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WELD, Charles Richard (1813-1869). The Search for Sir John Franklin. A Lecture Delivered at The Russell Institution. January 15, 1851. London: Richard Bentley, 1851. 8vo. Illustrated with folding map. 75, [1, blank] pp. Publisher's full blue watered silk cloth, boards ruled in blind, front board lettered in gilt, yellow coated endleaves (boards worn, creased soiled, ffep. missing, text and map toned, foxed, a few gutters starting, binder's ticket on rp.) Good. With the ownership signature of Canadian Hudson's Bay Company officer, Roderick Finlayson, on the fp. THE RARE FIRST EDITION BY SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S SON-IN-LAW, WHO HELPED PLAN FRANKLIN'S ILL-FATED EXPEDITION. “Weld was the chief helper of Sir John Franklin in the home work connected with his Arctic explorations, and was an authority on every matter connected with the polar circle. He issued in 1850 a well-timed lecture on ‘Arctic Expeditions,' originally delivered at the London Institution on 6 Feb. 1850, and this was followed by pamphlets upon the search for Franklin during 1851" (DNB).