White, Captain W.

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Description

Probable Fate of Sir John Franklin and Crew; or, the Scurvy in the Arctic Seas. London: Piper Brothers and Co., 1852
paper

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (210 x 128mm.), 72pp., calf-backed marbled boards

Catalogue Note

RARE. Just three copies are listed on COPAC and there are no auction records for this work.

Correspondence of Captain White with the Lords of the Admiralty in which White observes that bearing in mind the difficulties encountered by previous expeditions "it will be evident the extreme dangers to which Sir John Franklin will have been exposed by the scurvy, as well as navigation in the Arctic seas" (page 27).