Franklin Expedition | Urgent appeal broadside, 1857

FRANKLIN EXPEDITION

Urgent appeal in aid of Lady Franklin's final expedition, 1857. Address issued by the General Committee in London. Boston: John Morton, [1857]

Broadside (285 x 220mm.), printed recto only, vertical and horizontal folds

A RARE BROADSIDE APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC FOR DONATIONS to Lady Franklin's expedition to search for her husband Sir John Franklin and the crew of the "Erebus" and "Terror", who went missing in their attempt to discover a Northwest Passage in 1845. We have traced only one other example of this broadside (Forest Books, Miscellany Ten, 2018, item 62, marked sold). The broadside bears the price 1s.