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(ARCTIC.) Osborn, Sherard and George F. Mc Dougall, eds. Facsimile of the Illustrated Arctic News, Published on Board H.M.S. Resolute. [4], 57 lithographed pages, some hand-colored, with lithographed text in two columns. Folio, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, moderate wear, rebacked and recornered; minor repairs to title page; Edinger bookplate. London, 1852
The first published edition of a manuscript newspaper composed aboard one of the Franklin search vessels during the winter of 1850-51. Apparently the adventurers kept themselves occupied with theatricals while frozen in. They also found the first evidence of Franklin's lost expedition, a winter camp and three graves on Beechey's Island. Abbey Travel 639; Sabin 23608.
