The U. S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. A Personal Narrative. by Elisha Kent Kane - 1854

New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1854.. publisher's cloth.. Old pencil ownership signatures; spine sunned; extremities of spine and corners frayed; tight and sound.. 8vo,. Folding map (repaired with document-repair tape at one edge and fold)..

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. A good copy, the spine faded and partly split along joint, some intermittent spotting and browning, library label on spine and card at rear. 8vo. 552 pages. Mezzotint frontispiece by John Sartain, map of "Baffin's Bay", 12 engraved and lithographed plates, numerous wood engraved vignettes. Lacks the folding map. Original cloth, stamp-embossed, gilt voyage motif within stamped lozenge. FIRST EDITION, second issue with 1854 title-page.

Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1857. Hardcover. Brown blindstamped cloth/gilt. "New edition." Single volume complete. Stains to rear cover else tight and square, corners lightly bumped, minor foxing. Frontis, plates, fold out map. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 552+ pages .

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1854.. 8vo. 552 pp. 14 plates + 3 maps. Original cloth. Front free endpaper removed. Wear to edge and some creasing to fold-out map. Boards rubbed with wear to corners, spine tips and spine edges, else a good sound copy..

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.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. First edition, Second Issue, with "1854" date on title page. Mezzotint frontispiece by John Sartain, folding engraved map of "Arctic Regions" by Schott, map of "Baffin's Bay", 12 engraved and lithographed plates, numerous wood engraved vignettes.xi, [1], [13]-552 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half brown calf and marlbed boards and edges. Covers a little rubbed, folding map slightly foxed, otherwise a very good, sound, clean copy. Sartain. First edition, Second Issue, with "1854" date on title page. Mezzotint frontispiece by John Sartain, folding engraved map of "Arctic Regions" by Schott, map of "Baffin's Bay", 12 engraved and lithographed plates, numerous wood engraved vignettes.xi, [1], [13]-552 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Two ships, the Rescue and the Advance, under the command of Lt. DeHaven, went to the Lancaster Sound - Wellington Channel region in search of Sir John Franklin in 1850-51. Kane was the surgeon on the expedition in search of Franklin, and the book is based… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers , 1854. 8vo, original cloth, gilt vignette on front cover, spine lettered in gilt, illustrated with 8 lithographed plates and 5 mezzotint plates, wood engravings in text, three charts (one of them folding), 552 pp. Wear to spine ends and corners, light foxing to plates, signature on endpapers, folding plate creased in margin; otherwise very good or better. This work takes reviews the first Grinnell Expedition to find out what happened to Sir John Franklin who set out on his own Polar expedition in 1847. This American expedition was headed by Lt. Edwin DeHaven, and Dr. Elisha Hunt Kane (1820-1857) would serve as cheif medical officer. Kane would actually lead the second Grinnell Expedition, and authored the present work . Unfortunately, Franklin was already dead by the time these expeditions went looking for him, but in both cases these expeditions faced many signficant challenges of their own.

New York: Harper & Brothers , 1854. 8vo, original cloth, gilt vignette on front cover, spine lettered in gilt, illustrated with 8 lithographed plates and 5 mezzotint plates, wood engravings in text, three charts (one of them folding), 552 pp. Spine faded, covers with marginal sunning, some wear at ends and corners, folding chart with some folds and tears in the margin; light foxing to some plates; otherwise very good. A nice copy.. This work takes reviews the first Grinnell Expedition to find out what happened to Sir John Franklin who set out on his own Polar expedition in 1847. This American expedition was headed by Lt. Edwin DeHaven, and Dr. Elisha Hunt Kane (1820-1857) would serve as cheif medical officer. Kane would actually lead the second Grinnell Expedition, and authored the present work . Unfortunately, Franklin was already dead by the time these expeditions went looking for him, but in both cases these expeditions faced many signficant challenges of their own.