Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Inglefield, E. A. (Edward Augustus), 1820-1894
Title:
A summer search for Sir John Franklin : with a peep into the polar basin / by Commander E.A. Inglefield, R.N. ; with short notices by Professor Dickie, on the botany, and by Dr. Sutherland, on the meteorology and geology ; and a new chart of the Arctic Sea.
Published / Created:
London : Thomas Harrison, 59, Pall Mall, (Late John Ollivier), 1853.
Physical Description:
[2], xxi, [1], 232 p., [5] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
G665 1852 .I54
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Map engraved by J. & C. Walker.

Illustrations are tinted lithographs, unsigned. Numbers 1 and 4 have three tints; numbers 2 and 3, one tint.

Appendices: Notes on flowering plants and algae, collected during the voyage of the "Isabel" / by G. Dickie, M.D. -- A few remarks on the physical geography, etc., of Davis straits and its east and west shores / by P.C. Sutherland, surgeon to the expidition -- Meteorology. Abstracts of the three-hourly meteorological register kept on board the discovery-ship "Isabel" by P.C. Sutherland, Esq., surgeon, in the North Atlantic, Davis straits, & Baffin Bay. July to November, 1852 -- Proceedings of Commander E. A. Inglefield, R.N., commanding the private screw steam-vessel Isabel on a voyage of Arctic discovery.

Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 642

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in publisher's blind- and gilt-stamped cloth binding.
Subject Terms:
Franklin, John, 1786–1847. | Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration, British. | Archaeological expeditions -- Canada, Northern. | Isabel (Ship) | Botany -- Arctic regions. | Northwest Passage. | Physical geography -- Arctic regions. | Harrison, Thomas -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1853. | Engravings -- 1853.
Contributors:
Dickie, George, 1813?-1882. | Sutherland, Peter C. (Peter Cormack), 1822–1900. | Inglefield, E. A. (Edward Augustus), 1820–1894. | J. & C. Walker (Firm), engraver.