Voyage aux Mers Polaires a la Recherche de Sir John Franklin
Paris: Garnier Frères, 1880. Later edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [9], x-lix, [1], 1-492 pp. Red cloth over beveled-edge boards with gilt floral decorations, a gilt image of men pulling a comrade out of polar ice, black borders, gilt and black lettering and black decorations on the front board, gilt and black decorations and gilt lettering on the spine; all edges gilt. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Binding signed A Souzé on the front board. A new edition illustrated by M. Ad. Beaune. Illustrations include several in-text and full-page engravings, and a folding map of the Arctic regions in the rear of the volume. With an introduction by M. Paul Boiteau. Arctic Bibliography 1303. Howgego K6. Ramsden 194. A binder named Souze is mentioned in Ramsden but no detail is given. Bellot was a French naval man who participated in multiple expeditions to recover the Franklin expedition and to assist those who were searching for remains of Franklin and his party. Bellot ultimately drowned on a voyage to assist his fellow explorers in 1853, and his writings were published posthumously. The Bellot Strait is named after him. A very attractive volume on the history of polar exploration, beautifully bound. Very Good. Item #000013630
Mild sunning to the spine, scattered foxing to the textblock.
Price: $250.00