Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(ARCTIC.) Group of 10 items relating to Elisha Kent Kane and his family. 11 volumes. Various sizes, bindings, and conditions; Ray Edinger bookplates. Vp, 1854-1954

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Elder, William. Biography of Elisha Kent Kane. Philadelphia, 1858 Fox. The Love-Life of Dr. Kane, Containing . . . a History of the Acquaintance, Engagement, and Secret Marriage between Elisha K. Kane and Margaret Fox. New York, 1866 Kane. The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin: A Personal Narrative. New York, 1854 Kane. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. 2 volumes; early issue without "Kane Sea" printed on map. Philadelphia, 1856 Kane. Kane, der Nordpolfahrer: Arktische Fahrten und Entdeckungen der Zweiten Grinnell-Expedition. Lacks frontispiece. Leipzig, 1879 Kane, Elizabeth Dennistoun (sister-in-law of Elisha Kent Kane). Story of John Kane of Dutchess County, New York. Signed by author's granddaughter Sybil Kane on front free endpaper; genealogical "Supplement by Dr. Thomas L. Kane" laid in. Philadelphia, 1921 Kane, Sybil; editor. Autobiography of The Honorable John K. Kane. Philadelphia, 1949 Mirsky. Elisha Kent Kane and the Seafaring Frontier. Boston, 1954 Schmucker. The Life of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, and other Distinguished American Explorers. Philadelphia, 1858 Beckel. "Requiem. He Sleeps, But Not 'Mid the Arctic Snow." Sheet music, dedicated to the memory of Elisha Kent Kane. Philadelphia, 1857.