RICHARDSON, Sir John (1787-1865). Arctic Searching Expedition: a Journal of a Boat-Voyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea, in Search of the Discovery Ships under Command of Sir John Franklin With an Appendix on the Physical Geography of North America . London: Spottiswoodes and Shaw for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851. 2 volumes, 8°. 2 hand-coloured lithographed frontispieces and 6 hand-coloured lithographed plates by M. & N. Hanhart after A.H. Murray and E.N. Kendall and 2 tinted lithographed plates by Ford and George, loosely-inserted hand-coloured folding map by S. Hall, woodcut illustrations and letterpress tables in the text, retaining final blank I/2D8 (light marginal browning, occasional light marking, map with short tears on margins and folds). Original brown grained cloth, boards with blind-ruled borders, spines lettered in gilt (corners bumped, rebacked, retaining original spines with small losses, endpapers renewed). FIRST EDITION. RICHARDSON'S ACCOUNT OF HIS 1848-1849 JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF FRANKLIN. An accomplished Arctic explorer who had served as naturalist and physician to both of Franklin's overland expeditions, Richardson's descriptions 'are particularly valuable for their treatment of his personal experiences with Indians and Eskimos; the appendix contains a comparative table of Eskimo dialects and vocabularies' (Hill). Although Richardson's expedition to discover the fate of his erstwhile commander (who had last been sighted at Baffin Bay on 26 July 1845) was unsuccessful in its immediate purpose, Richardson's deputy Dr John Rae later received the information from Inuit that there were corpses on King William Island, which Rae identified as being of the crews of Franklin's ships the Erebus and the Terror ; this, in turn, led to Leopold McClintock and William Hobson's discover in 1859 of Crozier's message which confirmed Franklin's death. This copy contains the map, which is not called for by the lists of plates, and Sabin notes is not always present. Arctic Bibliography 14489; Hill 1452; Lowndes p. 2088; Sabin 71025; Wagner/Camp 203. Together with FIRST EDITION of Beechey's A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole, Performed in His Majesty's Ships Dorothea and Trent ... 1818 (London, 1843). (3)
RICHARDSON, Sir John (1787-1865). Arctic Searching Expedition: a Journal of a Boat-Voyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea, in Search of the Discovery Ships under Command of Sir John Franklin With an Appendix on the Physical Geography of North America . London: Spottiswoodes and Shaw for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851. 2 volumes, 8°. 2 hand-coloured lithographed frontispieces and 6 hand-coloured lithographed plates by M. & N. Hanhart after A.H. Murray and E.N. Kendall and 2 tinted lithographed plates by Ford and George, loosely-inserted hand-coloured folding map by S. Hall, woodcut illustrations and letterpress tables in the text, retaining final blank I/2D8 (light marginal browning, occasional light marking, map with short tears on margins and folds). Original brown grained cloth, boards with blind-ruled borders, spines lettered in gilt (corners bumped, rebacked, retaining original spines with small losses, endpapers renewed). FIRST EDITION. RICHARDSON'S ACCOUNT OF HIS 1848-1849 JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF FRANKLIN. An accomplished Arctic explorer who had served as naturalist and physician to both of Franklin's overland expeditions, Richardson's descriptions 'are particularly valuable for their treatment of his personal experiences with Indians and Eskimos; the appendix contains a comparative table of Eskimo dialects and vocabularies' (Hill). Although Richardson's expedition to discover the fate of his erstwhile commander (who had last been sighted at Baffin Bay on 26 July 1845) was unsuccessful in its immediate purpose, Richardson's deputy Dr John Rae later received the information from Inuit that there were corpses on King William Island, which Rae identified as being of the crews of Franklin's ships the Erebus and the Terror ; this, in turn, led to Leopold McClintock and William Hobson's discover in 1859 of Crozier's message which confirmed Franklin's death. This copy contains the map, which is not called for by the lists of plates, and Sabin notes is not always present. Arctic Bibliography 14489; Hill 1452; Lowndes p. 2088; Sabin 71025; Wagner/Camp 203. Together with FIRST EDITION of Beechey's A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole, Performed in His Majesty's Ships Dorothea and Trent ... 1818 (London, 1843). (3)
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