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America's First Important Arctic Explorer
Elisha Kent Kane. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856.First edition. Two octavo volumes. 464; 467, [1, blank] pages. With inserted frontispiece portraits and engraved title-pages, eighteen full-page plates, one small map, and one folding map. Lacking a folding map.
[Together With:] William Elder. Biography of Elisha Kent Kane. Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1858.
First edition. Octavo. 416 pages. With inserted portrait frontispiece and engraved title and four full-page plates.
Uniformly bound in publisher's full chocolate brown cloth, covers elaborately stamped in blind with patriotic motifs, spines lettered in gilt. Spines worn at edges, with black ink on tailcaps, some wear to covers, some foxing to plates. Bookplates. All volumes shaken. Fair.
"No trace of Franklin's party was found by the expedition, but the coasts of Kane Basin were charted and Kennedy Channel was discovered ...Meteorological, magnetic, astronomical, and tidal observations, botanical, glacial, and geological surveys, studies of animal and Eskimo life, established sound foundations for the scientific study of the Arctic ...In August 1854 Hayes [the surgeon] and eight men, protesting the commander's resolve to remain a second winter, announced their determination to hazard the journey to the South Greenland settlements. Kane, sanctioning the withdrawal, equipped them from limited supplies. In December they returned to the vessel, broken in body and morale. Kane became doctor, nurse, and cook to a shipful of bedridden men. With indomitable courage he planned and then executed their escape. The Advance, still frozen in, was abandoned May 20, 1855. With the loss of one man, the party, carrying the invalids, reached Upernivik, in eighty-three days, a retreat which stands in the annals of Arctic exploration as archetype of victory in defeat" (DAB).
Arctic Bibliography 8373, Sabin 37001, TPL 3566.
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2011 April New York Signature Rare Books Auction #6053 (go to Auction Home page)
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