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GOODSIR, Robert Anstruther (1823-1895). An Arctic Voyage to Baffin's Bay and Lancaster Sound, in Search of Friends with Sir John Franklin. London: John Van Voorst, 1850. 8vo. Illustrated with tinted lithographed frontispiece and fold-out map with route lined in red. viii, [1]-152 pp. Publisher's full blue cloth, boards double-ruled in blind, spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, yellow coated endleaves (spine toned and worn, rear joint a bit worn, some edgewear, bumping to boards, hinges cracking, inkstamps of the Berlin Polar Archiv on ffep and title-page, some soiling to endleaves). Good. FIRST EDITION OF THIS ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF HIS BROTHER, HENRY, WHO WAS THE SURGEON AND NATURALIST FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION. Arctic Bibliography 5919. Sabin 27931.