May 24, 2007 - Sale 2116

Sale 2116 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 13,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
GOODSIR, ROBERT A. An Arctic Voyage to Baffin's Bay and Lancaster Sound, in Search of Friends with Sir John Franklin. Frontispiece plate, folding map. 8vo, publisher's cloth; half-title and terminal page toned as usual; bookplate on the front pastedown (Larchmont Yacht Club). a fine unopened copy. London: John van Voorst, 1850
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first edition of a franklin search rarity. The author, whose brother was a surgeon aboard the Erebus, joined William Penny aboard the whaler Advice in 1849 in the hopes of finding the missing Franklin expedition in Lancaster Sound. The last survivors of the 1845-48 expedition, however, had perished in the spring of 1848 on Adelaide Peninsula. Goodsir's Arctic Voyage is one of the first published accounts of a search for franklin. Arctic Bibliography 5919; Sabin 27931; TPL 2986.
with--A facsimile reprint of the above. Limited and numbered edition. Plaistow and Sutton Coldfield: Arctic Press, 1996.

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