RAE JOHN Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arc

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RAE, JOHN. Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847. 2 hand-colored folding maps. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 calf, rubbed at extremities; short tear to the frontispiece map; armorial bookplate on the front pastedown (Hugh Cecil, Earl of Lonsdale). London: T. & W. Boone, 1850

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first edition of a rare arctic narrative. Rae's 1846-47 Expedition, commissioned by the Hudson's Bay Company, thoroughly and successfully explored the Melville Peninsula and the coast to Boothia Peninsula. His later 1853-54 search for Franklin and his discovery of the expedition's fate, however, brought him undeserved notoriety and hostility. Perhaps this accounts, in part, for the rarity of this earlier publication. Arctic Bibliography 14097; Sabin 67428; TPL 2868; Books on Ice 2.12; Streeter Sale 3715.
with--John Rae's Correspondence with the Hudson's Bay Company. Edited by E. E. Rich. London, 1953 Richards, Robert. Dr. John Rae. North Yorkshire, 1985.

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