Ten Coloured Views taken during the Arctic Expedition of Her Majesty's Ships "Enterprise" and "Investigator," under the command of Captain Sir James C. Ross, R.N., KT., F. R.S., drawn by W.H. Browne, Esq., Lieut. R.N., late of H.M.S. "Enterprise". On Stone by Charles Haghe. With a summary of the various Arctic Expeditions in Search of Captain Sir John Franklin, K.T., K.C.H., and his companions in H.M. Ships "Erebus" and "Terror".

Browne, W. H.

Edité par London: Ackermann and Co., 96, Strand, 1850

Sir Ernest Shackleton's copy, inscribed to him by Campbell Mackellar "Sir Ernest Shackleton from C. D. Mackellar 1921", and with a loosely inserted print of the Cabots' departure from Bristol inscribed by Mackellar "May you find fortune C. D. M.". First edition. Slim folio. pp. 8 [title, list of plates, double-column text in English and French]; 10 tinted lithographic views on 7 plates; very good in the original light blue cloth, panelled in blind, lettered in gilt beneath gilt pendant to upper cover, a.e.g., darkened on spine and outer margins of boards, wear to extrems. of spine with loss to foot of spine, soiling to boards, now contained in a three-quarter leather box with gilt decorated spine. This book is one of three works of the period illustrating the searches for Sir John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition. The fine lithographs were engraved by Charles Haghe after Browne's originals, and depict scenes of Ross's search party and of the ice-scapes through which they travelled - the Great Glacier and Fjord near Upernavik (West Greenland), a ravine in the region of the winter quarters at Port Leopold, the cliffs at Whaler Point on Somerset Island, and Leopold Island nearby. There are also views of ships locked in the pack-ice and of the sledges arriving at the southern depôt. The text contains a brief account of the Franklin search expeditions in the central Canadian Arctic, notably that of Sir James C. Ross in 1848-9 with its wintering at Port Leopold and the work of its search party. This copy was presented to Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer, by one of his supporters, Campbell Mackellar, for whom Mount Mackellar in the Antarctic was named. At the time that he received the book, Shackleton was contemplating an expedition to the Canadian Arctic, but a lack of support from the Canadian authorities prompted him to decide to head south on the Quest for what proved to be his final expedition (he died aboard the Quest, off South Georgia, on January 5th, 1922). N° de réf. du vendeur 12872

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Titre : Ten Coloured Views taken during the Arctic ...
Éditeur : London: Ackermann and Co., 96, Strand
Date d'édition : 1850
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Very Good
Edition : 1st Edition