Under The Orders Of Captain Austin And Mr William Penny
ARCTIC BLUE BOOK IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Additional Papers Relative to the Arctic Expedition Under The Orders Of Captain Austin And Mr William Penny
Printed By Geroge Edward Eyre And William Spottiswoode, 1852.
First edition. Folio. In the original blue printed paper wrappers. Twenty-eight maps and charts, six of which are folding. An exceptionally well-preserved copy in the original wrappers. One gathering loose. Minor fraying to the paper at the spine ends, and the front hinge neatly strengthened, but nevertheless a remarkably fresh example of a rare report most often encountered rebound. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
An important Arctic Blue Book, presented to parliament on the 1850-1 Franklin Search expeditions led by Horatio Austin (on the Resolute) and William Penny (on the Lady Franklin and Sophia). They comprise full reports by sledgers from both expeditions, correspondence between leaders of other coordinated Franklin search missions, translations of reports of the Franklin expedition by natives as well as extensive observations on meteorology, geology, flora and fauna.
This Blue Book is rare, exceedingly so in its original state as here. The only other copy to appear at auction in the last forty years is the Brooke-Hitching copy which was sold in 1983 and 1989 before appearing in his own sale in 2014, and was in a modern binding.
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