Franklin Captain John (37 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 8vo., 291 pp. Black and white illustrations. Includes a new introduction by the modern maritime historian James P. Delgado and the introduction from the 1908 edition by Captain Robert F. Scott. The original title of Franklin's journal was 'Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-20-21-22'. This expedition was almost as disastrous as the 1845 expedition that resulted in the deaths of himself and his crew. This is a reproduction of the 1908 edition with added background information coming from archaeological excavation of the site where Franklin and his crew camped while awaiting rescue. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.…

Condition: New. 2006 reprint by Rediscovery Books SB, colour platesPublished Price £25 This is John Franklin's narrative of his near fatal expedition in the years 1819 to 1822, to explore by land, the Northern Coast of North America (Canada). Covering more than 5,000 miles, during which many of his men died, he describes in fascinating detail the trials and tribulations encountered by them. In particular his friendship and empathy with the Indians that they met and befriended in their travels up to the Arctic paid dividends when their strength and resources waned. The book contains many plates illustrating their journey and encounters; together with substantial contributions from colleagues covering the natural history of the region and the Aurora Borealis.Ironically, Franklin survived this dangerous trip only to disappear with two ships and companies of men on an Arctic voyage in search of the legendary North West Passage over twenty years later.…

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Thus. Dark red cloth, gold foil on black title panel on upper spine. Former owner's signature inked out at top corner of front flyleaf, otherwise as issued. Color illus. dust jacket shows slight sunning to red lettering on spine panel, otherwise as issued, now in mylar. xl,320,clvii pp., illus. w/ reproductions of engraved plates, illus. in text, large folding map in rear pocket. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 812 pages. 7.00x1.61x10.00 inches. In Stock.

octavo full leather boards with gilt rule, elborate gilt tooling to spine, marbled eps, xxvii + 403pp + 1pp adverts, folding maps, illus VG- ( moderate wear to boards and loss to spine label, front gutter cracked but sound, sporadic soiling throughout, tear and loosening to frontis, tear and small loss (not affect plates) to folding map, rear folding map largely missing, only a fragment remains) A tired copy, but still sound and certainly readable.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. xl, 320, clvii p. 26 cm. Sound and square binding in red silk-like cloth-covered boards. Top forecorner on upper board has been lightly bumped. The top edge of the text block is faintly foxed. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. The dust jacket has some wear to the spine ends and the spine is a little faded. Shelf rubbed overall. "Includes an Account of the Progress of a Detachment to the Eastward" by John Richardson. (from title page) A facsimile edition of the record of Sir John Franklin's second exploratory voyage to the Arctic. Includes six folded maps in rear pocket. Illustrated with engravings. Part of the publisher's Canadian reprint series. May require extra postage due to weight of book.…

1st Hurtig Ed. Royal 8vo. xl + 320pp. + clvii + [iii]. 31 plates, 6 folding maps in pocket at rear. Ex.-libris Ann Savours Shirley with sm. label and inscription, from the Library of Jerrold Northrop Moore, sl. shaken, original gilt lettered cloth stained along top edge of upper board and spine, chipped and sl. torn d/w. repaired in parts to verso, lightly faded to spine. Additional postage may be necessary US$82. …

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Hardback in Very Good+ condition with Very Good+ dust jacket. . 4to 11" - 13" tall. 768 pages. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Thicker Larger 8vo pp. xl, 320, clvii, 29 plates, 6 folding maps at rep, A nice copy of this travel narrative. book.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A clean, tight copy; please see image.;FDR tames not only the two parties but Wall Street, Tammany Hall and Uncle Sam himself. 76 pages; Additional images and further information provided upon request. ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Alajalov (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Facsimile Reprint. xx, [2], 768 pages. "This work is significant not only as a record of accomplishment in exploration, but in providing insight into Franklin's abilities as a leader which were to be of even greater significance in his final expedition years later." - from dust jacket. Includes appendix on various subjects relating to science and natural history. 11 colour plates. 19 black and white plates. Three maps stored in pocket inside back board. Prior owner's handwritten name and date upon front free endpaper else unmarked. Book very handsome in bright red cloth with brilliant gilt spine lettering and decoration. Very light wear to boards. Small spots of discolouration to periphery of endpapers caused by yellowed adhesive tape prior owner applied to protect dust jacket edges. Dust jacket, now in archival-grade Brodart, bears moderate wear, yellowed adhesive tape along edges. A sound copy. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

