The Discovery of the North-West Passage by H. M.S. “Investigator,” Capt. R. M’Clure, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854.

Name: The Discovery of the North-West Passage by H. M.S. “Investigator,” Capt. R. M’Clure, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854.
Author: [M’Clure, Robert L. M.] Sherard Osborn, ed.

Book Description

First edition. 8vo. pp. xix, 405; four lithograph plates after originals by Commander S. Gurney Cresswell, one folding map; signs of bookplate removal to front pastedown, else very good in original blue cloth, gilt, an excellent copy.

Dealer Notes

AB 10563; Sabin 47073;Chavanne 1538. Sent out in 1850 by the Admiralty to search for Franklin via Bering Strait, M’Clure in the Investigator and Collinson in the Enterprise made their way to Prince of Wales Strait, where they wintered 1850-51, and explored the shores of Banks Island and M’Clure Strait as far as Mercy Bay. There the Investigator became frozen in the ice, and was later abandoned in June of 1853. M’Clure's sledge party continued eastward over Barrow Strait to Dealy island where they encountered a Franklin search party from Sir Edward Belcher’s expedition travelling westward, and returned with them in 1854 to England, thus completing the first crossing of the Northwest Passage.

Author [M’Clure, Robert L. M.] Sherard Osborn, ed.

Date 1856

Binding Original cloth, gilt

Publisher London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts.

Condition See description

Pages xix, 405

Price: £3500.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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