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[BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS]. Further Papers Relative to the Recent Arctic Expeditions in Search of Sir J. Franklin, and the Crews of Her Majesty's Ships "Erebus" and "Terror". London: Harrison and Sons, 1856. FIRST EDITION.
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[BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS]. Further Papers Relative to the Recent Arctic Expeditions in Search of Sir J. Franklin, and the Crews of Her Majesty's Ships "Erebus" and "Terror". London: Harrison and Sons, 1856. 


Folio (330 x 210 mm). One map (of two). (Some chipping to first and last few leaves, some browning.) Original stab-sewing. Provenance: Collector's bookplate, a few pencil marks. 

FIRST EDITION, including reports fo the second Grinnell expedition, as well as expeditions by Kane, Anderson and Stewart.  Includes information about the  £10,000 reward for the discovery of Franklin's fate. Arctic Bibliography 45249.

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