8vo (239 x 149 mm). Folding route map frontispiece; 4pp. publisher's advertisements at front. (Frontispiece toned, minor spotting.) Original cloth-backed boards, printed paper label on spine, uncut (rebacked preserving original cloth and endpapers, some light staining and wear). Provenance: Missouri Historical Society (bookplate); collector's bookplate, a few pencil marks.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of "one of the fundamental books on Arctic exploration." Reprinted in the same year as the First Edition, which was published in London by John Murray. Back covered over 7,500 miles, 1,200 of which were in previously unknown territory. His narrative holds literary esteem and is "full of details about the Cree, Chippewa, Coppermine Indians, and other tribes, upon whom members of the exhibition were obliged to depend during a terrible winter" (Hill). Arctic Bibliography 851; Field 63; Hill 42; Sabin 2613; Streeter Sale 3704; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 1873; Wagner-Camp 58b:1.