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2 volumes, 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispiece; 3pp. publisher's advertisements vol. I. (A few leaves becoming disbound or brittle, some minor browning.) Publisher's brown cloth decorated in gilt and blind (rebacked preserving original spines). Provenance: Collector's bookplate, a few pencil marks.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, preceded by an edition in French published in 1854 and published posthumously. Bellot joined Captain Kennedy's expedition to find the Franklin expedition from 1851 to 1852.  During an overland sledging journey, he discovered the strait that now bears his name.  He served on an expedition the following year in search of Franklin, and died after falling through ice while crossing Wellington Channel.  So beloved was Bellot that a monument erected in his honor outside the Royal Hospital in Greenwich, which is depicted on the covers of the present volumes. Arctic Bibliography 1304; Lande S169; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 3232.