xx,(2),255; vi,268; vi,265;vi,269,(2) pp. Four Volumes. 16 mo. Original green cloth with original paper labels on each volume. All edges untrimmed. Each volume rebacked at an early date, retaining the original spine. Very well done. 23 plates and a folding map. Six portraits including a Portrait of Franklin as the frontispiece in Vol. 1. Generally a very clean set with new portraits of Franklin, Back and Richardson and the native Augustus. N.M.M Cat I, 844. It seems this set includes the full text for the first Expedition and only a brief summary for the second. Many of the plates and the appendixes were not reprinted. Nice sets in the original cloth are scarce. It is interesting to wonder why Murray chose to publish such a small sized edition as he also published the same for William Edward Parry's voyages.…

Quarter Leather. Condition: Very good. First Edition, First Issue. Quarto, xvi, [errata], 768pp, [8], [maps]. Three-quarter brown calf, marbled boards, title stamped in gilt. Original spine re-laid over contemporary calf. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of "Alexander A. Berens" and a bookseller's description on the front pastedown. Bookplate of "John A. Davidson" on the rear pastedown. Period ownership inscription on second free endpaper. This work is complete, with 30 engraved plates (12 hand-colored) and four folding maps, all with tissue guards, engraved by Edward Finden after drawings by Lt. Hood and Lt. George Back. General toning throughout, a few plates with light foxing along margins. Includes the errata leaf, but lacking half title. (Sabin 25624) (Arctic Bibliography 5194) (Field 560) This work is the first issue, with the text ending on p. 768. This work details John Franklin's Coppermine Expedition (1819-1822), formally the British Arctic Land Expedition, an overland venture aimed at charting the northern coast of North America eastward from the mouth of the Coppermine River. Traveling from Hudson Bay through the Canadian interior by canoe and on foot, Franklin reached the Arctic Ocean in July 1821 and surveyed several hundred miles of previously unmapped coastline, but the return journey became catastrophic due to inadequate provisioning and harsh weather. Starvation, exposure, and disease devastated the party, resulting in eleven deaths-including murder and suspected cannibalism, yet it still produced valuable geographic data about the polar region. The first edition, first issue of Narrative Of A Journey To The Shores Of The Polar Sea by Captain John Franklin, published in 1823. (illustrator).…

