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Description: 417pp. Octavo [22 cm] Rebound in a maroon calf with decorative stamping to extremities and gilt title and bands on backstrip. New marbled endsheets and pastedowns. Very good. Ex-library with only a few marks (Small ink stamps on front free endsheet, half-title and title page). Front free endsheet chipped at top corner. Otherwise a clean copy. Includes three color plates and a folding map. The plate of "Cape Bathurst, Meeting with Esquimax" is slightly chipped along the bottom edge. Internally very good and clean. William Hooper was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy assigned to the expedition of 1848 to search for the Franklin party. A very rare, Sir John Franklin Expedition and Arctic title. The book also contains information on the culture of the North Alaska Esquimaux and the Tuski.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$874.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition of this truly fascinating account, important for its descriptions of the manners, customs, and culture of the Inuit and other native tribes, particularly the Chukchi (Tuski) people. Thick 8vo: xv,[1],417,[1]pp, with 4 full-page tinted lithographs (by J. Brandard after P. Skill), 3 line drawings (2 full-page), 4 woodcut vignettes, and folding partially colored lithographed map. Bound without half-title. Contemporary elaborately paneled (in gilt and blind) full green morocco, ornate gilt central ornament on upper cover, richly gilt spine in compartments between five raised bands; all edges gilt, pale yellow end papers, brown silk page marker. Elegantly inscribed in fountain pen to front fly-leaf: [To] "Alfred F. A. Hanbury Tracy [presumably a close relation of the British politician Frederick Stephen Archibald Hanbury-Tracy, 1848-1906] / with the best wishes / of his affectionate friend / John Hetherington / on his leaving Eton / Election. 1863." A superlative copy, barely used, in bespoke binding. Preliminaries foxed, else virtually spotless; all plates pristine; raised bands lightly rubbed. Sabin 32883. Abbey, Travel, 641. Arctic Bibliography I, 7395. Field, Indian Bibliography 713. Lada-Mocarski 140. Lande 1238. National Maritime Museum I 903. Smith, Pacific Northwest Americana 4615. TPL 3176. Wickersham, Bibliography of Alaskan Literature, 6591. Cooke & Holland, Exploration of Northern Canada, pp. 183 and 473. Hooper sailed out of Plymouth as mate of the H.M.S. Plover on January 30, 1848, on a three-year mission to search for and relieve Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage Expedition of 1845. Hooper led a party along the coast of the Bering Strait as far as Cape Atcheen, and through the winter mixed with the local people, whom he called Tuski, and whose language he learned. The following summer, in one of the Plover's boats, explored as far as the mouth of the Mackenzie River. Finally, in 1851, abandoning the Plover, the entire search party traveled overland to New York, and reached England in October. "Hooper's health had given way under the hardships of three Arctic winters, and he became a confirmed invalid, relieving the tedium of his illness by writing [this] account of the expedition." He died the following year, aged twenty-seven. (ODNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xv, [1] 417 pgs. 4 colour lithograph plates with tissue guards. All in excellent condition. 2 b/w plates & several in text illustrs.Folding colour map at end.(no tears) Blue, blind stamped cloth with gilt decoration to front cover & gilt titles along the spine. Recently recased with a new cloth back with original cloth over. Original endpapers preserved. Excellent restoration overall. No names, no marks in text, not exlibris. Priority shipping recommended. Additional photos available if required. Inquiries welcome. (Cooke & Holland, The Exploration of Northern Canada, 1978,pg.182)
Seller: Dale Cournoyer Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: xv,[1],417pp. plus folding map and six plates. Half title. Later blue morocco, front board embossed in gilt, original cloth labels. Contemporary ownership inscription on half title. Text block broken in several places, leaves and gatherings detached. Tanning and dampstaining. Fair. A scarce Franklin search narrative, with an excellent provenance, having been owned by Arctic explorer Frederick A. Cook, whose ownership inscription is on the half title. Frederick A. Cook claimed to have reached the North Pole in 1908, the year before Peary's (also doubtful) expedition, but his assertion was widely discredited and his reputation never recovered. Regardless, he was an accomplished Arctic explorer who took a particular interest in ethnography, whether he actually reached the North Pole or not. His copy of Hooper's work is clearly well-read, and may have been a close companion on one of his journeys. In the first part of the book Hooper describes his experiences in Chukchi land and of the inhabitants. The second section describes the extraordinary voyage and journey, made firstly in the H.M.S. Plover's open whale boats beginning in July 1849. "Lieutenant Hooper participated in the search for Sir John Franklin.passing through the Bering Strait and turning eastward.The principal interest of this work lies in the author's description of the Chukchi land and of its population (whom he calls Tuski) gathered during his 10 months' stay in the northeastern extremity of Asia bordering on the Bering Strait" - Lada-Mocarski. Important for his observations on the native peoples in the area. An excellent association copy of an uncommon work on the Franklin search, in keeping with its former owner's interests by providing much ethnographic detail on the indigenous people encountered by Hooper. LADA-MOCARSKI 140. TPL 3176. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 1848. FIELD 713.
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$3202.16 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Publisher's original blue cloth, blind stamped, with gilt vignette and lettering. A single leaf of publisher's advertisements bound to read dated June 1853. A near fine copy in uncommonly nice condition. A touch of wear to the spine ends and minor toning to the spine but otherwise clean and bright. Tinted lithograph frontispiece, three further tinted lithographs, six black and white sketches, one sketch map, and one folding map of the route in colour to the rear. A beautiful copy of Hooper's account of three successive winters in the Arctic, having initially been part of an early Franklin search mission on HMS Plover. Between October 1848 and July 1849 the expedition wintered in Emma Bay during which he "led a party along the coast as far as Cape Atcheen, and through the winter mixed with the local people, whom he called Tuski, and whose language he learned" (ODNB). Unrepaired copies in the original cloth, especially in as nice condition as this, are uncommon.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom