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 ManuscriptsG665 1852 .I54Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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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, 642BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in publisher's blind- and gilt-stamped cloth binding.
Dickie, George, 1813?-1882. | Sutherland, Peter C. (Peter Cormack), 1822–1900. | Inglefield, E. A. (Edward Augustus), 1820–1894. | J. & C. Walker (Firm), engraver.