(ARCTIC) Franklin John Narrative of a Journey to the Shores

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(ARCTIC.) Franklin, John. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea and Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea. 4 and 6 folding maps (2 hand-colored), 31 and 31 plates (12 of them hand-colored). xv, 783 [1]; xxiv, 320, clvii, [2] pages. 2 volumes. 4to, library cloth, moderate wear; intermittent foxing, two of the maps worn but complete; inked stamps of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary on front pastedowns and title pages. London, 1823 and 1828

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first editions of Franklin's first two Canadian Arctic expeditions from 1819-22 and 1825-27, including supplementary reports by other survivors. In the first expedition, Franklin's party was reduced to eating the leather in their shoes and lost 11 of 20 men, mostly to starvation, but they also charted vast expanses which had been previously unknown to Europeans. Franklin and his entire 129-man crew died on his third Arctic expedition, 1845-1848. Abbey Travel 635.