Polar.- Inglefield (Edward Augustus) A Summer Search for Sir John Franklin; with a Peep into the Polar Basin, first edition, half-title, 4 lithograph plates (including 2 chromolithographs and 1 folding panorama), folding map with short tears, some foxing, original cloth, spine a little darkened, [Abbey, Travel 642; Sabin 34758], 8vo, 1853. ⁂ "In 1852 Inglefield commanded Lady Franklin's private steamer, Isabel, in a summer expedition to the Arctic, and looked into Smith Sound for the first time since it had been named by William Baffin. On his return he published A Summer Search for Sir John Franklin (1853), was elected FRS (2 June 1853), was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society, and the silver medal of the Paris Geographical Society, and was presented with a diamond snuff-box by Napoleon III" (ODNB).
Polar.- Inglefield (Edward Augustus) A Summer Search for Sir John Franklin; with a Peep into the Polar Basin, first edition, half-title, 4 lithograph plates (including 2 chromolithographs and 1 folding panorama), folding map with short tears, some foxing, original cloth, spine a little darkened, [Abbey, Travel 642; Sabin 34758], 8vo, 1853. ⁂ "In 1852 Inglefield commanded Lady Franklin's private steamer, Isabel, in a summer expedition to the Arctic, and looked into Smith Sound for the first time since it had been named by William Baffin. On his return he published A Summer Search for Sir John Franklin (1853), was elected FRS (2 June 1853), was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society, and the silver medal of the Paris Geographical Society, and was presented with a diamond snuff-box by Napoleon III" (ODNB).
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