Adventure & Exploration Library of Steve Fossett

8vo (199 x 119 mm). Tinted lithographic frontispiece, folding map hand-colored in outline. Publisher's blind-stamped green cloth (hinges reinforced). Provenace: A. Washburn (signature); Sidney Brooks (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of Goodsir's narrative of a 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. A VERY FINE COPY. Arctic Bibliography 5919; Lande 1192; Sabin 27931.