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[DONNETT, James L., editor]. Arctic Miscellanies. A Souvenir of the Late Polar Search. by the Officers and Seamen of the Expedition. London: Colburn and Co., Publishers, 1852. 8vo. Tinted lithographed frontispiece, numerous intertextual illustrations. xviii, [1]-[348], [8, 24, ii, ads] pp. Publisher's full cream straight-grain cloth, boards triple-ruled in gilt with gilt central sailing ship motifs, spine stamped in gilt, all edges gilt (spine browned and worn, boards worn and soiled, front hinge cracked with old tape repair, ffep and front blank loose but present, rear hinge starting, bookseller's ticket on rp., frontispiece nearly detached, gutter facing frontispiece starting, a few gutters starting, some toning, occasional foxing in text). Fair. FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE “collection of articles extracted from a manuscript newspaper called 'Aurora borealis,' published monthly and edited by one of the officers of the Assistance, during the expedition under Sir H. T. Austin in search of Franklin, 1850-51, in Canadian Arctic waters. The collection includes a variety of whimsical and informative articles by members of the expedition, on animals and birds, sledge journeys, entertainment, history, and the Eskimos…" (Arctic Bibliography). Arctic Bibliography 651 (about the second edition). Sabin 1924.