THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE, AND THE PLANS FOR THE SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. A Review, with Maps, &c. Second edition, with a sequel, including the Voyage of the "Fox".

Expanded second edition. 8vo. Publisher's original blue pebble-grain cloth with gilt medal to the upper board and titles in gilt to the spine. Page edges untrimmed. Yellow endpapers. Four page "Opinions of the press" bound in at the rear. Illustrated with a lithographic frontispiece, three maps with partial hand-colouring (two folding) and a folding facsimile manuscript. A very good copy indeed, the binding square and firm with a little chipping to the head of the spine and minor rubbing to the extremities. The contents, with the engraved armorial bookplate of Clifton College Library (dated 1885) to the front pastedown, some light scattered foxing to the preliminary pages and very occasionally to page margins, are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. The maps with the odd spot of light foxing are otherwise in excellent condition and remain free from any tears or damage.

An extensive history of arctic exploration and the various attempts to discover the Northwest Passage, including an account of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition and the multiple attempts to find it, as well as plans for future search expeditions, by the writer, geographer, and Franklin search advocate, John Brown (1797-1861). First published in 1858, this expanded second edition is the first to include the important account of McClintock's explorations in the 'Fox' (1857-9), during which the first artefacts from the Franklin expedition were recovered. Notably, the work contains the first published facsimile of the famous "Victory Point Note", left by the remaining crew of the 'Erebus' and 'Terror', discovered by McClintock, which revealed the men's ultimate, grim fate. An attractive copy in the original publisher's cloth of this scarce Franklin search title. [Arctic Bibliography 2303; Hill 195; Sabin 8517].