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Facsimile Of The Illustrated Arctic News, Published On Board H.M.S. Resolute Capt'n Horatio T. Austin. C.B. In Search Of The Expedition Under Sir John Franklin; Dedicated By Special Permission The Lords Commissioners Of The Admiralty, By Their Lordships Very Obedient Servants, Lieut: Sherard Osborne, & Mr. Geo: F. McDougall by Osborn, Sherard & George F. McDougall (Editors) - 1852

by Osborn, Sherard & George F. McDougall (Editors)

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Facsimile Of The Illustrated Arctic News, Published On Board H.M.S. Resolute Capt'n Horatio T. Austin. C.B. In Search Of The Expedition Under Sir John Franklin; Dedicated By Special Permission The Lords Commissioners Of The Admiralty, By Their Lordships Very Obedient Servants, Lieut: Sherard Osborne, & Mr. Geo: F. McDougall by Osborn, Sherard & George F. McDougall (Editors) - 1852

Facsimile Of The Illustrated Arctic News, Published On Board H.M.S. Resolute Capt'n Horatio T. Austin. C.B. In Search Of The Expedition Under Sir John Franklin; Dedicated By Special Permission The Lords Commissioners Of The Admiralty, By Their Lordships Very Obedient Servants, Lieut: Sherard Osborne, & Mr. Geo: F. McDougall

by Osborn, Sherard & George F. McDougall (Editors)

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London: Ackermann & Co, 1852. Hardcover. Orig. blind blocked blue imitation morocco cloth, front cover lettered and decorated in gilt. Very good. 57 pages. Folio, 48 x 30 cm. Fifty seven lithographed pages with lithographed text in two columns, "With on full page chromolithograph `Grand Bal Masque'/H.M.S./Resolute/ Dec. 5,1850. Extra red applied by hand." [ABBEY TRAVEL 639]. There are one or more vignettes on every page, seven are hand colored. The first published edition of a manuscript newspaper issued on board a Franklin search vessel which found evidence of the expedition at a winter camp and graves on Beechy's Island. The 'newspaper' was produced (in acknowledged imitation of the Illustrated London News) by Osborn and McDougal with contributions from various other generally pseudonymous sources. The text gives a first hand insight into the life of the expedition: the daily routine, eye-witness accounts of the finding of the first evidence of Franklin's Erebus and Terror expedition, the various theatrical entertainments devised to ward off the tedium of the Arctic winter. SABIN 23609. "A curious and amusing production, lithographed with plates." Contents clean and fresh, chipping to text fore-edges.
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  • Publisher Ackermann & Co
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1852
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Facsimile Of The Illustrated Arctic News, Published On Board H.M.S. Resolute: Capt. Horatio T.Austin, C.B. In Search Of The Expedition Under Sir John Franklin.

by OSBORN, Sherard [1822-1875] & Geo[rge] F[rederick] McDOUGALL [c1825-1871] (Editors)

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London: Ackermann & Co., 15th March, 1852. First Edition. A lithographed facsimile of the original manuscript monthly newspaper issued on board the H.M.S. Resolute during a forced wintering in Barrow Strait between Griffith and Cornwallis Island by the Franklin search expedition commanded by Horatio Thomas Austin. The expedition was distinguished for having discovered the site of Franklin’s first winter quarters on Beechey Island. There were five issues in all of the ‘Illustrated Arctic News’, dated October, 1850, to March, 1851 (February omitted). In addition to the numerous small vignettes and attractive views in the text, some of which are in colour, there is one full-page chromolithograph, ‘Grand Bal Masqué, H.M.S. Resolute Dec. 5, 1850, and a number of play-bills in drawn lettering in the style of the time. Most of the illustrations were supplied by joint editor, George Frederick McDougall, second master on the Resolute, who made other contributions in the form of poems and short… Read More
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Facsimile of the Illustrated Arctic News, Published on Board H. M. S. Resolute, Capt. Horatio T. Austin, C. B., In Search of the Expedition Under Sir John Franklin

by Osborn, Sherard & Geo. F. McDougall, eds

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London: Ackermann and Co., 1852. (4),57 pp. Folio. (31 X 48 cm.) Original deep blue cloth, lettered in gilt on front cover and with gilt illustration of ships among icebergs. Spine and corners have had some professional restoration. Boards have a bit of light soiling. Original coated yellow endpapers. Front endpaper with a bit of dark staining from some old glue residue. Corners a bit bumped. Title vignette in color, numerous lithographic illustrations in text, some colored. Two full page coloured illustrations. A very minor amount of browning on the text block edges otherwise a very nice, clean copy. Arctic Biblio. 22800: "Printed and published after the expedition returned home, from the five numbers originally published in manuscript, October, 1950 - March 1951, on shipboard during the wintering of the "Resolute" in Barrow Strait". Very scarce in any condition, but rare in this condition. With the signature of Robert Anstruther Goodsir, dated April 1852, on the… Read More
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