HALL, Charles Francis (1821-1871). Life with the Esquimaux. London: Sampson Low, Son, 1864. The first edition of Hall's first Arctic expedition. It was on this Franklin Search voyage that the Inuit revealed the surviving relics of Martin Frobisher's "gold mine" on Baffin Island. Arctic Bib. 6485; Sabin 29739; TPL 4146. Two volumes, octavo (222 x 140mm). Half-titles. Engraved frontispiece, large lithographed map ("A Chart of Frobisher Bay"), copious text illustrations (a little soiling, scattered small marginal wear and repairs at ends. Original green cloth (rebacked with spines laid down, new endpapers, rubbing). Provenance : J[ohn] Cresswell, a relative of Samuel Gurney Cresswell? (bookplates) – High Latitude, Bainbridge Island.
HALL, Charles Francis (1821-1871). Life with the Esquimaux. London: Sampson Low, Son, 1864. The first edition of Hall's first Arctic expedition. It was on this Franklin Search voyage that the Inuit revealed the surviving relics of Martin Frobisher's "gold mine" on Baffin Island. Arctic Bib. 6485; Sabin 29739; TPL 4146. Two volumes, octavo (222 x 140mm). Half-titles. Engraved frontispiece, large lithographed map ("A Chart of Frobisher Bay"), copious text illustrations (a little soiling, scattered small marginal wear and repairs at ends. Original green cloth (rebacked with spines laid down, new endpapers, rubbing). Provenance : J[ohn] Cresswell, a relative of Samuel Gurney Cresswell? (bookplates) – High Latitude, Bainbridge Island.
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