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Lot 83
Sale 624 - Adventure & Exploration Library of Steve Fossett
Oct 31, 2018
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Live / Chicago
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GOODSIR, Robert Anstruther (1823-1895). An Arctic Voyage to Baffin's Bay and Lancaster Sound, in search of Friends with Sir John Franklin. London: John Van Voorst, 1850.
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.

