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Lot 2161: GOODSIR, ROBERT ANSTRUTHER.

Est: $2,000 USD - $3,000 USDSold:
BonhamsNew York, NY, USJune 25, 2013

Item Overview

Description

An Arctic Voyage to Baffin's Bay and Lancaster Sound, in Search of Friends with Sir John Franklin. London: John Van Voorst, 1850. 8vo (195 x 120 mm.) viii, 152 pp. Tinted frontispiece, folded map. Without the tipped in publishers ads. Original blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered. Half-title and last leaf with even browning; slight lean. FIRST EDITION. One of the scarcer titles relating to the Franklin rescue efforts. The volume consists of extracts from a journal kept in 1849. Sabin 27931.

Auction Details

Northwest America and the Arctic, including the Library of Dr. William Priester

by
Bonhams
June 25, 2013, 10:00 AM EST

580 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10022, US