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Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition-Vol 1+2, 1856 (Signed)

$750.00

Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition--Volumes 1 and 2 


Published by Childs & Peterson, 1856. First Edition. The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. First edition. 2 vols. 2 maps (1 folding), 1 folding table, 2 frontispiece portraits, 2 additional engraved vignette title pages, 18 engraved plates. 300 wood-engraved illustrations (with tissue guards) by the Kane.

he Arctic Exploration, or ‘Advance,’ led by Elisha Kent Kane, was financed to find Sir John Franklin and his ship which was missing. While Franklin was never found, Kent and his explorers were able to gather a lot of information about people, geography, and natural history of the Arctic region, a relatively unknown region of the world. The discoveries found on this voyage include the Humboldt Glacier, Kennedy Channel, the Kane Basin, and reaching the farthest north of any exploration at the time.

Published just one year before Kent’s death, this first edition book was immensely popular shortly after it was first published and was “often compared to the Bible for wide dissemination of America’s bedside reading tables” (Books on Ice 3.9).

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Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition--Volumes 1 and 2 


Published by Childs & Peterson, 1856. First Edition. The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. First edition. 2 vols. 2 maps (1 folding), 1 folding table, 2 frontispiece portraits, 2 additional engraved vignette title pages, 18 engraved plates. 300 wood-engraved illustrations (with tissue guards) by the Kane.

he Arctic Exploration, or ‘Advance,’ led by Elisha Kent Kane, was financed to find Sir John Franklin and his ship which was missing. While Franklin was never found, Kent and his explorers were able to gather a lot of information about people, geography, and natural history of the Arctic region, a relatively unknown region of the world. The discoveries found on this voyage include the Humboldt Glacier, Kennedy Channel, the Kane Basin, and reaching the farthest north of any exploration at the time.

Published just one year before Kent’s death, this first edition book was immensely popular shortly after it was first published and was “often compared to the Bible for wide dissemination of America’s bedside reading tables” (Books on Ice 3.9).

Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition--Volumes 1 and 2 


Published by Childs & Peterson, 1856. First Edition. The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. First edition. 2 vols. 2 maps (1 folding), 1 folding table, 2 frontispiece portraits, 2 additional engraved vignette title pages, 18 engraved plates. 300 wood-engraved illustrations (with tissue guards) by the Kane.

he Arctic Exploration, or ‘Advance,’ led by Elisha Kent Kane, was financed to find Sir John Franklin and his ship which was missing. While Franklin was never found, Kent and his explorers were able to gather a lot of information about people, geography, and natural history of the Arctic region, a relatively unknown region of the world. The discoveries found on this voyage include the Humboldt Glacier, Kennedy Channel, the Kane Basin, and reaching the farthest north of any exploration at the time.

Published just one year before Kent’s death, this first edition book was immensely popular shortly after it was first published and was “often compared to the Bible for wide dissemination of America’s bedside reading tables” (Books on Ice 3.9).