Lot 44

GOODSIR, Robert Anstruther (1823-1895). An Arctic Voyage to Baffin's Bay and Lancaster Sound, in Search of Friends with Sir John Franklin. London: John Van Voorst, 1850. FIRST EDITION.

Sale 1184 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
May 11, 2023 10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$800 - $1,200

Sold for $1,008

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Lot Description
GOODSIR, Robert Anstruther (1823-1895). An Arctic Voyage to Baffin's Bay and Lancaster Sound, in Search of Friends with Sir John Franklin. London: John Van Voorst, 1850.


8vo (199 x 121 mm). Tinted lithographed frontispiece, folding map hand-colored in outline; 8pp. publisher's advertisements at end. (Minor spotting to a few leaves.) Publisher's blind-stamped blue-green cloth, spine gilt-lettered (spine sunned and slightly leaned, front hinge starting). Provenance: Collector's bookplate, a few pencil marks.

FIRST EDITION of Goodsir's narrative of his voyage in search of his brother. The author's brother, Henry Goodsir, had been appointed surgeon and naturalist on the doomed 1845 Franklin Expedition seeking the Northwest Passage. Arctic Bibliography 5919; Lande 1192; Sabin 27931.

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