Arctic explorations: . the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. By Elisha Kent Kane, M.D., U.S.N. Illustrated by upwards of three hundred engravings, from sketches by the author. ...
Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857)
Category
Books
Date
1856
Materials
bookcloth, paper
Measurements
232 x 160 mm; 44 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
United States
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3088529.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.1.,plates . ill..,maps ( two folded),ports.. . 8vo.. Bookseller's note on endpaper: '2vols First Edition pub 36/-'. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Publisher's engraved cloth.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857)