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First edition of this scarce book by J. Henry Skewes, Sir John Franklin, recounting the events of Franklin's disappearance.
First edition of this scarce book by J. Henry Skewes, Sir John Franklin, recounting the events of Franklin's disappearance.
First edition of this scarce book by J. Henry Skewes, Sir John Franklin, recounting the events of Franklin's disappearance.

SKEWES, J. Henry.

Sir John Franklin. The True Secret of the Discovery of his Fate. A "Revelation".

London, Bemrose & Sons, 1889.

£1,500.00
£1,500.00

Sir John Franklin.

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Scarce history of the disappearance of Franklin's expedition. Skewes was one of the first to put all the information from the subsequent searches into a single highly digestible narrative of the fateful events that stranded the Terror and Erebus.

First edition; 8vo (19 x 13.5 cm); 2 in-text maps; publisher's original blue-green cloth, upper board and spine lettered in gilt, a little rubbed with a few bubbles to cloth, a very good copy; xvi, 243, [1] pp.

Stock code 122430

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First edition of this scarce book by J. Henry Skewes, Sir John Franklin, recounting the events of Franklin's disappearance.

Sir John Franklin.

£1,500.00
£1,500.00

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NANSEN, Fridtjof.
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WHITNEY, Caspar.
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SVERDRUP, Otto; HEARN, Ethel Harriet (translator).
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KING, Richard.
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SHACKLETON, Edward.
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