* (ARCTIC) KANE, ELISHA KENT Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin 1853, '54, '55. Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1856. 2 vols. 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered spines. First edition. With extra-engraved titles, 22 steel-engraved plates, numerous in-text wood-engravings, and four maps, two fold-out. [Together with:] Biography of Elisha Kent Kane. By William Elder. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1858. 8vo, blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Wear and fading to boards. Estimate $ 100-200 Property from the Collection of Richardson and Janice Spofford and the Thomas Edward Wilson House, Chicago, Illinois Wear to boards; ends chipped; offsetting from plates to tissue guards; intermittent foxing affecting some plates.
* (ARCTIC) KANE, ELISHA KENT Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin 1853, '54, '55. Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1856. 2 vols. 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered spines. First edition. With extra-engraved titles, 22 steel-engraved plates, numerous in-text wood-engravings, and four maps, two fold-out. [Together with:] Biography of Elisha Kent Kane. By William Elder. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1858. 8vo, blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Wear and fading to boards. Estimate $ 100-200 Property from the Collection of Richardson and Janice Spofford and the Thomas Edward Wilson House, Chicago, Illinois Wear to boards; ends chipped; offsetting from plates to tissue guards; intermittent foxing affecting some plates.
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