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KANE, ELISHA KENT. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. Engraved additional titles, 2 maps, 20 plates. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf, nicely rebacked with the original backstrip; early owner's signature and inscriptions on the front free endpapers. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1857
This is the second edition of Kane's account of the Second Grinnell Expedition, the first edition issued the year prior. The 1853-55 expedition in search of Franklin also intended on proving the theory of an open polar sea. While neither goal was accomplished and Kane's ship the Advance was abandoned in the ice, the expedition would discover and map the waterways between Greenland and Ellesmere Island (Kane Basin and Kennedy Channel). Sabin 37001. with--Elder, William. Biography of Elisha Kent Kane. Philadelphia, 1858 The Love-Life of Dr. Kane. New York, 1866.
From the library of Dr. John M. Levinson, with his bookplate.
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