Arctic Explorations : The Second Grinnell Expedition, in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55

x, 11-510pp, eight black and white engraved plates (including frontispiece). Half bound in red leather over marbled paper-covered boards, five ribs, gilt titles on green spine label. Wear to extremities, minor loss to spine head. Wear to covers. Boards detaching from spine cover head. Top text block edge dusty, edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Foxing to prelim pages. Three plates laid-in, loss to one plate's edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, barring occasional foxing. 8vo.