fldg maps in pcket at rear

Edmonton: M. G. Hurtig Ltd.. VG+. 1969. Hardcover. Hardback in Very Good+ condition with Very Good+ dust jacket. . 4to 11" - 13" tall. 768 pages. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided * .

Canada: Hurtig Ltd., 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Facsimile Reprint. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xx, [2], 768 pages. "This work is significant not only as a record of accomplishment in exploration, but in providing insight into Franklin's abilities as a leader which were to be of even greater significance in his final expedition years later." - from dust jacket. Includes appendix on various subjects relating to science and natural history. 11 colour plates. 19 black and white plates. Three maps stored in pocket inside back board. Prior owner's handwritten name and date upon front free endpaper else unmarked. Book very handsome in bright red cloth with brilliant gilt spine lettering and decoration. Very light wear to boards. Small spots of discolouration to periphery of endpapers caused by yellowed adhesive tape prior owner applied to protect dust jacket edges. Dust jacket, now in archival-grade Brodart, bears moderate wear, yellowed adhesive tape along… Read More

Vol. I has a large partial coloured map as frontis and Vol. II has 3 large folding maps in the rear The record of Franklin's first Arctic expedition, fraught with hardship and tragedy, constitutes one of the classics in the annals of travel literature. In all, the party travelled 5,500 miles overland and with the aid of canoes, exploring the territory from York Factory to the mouth of the Coppermine River on Coronation Gulf, east along the Arctic coast as far as Point Turnagain, and back across the Barren Lands. Provisions were poor and scant, and on the return journey, many crew members died of cold and starvation; the young naval artist Robert Hood was murdered and another executed for the crime. The work also includes accounts by Richardson and Back of the last leg of the desperate journey across the Barren Lands. This edition omits the appendix on the natural history of the region and scientific observations on the aurora borealis and the magnetic needle. Arctic Bib. 5195. Sabin 25625. TPL… Read More

London: John Murray, 1823. First Edition. Thick Quarto. First issue with the errata slip mounted to page 768. xvi, 768, Illustrated with 31 plates of which 11 are in color (9 in aquatint) and with four plates of plants (1 in color) preceding four large folding maps all dated March 1823, with an appendix which Sabin calls "valuable" in its contribution to the knowledge of the natural history of the area. Light off-setting or scattered foxing from plates facing text, small damp stain to upper margin of title page. Bound in full contemporary calf, board edges ruled in gilt and blind, rebacked to style retaining original endpapers and beautifully executed, raised bands gilt, black morocco spine label gilt, all edges marbled with matching endpapers. Minor wear to corners. this book narrates the disastrous expedition undertaken by Naval officer and Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin in the Coppermine River in North America. Franklin (1786-1847) and nineteen others set out in 1819, initially with guides from… Read More

John Murray, 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Brown leather boards with gold design at board edges. Title in gold over black leather label on gold decorated spine. Boards are noticeably scuffed and worn. Frayed edges, some sunning. Marbleized edges match marbleized endpapers. Occasional foxing throughout. 4 maps, 30 plates of which 11 are hand colored. All are in nice condition, some light foxing/soil. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

London: John Murray, 1823. xvi,768 pp. Quarto. Bound in half 19th century half straight grain dark blue morocco and blue cloth. Spine ruled in six compartments. Horizontal fillets. Gilt center tool of a sailing ship. Top edge trimmed and other edges untrimmed. Outer joints a bit worn. Marbled endpapers. Half title. Thirty plates (including twelve hand-coloured) and four folding maps (at end). A few plates with a small marginal tide line. Most of the original plate tissues present. Errata at the end of the text. 8 pages of Murray's ads dated 1823 at the end. Generally, a very nice clean attractive superior copy. AB 5194; Hill p.111 (first Issue), Peel 80, Lande 1181, TPL 1248. Classic overland travel narrative with an important appendix on natural history. The journey was made to the mouth of the Coppermine River and then on to Point Turnagain. The party travelling overland some 5,500 miles with the aid of canoes, during which many of the party died from cold, hunger, or… Read More

London:: John Murray, Albemarle-Street,, c. 1823. . A handsome copy in very good condition, with text and plates mostly clean and crisp; very slight occasional faint browning of only few pages.. Edition: First edition, first issue. , Binding: Contemporary red half-morocco with marbled boards. Spine with five raised blind bands, gilt ornamented compartments and gilt title on two; pasted and free endpapers in matching marble. Front and lower edges uncut., Notes: Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer of the Arctic. Franklin also served as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) from 1837 to 1843. He disappeared on his last expedition, attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The icebound ships were abandoned and the entire crew perished from starvation, hypothermia, tuberculosis, lead poisoning and scurvy. The work includes the extensive Appendix on science and… Read More

London: John Murray, 1823.. xvi,768pp. including one in-text diagram, plus thirty-one plates (eleven in color) and four folding maps. Half title. Quarto. Contemporary calf, ruled and tooled in gilt, expertly rebacked to style in matching gilt calf, gilt leather label. Minor shelf wear, bookplate on front pastedown (see below). Light scattered foxing, some offsetting from plates. A very good, attractive copy. First edition, first issue of the narrative of Franklin's first expedition of 1819-22. Two issues were published of this first edition, both in 1823; the first collates 768 pages and has the folding maps dated March 1823, as in this copy. The bookplate on the front pastedown is that of Henry Thomas Liddell, 1st Earl Ravensworth. Liddell was a Tory politician who argued in favor of Catholic Emancipation in the late 19th century. Franklin, along with naturalist Dr. John Richardson, was appointed to lead an expedition overland from Hudson Bay to east of the mouth of the Copper-Mine River for the… Read More

London: John Murray. , c. 1823, 1828.. A handsome copy in very good condition, text and plates are clean and crisp, very slight occasional faint browning of only few pages.. Edition: First editions, first issues, Binding: Contemporary marbled boards rebacked expertly, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt ornamented compartments and gilt title on two. Front and lower edges uncut., Notes: In 1819, Franklin was chosen to lead an expedition overland from Hudson Bay to chart the north coast of Canada eastwards from the mouth of the Coppermine River.[10] On his 1819 expedition, Franklin fell into the Hayes River at Robinson Falls and was rescued by a member of his expedition about 90 metres (98 yd) downstream. Between 1819 and 1822, he lost 11 of the 20 men in his party. Most died of starvation, but there were also at least one murder and suggestions of cannibalism. The survivors were forced to eat lichen and even attempted to eat their own leather boots. This gained Franklin the nickname of "the man who ate… Read More