Search Results: stray leaves from an arctic journal by osborn sherard 1822 1875

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

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 of front paste-down. Housed in a custom Clam-shell box. First Edition, First Printing. 12mo; 183 x 113mm, 7.5 inches tall. 320 pages. 4 color lithographed plates including frontispiece; Folding partly hand colored map, with the appendix. These were left out of the U.S. Edition along with the appendix. Includes Custom Clamshell box.. The expedition proved that Franklin's ships had not been lost in Baffin's Bay. Much of the success of the voyage was due to the steam tenders, which, opened new prospects for Arctic navigation. Osborn was a commander on Horatio Austin's Franklin Search Expedition in command of the Pioneer. He includes an account of the… Read More