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Arctic Searching Expedition

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Lot 11 | Arctic Searching Expedition
Arctic Searching Expedition
John Richardson, 1851
RICHARDSON, John (1787-1865). Arctic Searching Expedition: A Journal of a Boat Voyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea, in Search of the Discovery of Ships under Command of Sir John Franklin. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851.

The exceptionally fine Franklin Brooke-Hitching copy of this first edition Franklin Search account, undertaken by one of Franklin's old shipmates. Richardson, who had accompanied Franklin on two previous expeditions, thought it his sacred duty to search for his old friend and joined this voyage in 1847. Eighteen men set out in three boats and reached the mouth of the Mackenzie River in August 1848. They explored eastward toward the Coppermine River and had a difficult retreat across the Barren Lands to Great Bear Lake, where they wintered. Richardson, realizing that the mission was too taxing on him, left the younger men to carry on, and returned to England in 1849. Richardson did not limit himself to searching for Franklin, but made observations about the plants and animals of the region, as well. An extensive appendix provides a detailed listing of Canadian and Arctic plants. Arctic Bib. 14489; Graff 3493; Sabin 71025; Streeter sale 3716; TPL 3029; Wagner-Camp 203:1.

Two volumes, octavo (218 x 138mm). Color lithographed frontispieces in each volume, 8 color lithographed plates, partially hand-colored folding map. Original blue blindstamped cloth, spines gilt-lettered (touch of wear just at tips); modern quarter morocco clamshell boxes. Provenance: Isaac Norris (bookplates; early and neat manuscript quotation from Charles Dickens on the Franklin Search on f.f.e. of vol.1) – Franklin Brooke-Hitching (his sale, Sotheby's, 30 September 2015, lot 1066).Richardson, John
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