Author: Richardson, John.
Title: Arctic searching Expedition: A journal of a boat-voyage through Ruperts Land and the Arctic Sea in Search of the Discovery Ships under command of Sr John Franklin, with an appendix of the Physical Geography of North America.
Description: London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851. 2 vols. VIII,413, VII,426 pp. 8 b./w. text-ills & 10 (partly handcol.) tinted lithogr. plts (incl. 2 frontispieces). Uniform contemp. h.calf, marbled boards & edges, spines richtly gilt. 8vo. - Sl. rubbed along the extrimities; owener's name in ink in both vols; few blindstamps; two text pages (384/385) with dam. corner (only affect. the margins). - Overall a good set. This copy without the folding coloured map. - # Sabin 71025; Lande 1411; Field 1300; ; Peel 266;TPL 3029; Graff 3493.

Keywords: Ethnography North Pole Travel America Voyage-of-discovery Etnografie Noordpool Reizen Amerika Ontdekkingsreizen