Publisher:
Paris. A. and W. Galignani and Co., 1854
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
16851155458
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8vo, 23cm, the First Paris Edition, 124p., folding map, printed in double-columns, complete with half titles, in contemporary quarter dark blue green calf, blind ruled raised bands, gilt spine titles, dark blue cloth boards, marbled endpapers, spine rubbed otherwise very good to fine, rare. (cgc) This issue not in T.P.L., Lande, not Arctic Bib. 1-3, WorldCat, nor Aurora. (Formerly Amicus). On 7 January 1850, Parker Snow was working as a writer in New York when he claimed to have had a paranormal vision of the whereabouts of the missing Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin. He immediately wrote to Lady Jane Franklin with a plan for a search. Consequently, she made him the civil officer of her expedition on board the ketch Prince Albert that explored the Boothia Peninsula for any sign of the missing expedition between June and September 1850, without success. On his return Parker Snow wrote Voyage of the Prince Albert in Search of Sir John Franklin that Lady Franklin used to promote further expeditions. The expedition was under Captain Charles C. Forsyth. This rare edition includes extra letters and dispatches concerning the Franklin search.
