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Rare and modern books

Kane

ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS: The Second and Last United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin.With a Biographical Sketch of the Author by Prof. Charles W. Shields

American Publishing Company, 1881

385.00 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, United States of America)

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Year of publication
1881
Place of printing
Hartford
Author
Kane
Publishers
American Publishing Company
Edition
FIRST EDITION THUS OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK. Doctor Kane had been
First edition
Yes

Description

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.