Stray Leaves From an Arctic Journal

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover in a Custom Box. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Original plum cloth stamped in blind and gilt, all edges gilt. Rebacked with faded original spine laid down, New endpapers Text block over-opened in two placed places. Small bookplate upper corner… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1852. First edition. Folding map printed in blue and four color lithographed plates. vii,[1],[2],320,32pp. 8vo. Later half calf and cloth boards. Bookplate. Inked numerical stamp on page 49. First edition. Folding map printed in blue and four color lithographed plates. vii,[1],[2],320,32pp. 8vo. Franklin Search Classic. In 1850, Osborn was appointed commander of… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Blackwood. POOR (see notes) AS IS. 1865. 'new edition'. hardcover. 16mo . 334pp . 3/4 leather. 1 1/2" top spine gone, 2" split bottom spine/rear corner. Needs repair, but could be carefully read. .

London, 1852.. vii,[1],[2],320,32pp. plus folding map and four plates. 19th-century three-quarter calf and cloth, spine gilt, leather labels. Modern bookplate on front pastedown, light foxing, even toning to text. Very good. In 1850, Osborn was appointed commander of the Pioneer steam-tender in the Arctic expedition under Captain Austin aboard the Resolute, to search for Franklin. The expedition discovered traces… Read more about this item

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1852. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Very Good. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding with the leather rubbed there and at the joins. Inscription to the second blank. Text complete, clean and tight but the blanks are heavily spotted. A nice copy, and uncommon. . Hardback. Physically 8¾”… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Paperback / softback. New.

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

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London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1852. 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, IX, 320 pp. with large folding map outlined in color, and four full-page chromolithographs.First edition of this dramatic account of the 1850-51 search for the lost Franklin expedition, a powerful record by Captain Osborn of the Pioneer that brilliantly captures the expedition's perils, hopes and adventures, with each… Read more about this item

Paperback / softback. New. Naval officer Sherard Osborn (1822-75) commanded the steam vessel Pioneer during Horatio Thomas Austin's 1850-1 mission in search of the missing Franklin expedition. Osborn's compelling eyewitness account, published in 1852, describes the first (and successful) trial of steam in the punishing Arctic conditions.

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

Paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal.

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal.

Paperback. New.

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

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal.