8vo. 4 lithotint plates, folding lithographed map. (Some spotting to map and a few leaves.) Original blue cloth decorated in gilt and blind (joints just starting, spine very slightly leaned, some light rubbing). Provenance: John Peatchcott (early signature); early signature partially effaced; collector's bookplate, a few pencil marks. 

FIRST EDITION. Snow served as the purser on the 1850 Franklin search expedition aboard the Prince Albert, which was sponsored by Lady Franklin. "Though the Prince Albert crew discovered traces of the Franklin expedition's first winter encampment on Beechey Island, upon their empty-handed return, Snow was convinced that Forsyth had sabotaged the success of the search by his refusal to go on or to pursue Snow's foretold route. For years afterwards, Snow persistently but vainly petitioned the Admiralty to send him out again in command of any vessel, however small..." (Hill). Arctic Bibliography 16362; Hill 1598; Sabin 85560.