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BERTHOLD CARL SEEMANN (1825-1871) Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald during the years 1845-51, under the command of Captain Henry Kellett. Being a Circumnavigation of the Globe, and three cruizes to the Arctic regions in search of Sir John Franklin London: John Edward Taylor for Reeve and Co., 1853. 2 volumes, 8° (212 x 132mm). Folding route map in colour, 2 tinted lithographic plates. Vol. I half-title. (Without vol. II half-title). 20th-century half calf gilt, spines blind-tooled in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2, gilt edges. FIRST EDITION AND SOLE ACCOUNT of this Admiralty voyage and search for Franklin. Seemann and Sir John Richardson were the naturalists on this primarily hydrographic survey of the Pacific. In fact, it became two distinct expeditions. Until 1848 they surveyed most of the west coast of the Americas, the Bering Strait and Kamchatka, the Galapagos Islands and Hawaii, and made additional land explorations in South America. In 1848 Kellett was ordered to join the search for Franklin. On his second passage through the Bering Strait he sailed in company with the Captain Moore in H.M.S. Plover , discovered Herald Island, made a remarkable sledge journey from Kotzebue Sound to St. Michael, Alaska, and a separate voyage through the Aleutians. Kellett published no account as he returned almost immediately to the Arctic in command of the Resolute on another Franklin search, and although Seemann only joined the expedition in 1847, he compiled this account from his own notes and those of his fellow officers. Hill 1546; Arctic Bibliography 15680. (2)