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.....
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman. 1832. Three volumes, 8vo. 344 + 359 + 341pp. Contemporary green pebbled morocco gilt. Rebacked to match, owner's name on titles. Second edition.
New York: Edward H. Fletcher, 1862. 8vo. 4], xiv, [3], 18-220 pp, 11-page advertisements at end. Complete with engraved frontispiece portrait of Bertram, portrait of the author, and engraved title by J. Bannister. Original embossed brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Binding worn, pale browning and dampstaining. Provenance: James L. Ward.....
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1891. 8vo. xxvi + 300 pages. Plates and folding map. Near-contemporary citron half morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt. FIRST EDITION.
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.....
Hartford: Loomis & Richards for George Sheldon & Co, 1814. First American edition. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait of Prince Koutousoff, two large folding engraved maps (the first with irregular folding creases and 3-in. tear crossing image). (Some foxing.) Contemporary calf, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. First American edition, complete with frontispiece.....
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.
