Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records

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Sale 336: Americana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography (#336) 07/13/2006 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #77Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records

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Title:

Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records

Author:

Gilder, William H.

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Charles Scribner's Sons

Date Published:

1881

Description:

xvi, 316 + [3 ads] pp. 30 wood engraved plates, double page map printed in colors. 9x5½, original grey pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black. First Edition.

Account of Lieutenant (U.S. Army) Schwatka's 1878-80 expedition in search of the remains of the Franklin expedition, lost in 1850.

Condition:

Light rubbing to covers, especially spine ends; small stain to frontispiece and tissue; embossed stamp of L.H. McMahan of Salem, Oregon to frontispiece; occasional pencil notes, very good.;

Item#:

172906
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