May 24, 2007 - Sale 2116

Sale 2116 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 330
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Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
HALL, CHARLES F. Arctic Researches and Life Among the Esquimaux. Folding map, plates and illustrations. 8vo, publisher's cloth, backstrip faded, worn at extremities; short tear to the folding map. Publisher's ads in the rear. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865

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first american edition. Hall's 1860-62 expedition, sponsored by Henry Grinnell, intended to search for Franklin relics and possible survivors. Although woefully inexperienced, Hall did manage to navigate around Frobisher Bay and discover that it had no western outlet as had been previously thought. Sabin 29738; Arctic Bibliography 6485 (note); Books on Ice 4.4.

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