Arctic Explorations by Kane, Elisha Kent M.D. U.S.N - 1856

UsedVeryGood. This copy has some minor shelf wear. The pages are clean, free of underlining, highlighting or notes. The binding is tight.\r\n

The Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co, 1996. hardcover. Very Good. 6x4x1.

T Nelson and Sons. A complete ex lib (Falmouth) copy of the first in the original burgundy cloth with front board detached and requiring re-binding. Library marks to beginning and throughout. but an attractive copy. . Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1868.

The Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co, 1996-01-01. Hardcover. Like New. 6x4x1. APPEARS UNREAD. Hardcover. ORIGINAL 1996 brown clothbound Lakeside Press printing with gilt titles and decoration. Pages are clean and unmarked with gilt top-edge. Minimal shelf wear, otherwise AN UNBLEMISHED COPY.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Chicago: The Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1996. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Edited by Chauncey Loomis and Constance Martin. December 1996. Annual Christmas edition published by R.R. Donnelley and Sons as a gift for employees. Bound in original chocolate brown cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. 22 black-and-white plates and 6 color plates and two fold-out maps. lix+ 447 p. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Top edge gilt. Includes Index. 4 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches. See pictures.

Chicago, Ill.: The Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company 1996. (hardcover) lix, 447pp. As new, no dust jacket. 16mo. As new. Brown cloth with gilt to front and spine. Frontispiece and B / W ills. Throughout. Chauncy Loomis and Contance Martin, editors..

Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1857. Good copy. In marbled paper covered boards with leather corners and spine. Spine has 5 bands with gilt filigree design and gilt lettering and numbering. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Full foldout map. Frontispiece with tissue guard as well as woodcuts with tissue guards. Square and intact binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages. Ffep is mostly detached but still holding on. Moderate scuffing to leather. Photos upon request. . Half-Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1881. Early issue in one volume. beautifully illustrated with many elegant steel engraved full-page plates, and more than two hundred and fifty wood engravings, from original designs. Thick 8vo, bound ln the publisher's original red-brown polished cloth, with gilt lettering to the spine panel and gilt pictorial device and lettering to the upper cover, both covers blocked and decorated in blind. 766 pp. A fine copy, clean and bright, with strong hinges., the issue guards are still intact, some light mellowing to the spine panel and a bit of shelving evidence. A very handsome and well preserved copy indeed. FIRST EDITION THUS OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK. Doctor Kane had been the ship's surgeon on the First Ginnell Expedition of 1850 and upon that mission's unsuccessful return he immediately set out in command of the Second. That mission was also a failure in that no trace of the lost Franklin Party was ever found, but these missions did achieve many… Read More