A BOOK, Arctica, 1857, Elisha Kent Kane
Arctic explorations: The second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, 54, 55. l-2.
Philadelphia, 1857. 8vo. 464; 468 pp. + 8 pp. adverts. + 2 engraved frontispiece portraits + 2 engraved title-leaves + 3 maps (2 folding) + 18 steel-engraved plates. Numerous engraved vignettes in the text.
Två volymer, förlagets präglade klotband, ngt nötta, samtida namnteckningar på titelsidorna. / Publisher’s blind-stamped cloth, lightly worn, contemporary signatures on title-leaves.
Andra upplagan. / Second edition.
Wear.
Provenance
Karl Becht was a teacher at the Lundsberg School in Värmland, with geography as his main subject. He started collecting books in the early 1930s and specialised in illustrated books of voyages and travel, exploration and discoverey. ”The Karl Bech collection” was given a separate catalogue for its sale at Bukowskis in 1991.