May 24, 2007 - Sale 2116

Sale 2116 - Lot 32

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COLLINSON, RICHARD. Journal of H.M.S. Enterprise on the Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin's Ships by Behring Strait, 1850-55. 6 maps, 2 plates (including the color frontispiece and a photogravure portrait). 8vo, publisher's cloth gilt, minor rubbing, one corner bumped; front hinge starting; scattered foxing and toning; bookplate of the HMS Excellent on the front pastedown. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1889
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first edition. Scarce posthumously published journals of Collinson's search for Franklin, in which he and his crew successfully endured three winters in the region. Initially paired with Robert McClure on the Investigator, the two ships became separated en route to Bering's Strait and never reunited. Arctic Bibliography 3351; TPL 3536.

From the library of Dr. John M. Levinson, with his bookplate.