The Voyage of the Jeannette. The Ship and Ice Journals
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888. 8vo. 911 pages. Folding map in pocket at rear, plates. Original decorated cloth. Early single-volume reprint after the first edition of 1883.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888. 8vo. 911 pages. Folding map in pocket at rear, plates. Original decorated cloth. Early single-volume reprint after the first edition of 1883.
Philadelpiha: Childs and Peterson, 1858. 8vo. 416 pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait and engraved illustrated title page and 4 full page illustrations; 2 pages of publisher's advertisements in front, 2 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. Original embossed cloth. FIRST EDITION. A complete biography of the prolific Arctic explorer and writer.....
Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1857-56. 2 volumes. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Profusely illustrated (300 engravings including 22 plates); 2 folding maps. Original cloth (varying colors), gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Augustus Seward (signature on title), presumably the career Army officer (1826-1876), son of William H. Seward and Adeline Seward.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. 8vo. 552 pages. Mezzotint frontispiece by John Sartain, map of "Baffin's Bay", 12 engraved and lithographed plates, numerous wood engraved vignettes. Lacks the folding map. Original cloth, stamp-embossed, gilt voyage motif within stamped lozenge. FIRST EDITION, second issue with 1854 title-page.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. 2 volumes, 8vo. Four folding chromolithographed maps in pockets in volume one. Engraved frontispiece by Johan Nordhagen, 16 color plates, tissue guards. Original decorated cloth, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION (the first edition in Norwegian was published the previous year). Arctic.....
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1857. 8vo. 480 pages. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; folding map; several plates and text illustrations. Original blind stamped cloth. FIRST EDITION. Chronicles the search of Sir John Franklin in the arcitc, with the contextualization of several other Arctic expeditions during the same time period.....