ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS: The Second and Last United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin.With a Biographical Sketch of the Author by Prof. Charles W. Shields
Rare and modern books
Kane
American Publishing Company,
1881
ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS: The Second and Last United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin.With a Biographical Sketch of the Author by Prof. Charles W. Shields
Rare and modern books
Kane
American Publishing Company,
1881
385.00 €
(Newburyport,
United States of America)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1881
- Place of printing
- Hartford
- Author
- Kane
- Publishers
- American Publishing Company
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION THUS OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK. Doctor Kane had been
- First edition
- True
Description
Early issue in one volume. beautifully illustrated with many elegant steel engraved full-page plates, and more than two hundred and fifty wood engravings, from original designs. Thick 8vo, bound ln the publisher's original red-brown polished cloth, with gilt lettering to the spine panel and gilt pictorial device and lettering to the upper cover, both covers blocked and decorated in blind. 766 pp. A fine copy, clean and bright, with strong hinges., the issue guards are still intact, some light mellowing to the spine panel and a bit of shelving evidence. A very handsome and well preserved copy indeed.
