[SEARCH EXPEDITIONS]. A group of 6 titles, including:
SIMMONDS, P.L. Sir John Franklin and the Arctic Regions. London: G. Routledge & Co., 1853. 12mo. Wood-engraved frontispiece and additional title. Contemporary half calf. Third edition. -- PETERSEN, Johan Carl Christian. Den Sidste Franklin Expedition med “Fox”, Capt. M’Clintock. Copenhagen: Fr. Woldikes Forlagsboghandel, 1860. 8vo. Frontispiece, 8 chromolithograph plates, folding plate of Franklin letter, 4 maps including 2 folding. Contemporary half morocco (hand-coloring in compartments, extremities rubbed). -- M’CLINTOCK, Captain. A Narrative of the Discovery of Fate of Sir John Franklin and His Companions. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 8vo. Numerous woodcut plates, folding maps and facsimiles. Original brown cloth gilt. -- GAGE, W.L. Our Lost Explorers: the Narrative of the Jeanette Arctic Expedition. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1882. 8vo. Illustrated. Full contemporary calf (front hinge cracked). -- SCHLEY, W.S. and J.R. SOLEY. The Rescue of Greely. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1885. 8vo. Folding map, numerous plates. Original blue cloth gilt. -- MELVILLE, George. In the Lena Delta. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885. 8vo. Illustrated. Original brown cloth.
Together, 6 works in 6 volumes.