First editions of the official narratives ofÂFranklin's first and second voyages to the Polar Sea. Quarto, two volumes uniformly bound in full period-style speckled calf with morocco gilt-lettered labels and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, gilt turn-ins. First Narrative: First edition, first issue with the Errata slip, illustrated with 30 plates 11 of which are finely hand colored and 4 folding maps. Second Expedition: First edition illustrated with 31 plates and 6 folding maps, 1 with hand color outline. Sabin 25624 and 26228. Arctic Bibliography 5194 and 5198. In near fine condition. A superb set of this classic of travel literature in a stunning binding. Franklinâs expedition intended to survey the âwestern shore of the great inland sea⦠[then] strike out onto the tundra to the headwaters of the Coppermine River,â covering â5,000 miles by foot and canoeâ (Berton, 64-5). Franklin and his party suffered a series of misfortunes that let to âstarvation, the loss of essential boats, a murder and an execution, probable cannibalism, and a final diet of lichen and boot leather,â along with the death of eleven men. This extraordinary account of that disaster-laded expedition is illustrated with 30 plates, including 11 hand-colored plates that were âengraved by Finden, from drawings by Lieutenants Hood and Back. The appendix on natural history is very importantâ¦. [and] the views of Arctic scenery are of extreme beautyâ (Hill, 112). âThe work is an invaluable one for the history of the discovery of the regions⦠and for the interesting descriptions and details of the many tribes of Indians and Esquimaux met withâ (Stevens 1706). The extensive appendices, not included in later editions, include notes on the Aurora Borealis, tables on latitude and longitude, temperatures, and detailed geological, astronomical and botanical and zoological sections. "[The first] journey was made to the mouth of the Coppermine River, largely overland and with the aid of canoes. The coast east of the mouth was surveyed. It is one of the most terrible journeys on record, many of the party dying from cold, hunger, or murder. The distance travelled was some 5,500 miles, andÂFranklin's narrative at once became a classic of travel literature.ÂFranklin's second overland expedition made its departure from FortÂFranklinÂon the Great Bear Lake. He traced the North American coast from the Mackenzie River to longitude 149deg 37' W., while John Richardson's party explored the coast between the mouths of the Mackenzie and the Coppermine. The two expeditions together added 1,200 miles of coast line to the knowledge of the American continent, andÂFranklinÂreceived several honours and became a popular hero. The views of the Arctic scenery in this work are noted for their beauty" (Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages 635, 636).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good, Clean, Some Wear To Boards And Calf At Extremities, Fade at Upper Spine Area, Sm Quarto, Half Calf, Spine and Corners Wrapped, Marbled Boards, xv,PP.783, Twenty Six Plates, There are Eleven Hand Colored Plates and a second Identical Extra-Illustraterd Uncolored Plates Identical Illustrations with Publisher and Illustrator Credits in The Same Weight Paper ( not Proof Before Letters), B & W Engraving And A Second Hand Colored, Followed By Four Plates Of Plants At The End Of The Appendix And Followed By Four Maps The Order Of Which and Titles Are Different Than the Book Index shows: Chart of the Discoveries & Route Northern Land Expedition Under The Command Of Captain Franklin, An Outline To Show The Connected Discoveries Of Captains Ross, Parry, & Franklin in the Years 1818, 19, 20, 21, 22 & 23 Which is Hand Colored Showing the Outline Of Water and A Route In Red Line, Route From York Factory To Isle A Cumberland House and The Summer & Winter Tracks From There To Isle A La Cross in 1819 & 1820,And The Fourth Map is Route Of The Expedition From Isle A LA Cross TO Fort Providence in 1819 & 20, Provenance: from the Sitwell Family Library At Weston Hall U. K. The Sitwell Family Seat For 300 Years. This Book Likely Arrived At Weston Hall During The time Of Harriet W. Wrightson 1788-1864 and Col. Henry Hely- Hutchinson Who Was The Nephew of General Lord Hutchinson (later 2nd Earl Of Dronoughmore. It Remained Their Until The Family Sold The Library at Auction in 2021.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITIONS, QUARTO, TWO WORKS, PUBLISHED 1823 & 1828. MATCHING LEATHER BINDINGS , xv, 783 pp.[1 errata] xxiv,[4 (paginated xxi-xxiv)],320,clvii pp. plus errata leaf, Complete Copies with ALL engraved plates, maps present, [spotting, offsetting, toning to few plates]. some plates are hand-coloured, few maps are large folding.[two linen lined, very small fold loss] Handsomely rebound half brown leather, raised bands, gilt ruled over green cloth boards, red leather gilt titles, modern endpapers, marbled foredges. Excellent.…

Hardcover. Condition: ex library-fair. First Edition. xxiv, 320, clvii p. 29 cm. 31 plates. 5 maps (#5 missing). Full leather with gold trim. All edges gilt. Ex library with labels on endpapers, ink notation on rear of title page. Front board detached. Corners and edges worn, spine missing, stain on front, scuffs to leather. Tear in inner margin of title and page opposite. Ink stain on text block edge. Rough edge to one rear fold-out map. Franklin explored the Arctic coast from the Mackenzie Delta west to Point Barrow, while Richardson's team explored east to the mouth of the Coppermine River. Their combined exploration added 1200 miles of coast line to the map of the Canadian Arctic. Plates are fine engravings by Edward Finden after drawings and sketches by Lieut. Kendall and Capt. Back. Scientific data listed in Appendices. TPL 1434. Lande 1182. Sabin 25628.…

