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RICHARDSON, JOHN, Sir. Arctic Searching Expedition: A Journey of a Boat-Voyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea. 2 vols. 185
RICHARDSON, JOHN, Sir. Arctic Searching Expedition: A Journey of a Boat-Voyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea, in Search of the Discovery Ships under Command of Sir John Franklin. 10 hand-colored lithographed plates; hand-colored engraved folding map (loose, partly separated at folds). 2 volumes. 8vo, later 19th-/early 20th-century black buckram gilt, small streak of white paint across Volume 1 spine. London, 1851
- Notes: first edition. Volume 1 title inscribed: "To Miss Briggs with Lady Richardson''s kind regards." Richardson and his party traveled down the Mackenzie River and explored eastward by boat along the Arctic shore as far as the mouth of the Coppermine River . . . Richardson''s descriptions are particularly valuable for their treatment of his personal experiences with Indians and Eskimos"--Hill 1452. Arctic Bibliography 14889.
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