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Arctic explorations : the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55

Title
Arctic explorations : the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55 / by Elisha Kent Kane, M.D., U.S.N. ; illustrated by upwards of three hundred engravings, from sketches by the author, the steel plates executed under the superintendence of J.M. Butler, the wood engravings by Van Ingen & Snyder.
Author
Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857
Publication
Philadelphia : Childs & Peterson, 124 Arch Street : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 20 N. Fourth St. ; Boston : Phillips, Sampson & Co., 13 Winter Street ; New York : G.P. Putnam & Co., 321 Broadway ; Cincinnati : Applegate & Co., 48 Main Street, 1856.

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Additional Authors
  • Dodge, W.S.
  • Butler, J. M. (John M.)
  • Sinclair Hamilton Collection of American Illustrated Books NjP
  • Van Ingen & Snyder, wood-engraver.
  • Applegate & Co., publisher.
  • Childs & Peterson, publisher.
  • J.B. Lippincott & Co., publisher.
  • Phillips, Sampson & Company, publisher.
Description
2 v. : ill., plates, 3 maps (2 fold.); 23 cm.
Summary
Narrative of organization and course of expedition to Smith Sound, wintering on north-west coast of Greenland, various surveys, abandonment of Advance and return to Upernavik in small boats.
Alternative Title
Arctic explorations in the years 1853, '54, '55
Subject
  • Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 > Travel > Arctic regions
  • Franklin, John, 1786-1847
  • Franklin, John, 1786-1847
  • Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857
  • Grinnell Expedition, 2nd, 1853-1855
  • Grinnell Expedition 1853-1855)
  • Grinnell Expedition
  • Explorers > Arctic regions > Biography
  • Cold Climate
  • Discoveries in geography
  • Northwest Passage
  • Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration
  • Arctic Ocean > Northwest Passage
  • Arctic Regions
  • Northwest Passage
Genre/Form
  • Autobiography
  • autobiographies (literary works)
  • Autobiographies
  • Autobiographies.
  • Travel writing.
  • Publishers' decorated cloth binding.
  • Bookplates (Provenance)
  • Récits de voyages.
Note
  • "Stereotyped by L. Johnson & Co., Philadelphia."--t.p. verso.
  • Added t.p., engraved; dated 1856.
  • "Chart exhibiting the discoveries of the second American Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin"--folded map, v. 1.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Indexed In (note)
  • Hamilton, S. American book illustrators (1968 ed.)
Provenance (note)
  • v. 2 inscribed : "W.S. Dodge, March 1857."--in pencil, on third fly-leaf verso.
Binding (note)
  • Quarter leather; decorated papers; marbled end papers.
Contents
Appendix: pages 299-442
LCCN
04019331
OCLC
  • ocm02166415
  • 2166415
  • SCSB-880763
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library