xvi,768 pp. Quarto. Bound in half 19th century half straight grain dark blue morocco and blue cloth. Spine ruled in six compartments. Horizontal fillets. Gilt center tool of a sailing ship. Top edge trimmed and other edges untrimmed. Outer joints a bit worn. Marbled endpapers. Half title. Thirty plates (including twelve hand-coloured) and four folding maps (at end). A few plates with a small marginal tide line. Most of the original plate tissues present. Errata at the end of the text. 8 pages of Murray's ads dated 1823 at the end. Generally, a very nice clean attractive superior copy. AB 5194; Hill p.111 (first Issue), Peel 80, Lande 1181, TPL 1248. Classic overland travel narrative with an important appendix on natural history. The journey was made to the mouth of the Coppermine River and then on to Point Turnagain. The party travelling overland some 5,500 miles with the aid of canoes, during which many of the party died from cold, hunger, or murder. The plates were engraved by Finden, from drawings by Hood, Back and Kendall. With the bookplate of Edward Thomas on the front pastedown. John Richardson wrote the important Botanical appendix to the volume. The earliest issue with all of the folding maps dated March 1823. It was after this harrowing journey that Franklin was referred to as "The man who ate his boots!" Not a rare book but very hard to find a special copy like this.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; Hardcover. Brown leather boards with gold design at board edges. Title in gold over black leather label on gold decorated spine. Boards are noticeably scuffed and worn. Frayed edges, some sunning. Marbleized edges match marbleized endpapers. Occasional foxing throughout. 4 maps, 30 plates of which 11 are hand colored. All are in nice condition, some light foxing/soil. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.; B/w Illus; 4TO.…

Edition : First editions, first issues, Contemporary marbled boards rebacked expertly, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt ornamented compartments and gilt title on two. Front and lower edges uncut., In 1819, Franklin was chosen to lead an expedition overland from Hudson Bay to chart the north coast of Canada eastwards from the mouth of the Coppermine River.[10] On his 1819 expedition, Franklin fell into the Hayes River at Robinson Falls and was rescued by a member of his expedition about 90 metres (98 yd) downstream. Between 1819 and 1822, he lost 11 of the 20 men in his party. Most died of starvation, but there were also at least one murder and suggestions of cannibalism. The survivors were forced to eat lichen and even attempted to eat their own leather boots. This gained Franklin the nickname of "the man who ate his boots".In 1825, he left for his second Canadian and third Arctic expedition. The goal this time was the mouth of the Mackenzie River from which he would follow the coast westward and possibly meet Frederick William Beechey who would try to sail northeast from the Bering Strait. With him was John Richardson who would follow the coast east from the Mackenzie to the mouth of the Coppermine River. At the same time, William Edward Parry would try to sail west from the Atlantic. (Beechey reached Point Barrow and Parry became frozen in 900 miles east. At this time, the only known points on the north coast were a hundred or so miles east from the Bering Strait, the mouth of the Mackenzie, Franklin's stretch east of the Coppermine, and a bit of the Gulf of Boothia which had been seen briefly from land.) Supplies were better organized this time, in part because they were managed by Peter Warren Dease of the Hudson's Bay Company. After reaching the Great Slave Lake using the standard HBC route, Franklin took a reconnaissance trip 1,000 miles down the Mackenzie and on 16 August 1825, became the second European to reach its mouth. He erected a flagpole with buried letters for Parry. He returned to winter at Fort Franklin on the Great Bear Lake. The following summer he went downriver and found the ocean frozen. He worked his way west for several hundred miles and gave up on 16 August 1826 at Return Reef when he was about 150 miles east of Beechey's Point Barrow. Reaching safety at Fort Franklin on 21 September, he left Fort Franklin on 20 February 1827 and spent the rest of the winter and spring at Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. He reached Liverpool on the first of September 1827. Richardson's eastward journey was more successful.Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer of the Arctic. Franklin also served as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen?s Land (now Tasmania) from 1837 to 1843. He disappeared on his last expedition, attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The icebound ships were abandoned and the entire crew perished from starvation, hypothermia, tuberculosis, lead poisoning and scurvy. The work included extensive appendix on science and natural history, Wagner Camp: ?of interest not only as a document of human courage and endurance, but alas for its depiction of the Indians - Cree, Dog - Rib, and Chipewyan - on whom the survival of the expedition at last depended.?, Size : Quarto (283 x 225mm). , Voyage (1): Illustrated with 30 hand-coloured plates, including one called for on page 254 but bound as frontispiece; some, esp. portraits or illustrations of persons, in contemporary colour; plus 4 folding maps; - all as listed on table contents. P. Frontispiece entitled ?Keskarrah a Copper Indian Guid ?? , title, printer?s note, dedication to the Earl of Bathurst, blank, half-title , blank, contents (3), list of plates, introduction xi-xvi, errata slip, 1-494, appendix 495-768, advertising (8); with 29 plates and 4 maps.Voyage (2): Illustrated with 30 engraved plates and 6 large folding maps; p. ?, frontispiece entitled ?the Esquimaux Pillaging the Boats?, advertisement, title, dedication to the Earl of Bathurst, blank, contents (2), appendix, list of plates, introduction (ix-xxiv), official instructions (4), 1- 320, appendix (i-clvii), errata, blank., Volume : 2 volumes., References : Abbey Travel 635 (1st title); Sabin 25624; Hill Collection 111; field 560; TPL 1248; Lande 1181; Peel 80; Wagner Camp 23:1 A handsome copy in very good condition, text and plates are clean and crisp, very slight occasional faint browning of only few pages.…

