Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847.... London: T. and W. Boone, 1850. 8vo (220 x 138 mm). viii, 247, [1] + 8 pp ads. Large folding lithographed frontispiece map "Discoveries of the Hudson's Bay Cos. Arctic Expedition to the North of Repulse Bay," and folding map of "Northern America" both by John Arrowsmith. Half title with clipped autograph: "Believe me, faithfully yours John Rae...." Original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and decorated in blind. Small expert repair to hinge of first map, light spotting to first map and first few leaves; spine sunned and back joint frayed though entirely sound. Provenance: Brent Graton-Maxfield (inscription dated 1968, full page of notes on verso of front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. "The purpose of the expedition, sent out by the Hudson's Bay Co., was to explore and map the arctic coast of Canada from Repulse Bay west to Dease and Simpson's farthest exploration eastward ... or if Boothia Felix proved to be a peninsula, to trace the coast north to the place surveyed by John and James Ross 1829-32. The narrative gives an account of the author's boat journey north from Churchill along the west coast of Hudson Bay to Repulse Bay, portage across Rae Isthmus and exploration of southern Committee Bay; the wintering at Repulse Bay, the spring journeys tracing the shores northwestward around Committee Bay, Simpson Peninsula, Pelly Bay and its islands, to the James Ross ... Peninsula..., and northeastward along Melville Peninsula to Cape Crozier" (Arctic Bibliography). "Like all other expeditions by land to the Arctic Ocean, the success of this was attributable largely to the aid derived from the Red Indians and the Esquimaux. In consequence, the volume is occupied to a great extent with a detail of incidents associated with Indian life and habits. The methods by which the hardy aborigines of the Arctic zone prolong their lives, which are one long struggle with starvation and famine, their craft and devices in hunting and fishing, and many other particulars of their condition, are interwoven with the journal" (Field 1253). The appendix contains Rae's lists of the various mammals, birds, plants, rocks, and fish he collected. Arctic Bibliography 14097; Sabin 67428; Streeter 3715; Wagner-Camp 187.
Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847.... London: T. and W. Boone, 1850. 8vo (220 x 138 mm). viii, 247, [1] + 8 pp ads. Large folding lithographed frontispiece map "Discoveries of the Hudson's Bay Cos. Arctic Expedition to the North of Repulse Bay," and folding map of "Northern America" both by John Arrowsmith. Half title with clipped autograph: "Believe me, faithfully yours John Rae...." Original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and decorated in blind. Small expert repair to hinge of first map, light spotting to first map and first few leaves; spine sunned and back joint frayed though entirely sound. Provenance: Brent Graton-Maxfield (inscription dated 1968, full page of notes on verso of front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. "The purpose of the expedition, sent out by the Hudson's Bay Co., was to explore and map the arctic coast of Canada from Repulse Bay west to Dease and Simpson's farthest exploration eastward ... or if Boothia Felix proved to be a peninsula, to trace the coast north to the place surveyed by John and James Ross 1829-32. The narrative gives an account of the author's boat journey north from Churchill along the west coast of Hudson Bay to Repulse Bay, portage across Rae Isthmus and exploration of southern Committee Bay; the wintering at Repulse Bay, the spring journeys tracing the shores northwestward around Committee Bay, Simpson Peninsula, Pelly Bay and its islands, to the James Ross ... Peninsula..., and northeastward along Melville Peninsula to Cape Crozier" (Arctic Bibliography). "Like all other expeditions by land to the Arctic Ocean, the success of this was attributable largely to the aid derived from the Red Indians and the Esquimaux. In consequence, the volume is occupied to a great extent with a detail of incidents associated with Indian life and habits. The methods by which the hardy aborigines of the Arctic zone prolong their lives, which are one long struggle with starvation and famine, their craft and devices in hunting and fishing, and many other particulars of their condition, are interwoven with the journal" (Field 1253). The appendix contains Rae's lists of the various mammals, birds, plants, rocks, and fish he collected. Arctic Bibliography 14097; Sabin 67428; Streeter 3715; Wagner-Camp 187.
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