Search Results: stray leaves from an arctic journal by osborn sherard 1822 1875

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: George P. Putnam, 1852. 12mo. pp. 1 p.l., [5]-216. several text illus. modern cloth

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852. 1st. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4 NICE CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC PLATES First UK edition. 4-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches. vii, (3), 320 pp, Full brown tan calf, gilt-ruled boards and edges, raised bands with gilt decorations in the panels, red morocco label, (small piece missing in label, slightly effecting type) marbled edges and endpapers. Over all very good copy. Internally age toned paper and some spotting on borders of plates.4 chromolithograph plates entitled "Cape Hotham", "Breaking through the ice", "Resolute winter quarters" and "Sledge travelling", all drawn by Lieutenant Osborn and lithographed by M & N Hanhart, and 7 engraved illustrations in text. Engraved folding map (190 x 600 mm) coloured with blue in outlines "shewing the track of H.M.S. Pioneer, in search of Sir John Franklin, 1851-1852" by Trelawney Saunders. TPL 3193 An account of Osborn's search for Franklin in Baffin Bay and Lancaster Sound, and wintering experiences at Griffith Island. Informative… Read More

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood And Sons, 1865. Second Enlarged Edition (first: 1852). Osborn commanded the Pioneer, one of the tenders to Resolute and Assistance of the Franklin search expedition under Captain Horatio T.Austin in 1850-51. His narrative relates the voyage by Baffin Bay, Lancaster Sound, and Barrow Strait, and the party’s wintering at Griffiths Island, and provides details on the West Greenland Esquimaux, ice and weather conditions, sledge journeys, &c. Osborn explored the west coast of Prince of Wales Island in the spring sledge journeys of 1851, and on the return voyage, sailed a considerable distance into Jones Sound. This edition was the first to include an account of the career, last voyage, and fate of Franklin (pp. 259-334). Arctic Bib. 12899. Sabin 57760. TPL 3194. cfGagnon I 2594. 8vo. pp. x, 334. folding lithographed map with partial colour. several text maps. original blind-stamped cloth (slight fraying to extremities, lacking front flyleaf)