Edition : First edition, first issue. , Contemporary red half-morocco with marbled boards. Spine with five raised blind bands, gilt ornamented compartments and gilt title on two; pasted and free endpapers in matching marble. Front and lower edges uncut., Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 ? 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer of the Arctic. Franklin also served as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) from 1837 to 1843. He disappeared on his last expedition, attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The icebound ships were abandoned and the entire crew perished from starvation, hypothermia, tuberculosis, lead poisoning and scurvy. The work includes the extensive Appendix on science and natural history. Wagner Camp: ?Of interest not only as a document of human courage and endurance, but also for its depiction of the Indians - Cree, Dog - Rib, and Chipewyan- on whom the survival of the expedition at last depended.? , Size : Quarto (283x225mm)., Illustrated with 30 hand-coloured plates, including one called for on page 254 but bound as frontispiece; some, esp. portraits or illustrations of persons, in contemporary colour; plus 4 folding maps; - all as listed on table of contents. , upper margin of verso to title with penciled manuscript note: ?Bequest of R. B. Dixon // Rec?d May 7, 1936.? , References : Abbey Travel 635 (1st title); Sabin 25624; Hill Collection 111; Field 560; TPL 1248; Lande 1181; Peel 80; Wagner Camp 23:1 , Frontispiece entitled Keskarrah a Copper Indian Guide ?? , title, printer?s note, dedication to the Earl of Bathurst, blank, half-title, blank, contents (3), list of plates, introduction xi-xvi, errata slip, 1-494, appendix 495-768, advertising (8); with 29 plates and 4 maps. A handsome copy in very good condition, with text and plates mostly clean and crisp; very slight occasional faint browning of only few pages.…

1st Tuttle Ed. Royal 8vo. [xxii] + 768pp. Colour frontis., 25 plates, 4 folding maps in pocket at rear. Ex.-libris Ann Savours Shirley with sm. label and signature, from the Library of Jerrold Northrop Moore, lightly rubbed d/w. lightly faded to spine. Additional postage may be necessary US$82.

Four volumes. 16mo. Contemporary full calf, plainly rebacked, gilt lettered brown labels, marbled endpapers, all edges red. 23 plates and a folding map, including 6 portraits. Some light foxing to the front and rear of each volume, a decent set overall. An intrepid but costly expedition to map the northernmost reaches of the American continent. Franklin travelled over 5,000 miles but lost members of his party to the elements and also to murder. First published 1823.…

With plates. 24mo. With plates. 24mo. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 5193; PILLING 1329; TPL 7214; WAGNER-CAMP 23:8 Original green cloth. VG, non-authorial inscription Dec. 5th, 1856.

First Edition. Oictavo. Frontispiece, xxvii, 403pp., (1)pp. publisher's ad, large folding map bound in at rear, folding map at page x, folding facsimile of a record found of Franklin's expedition, along with several engravings. Many have searched and failed to locate John Franklin and the crew of the Fox until M'Clintock took up the challenge of a voyage to find the missing crew. He eventually discovered one of the ships' lifeboats on King William Island. It was clear that some of the explorers had survived through two winters. The bones found revealed disease was prevalent. Most died of starvation, but evidence also showed lead poisoning could have been a factor. And, cutting marks left on some bones show they may have turned to cannibalism to survive. No one survived. Rebound in a modern 1/4 brown leather over marbled paper covered boards, raised bands, compartments fully gilt decorated, red and black contrasting labels gilt, all edges marbled, endpapers renewed. A very clean bright copy.…