Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller

London: Published by Ackermann & Co., 15th March, 1852. First edition. Tall folio. Lithographed title-page with hand-colored vignette, lithographed Preface, and 57 completely lithographed pages. Illustrated with numerous in-text lithographic vignettes, some hand-colored, as well as one full-page hand-colored lithograph, all largely by McDougall. Publisher's blue cloth-covered pictorial boards, ruled in blind, decorated in gilt on front board, rebacked, soiling to boards, corners moderately worn; all edges trimmed; light spotting and creasing to title-page; scattered light wear and short closed tears along edges, heavier on pp. 54/55; sheets lightly toned. From the Arctic and Antarctic Collection of Gerald F. Fitzgerald, and with his illustrated book-plate on front paste-down. Abbey, Travel 639; Arctic Bibliography 22800; Sabin 1921

Scarce and lovely first edition of this lithographic reproduction of the manuscript newspaper created onboard the H.M.S. Resolute during its search mission for Sir John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition. Created by Lieutenant Sherard Osborne and George McDougall during the Resolute's forced wintering in Barrow Strait, in 1850-51, all five monthly issues are here reproduced, and provide an important first-hand glimpse into the daily life of the crew and its findings, including the first traces of Franklin's first winter quartering on Beechey Island.