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Franklin, John. NARRATIVE OF A SECOND EXPEDITION

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Franklin, John.  NARRATIVE OF A SECOND EXPEDITION
Franklin, John. NARRATIVE OF A SECOND EXPEDITION TO THE SHORES OF THE POLAR SEA, IN THE YEARS 1825, 1826, AND 1827 ........ London: John Murray 1828 4to. xxiv,320,clviipp. plus errata leaf. Thirty-one plates, 6 folding maps. In modern half calf & marbled boards, spine gilt, marbled edges. Occasiopnal minor spotting in margins of some plates, but a very good copy, Uniformly bound with lot 58

Arctic Bibl. 5198. On his second expedition Franklin explored the Arctic coast from the MacKenzie Delta westward almost to Point Barrow, while Richardson went eastward to the mouth of the Coppermine. Together they added 1200 miles of the coastline to the map of the western Arctic.