Life with the Esquimaux: the narrative of ... from the 29th May, 1860, to the 13th September, 1862. With the results of a long intercourse with the Innuits, and full description of their mode of life, the discovery of actual relics of the expedition of Martin Frobisher of three centuries ago, and deductions in favour of yet discovering some of the survivors of Sir John Franklin's expedition
London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1864. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo; pp. xvi, 324; xii, 352; 100 wood-engraved maps and illustrations (18 full-page); engraved folding map (with an 8" tear entering from the stub - but no loss); publisher's pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt on upper covers and spines; front free endpaper with cracks at the gutter and the half-title partially loose at the top; two gatherings extended; all else very good. "Contains narrative of the voyage of the George Henry ... to Cornelius Grinnell Bay (just north of Frobisher Bay) on Baffin Island; the exploration by small boat and sledge of Cyrus and Field and Frobisher Bays, [and] the surveying done (the first, and long the only mapping of this area)" (Arctic Bibliography). Arctic Bibliography 6485; Field 640. Item #61083
Price: $2,000.00
