THIRTY YEARS IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS: A Narrative of the Explorations and Adventures of Sir John Franklin.
Cincinnati, OH: United States Book and Bible Company, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). Very good+ condition. Item #020406
480 pages of text. Original decorative cloth binding with minor rubbing to the extremities; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Illustrated with an engraved frontisportrait Elisha Kent Kane; original protective illustration tissue-guard intact. Page 20-21 with a small strip of discoloration (browned) from bookmark offsetting. Rear endpaper with a small crease and tear without loss. No date of publication listed; copyright dated 1859. This text appears to have been simultaneously issued under the same title but with the sub-title instead: Or, the Adventures of Sir John Franklin.
Price: $475.00