Nobu Shirase and the Japanese Antarctic Expedition: the Collection of Chet Ross
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OSBORN, Sherard, Lieut. (1822-1875). Stray Leaves from an A...
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OSBORN, Sherard, Lieut. (1822-1875). Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin?s Expedition in the Years 1850-51. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852. 8vo. 4 tinted lithographed plates including frontispiece, large folding lithographed map, wood-engraved illustrations (one plate partially dampstained, some spotting to map, some offsetting from plates to text). Modern cloth. FIRST EDITION of this first-hand account written by one of the commanders on the Franklin search expedition under Capt. H.T. Austin. Arctic Bib. 12899; Sabin 57760; TPL 3193.
