(Franklin, Sir John) — Sir John RichardsonArctic Searching Expedition: A Journal of a Boat-Voyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea, in Search of the Discovery Ships under Command of Sir John Franklin London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851
2 volumes, 8vo (223 x 140 mm). Ten tinted lithographed plates after A. H. Murray by M. & N. Hanhart (including 2 frontispieces, most finished by hand), large folding engraved map of British America, partially handcolored, 8 woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, 32-page publisher catalogue bound at end of first vol.; map a bit creased and with a few short tears. Publisher's blind-embossed, straightgrain-textured brown cloth, spines gilt-lettered; slightest rubbing to extremities. Brown cloth folding-case, velvet-lined.
First edition. An extraordinary survival, in virtual as-issued condition.
Richardson had accompanied Franklin on two previous expeditions in search of the northwest passage; when his friend disappeared, Richardson was compelled to mount a search. “Leaving his third wife … whom he had married on 4 August 1847, [Richardson] set out with John Rae. In three boats, with eighteen men, they reached the mouth of the Mackenzie River in August 1848 and scouted eastward toward the Coppermine River. They had a difficult retreat across the Barren Lands to Great Bear Lake, where they wintered. Admitting that the task was too taxing for him, Richardson left the younger men to carry on, and returned to England in 1849” (ODNB).
While searching for Franklin, Richardson made significant environmental and ethnographic observations as well. Most of the plates depict the Gwichʼin (Kutchin, as Richardson had it) people of the far northwest.
REFERENCES:Arctic Bibliography 14489; Field 1300; Graff 3493; Sabin 71025; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 9170; Streeter sale VI:3716; Wagner-Camp 203:1
(Franklin, Sir John) — Sir John RichardsonArctic Searching Expedition: A Journal of a Boat-Voyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea, in Search of the Discovery Ships under Command of Sir John Franklin London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851
2 volumes, 8vo (223 x 140 mm). Ten tinted lithographed plates after A. H. Murray by M. & N. Hanhart (including 2 frontispieces, most finished by hand), large folding engraved map of British America, partially handcolored, 8 woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, 32-page publisher catalogue bound at end of first vol.; map a bit creased and with a few short tears. Publisher's blind-embossed, straightgrain-textured brown cloth, spines gilt-lettered; slightest rubbing to extremities. Brown cloth folding-case, velvet-lined.
First edition. An extraordinary survival, in virtual as-issued condition.
Richardson had accompanied Franklin on two previous expeditions in search of the northwest passage; when his friend disappeared, Richardson was compelled to mount a search. “Leaving his third wife … whom he had married on 4 August 1847, [Richardson] set out with John Rae. In three boats, with eighteen men, they reached the mouth of the Mackenzie River in August 1848 and scouted eastward toward the Coppermine River. They had a difficult retreat across the Barren Lands to Great Bear Lake, where they wintered. Admitting that the task was too taxing for him, Richardson left the younger men to carry on, and returned to England in 1849” (ODNB).
While searching for Franklin, Richardson made significant environmental and ethnographic observations as well. Most of the plates depict the Gwichʼin (Kutchin, as Richardson had it) people of the far northwest.
REFERENCES:Arctic Bibliography 14489; Field 1300; Graff 3493; Sabin 71025; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 9170; Streeter sale VI:3716; Wagner-Camp 203:1
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