Search Results: biography of elisha kent kane by elder william

Childs and Peterson. hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. Philadelphia, 1858; brown cloth covered boards with blind decorative embossing; gold spine title; heavy edge and corner wear with board exposed; spine edges chipped and frayed; corners bumped; Previous owner's name on front end paper; finger smudges on several interior pages, otherwise Interior clean and unmarked; 416 pages.

Philadelphia, Childs & Peterson; Boston, Phillips, Sampson & Co, 1858-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 416 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Spine torn. Ships daily.

Philadelphia, 1858. 416pp. plus plates and advertisements. Portrait. Engraved title. Original cloth. Extremities frayed, scattered foxing. Good. Later edition, first published in 1857. A distinguished naval officer and physician, Kane was stationed in the Orient, Africa, and Europe, served as medical officer with the Grinnell expedition in search of John Franklin, and led the second Grinnell expedition in 1853. This last undertaking failed to discover information regarding Franklin, but gleaned important material concerning Eskimos, the Arctic, and a route to the North Pole. Hill notes the popularity of this work. SABIN 22094. HILL 537. DAB X, pp.256-57.

Childs & Peterson, 1858. Leather binding. . Moderate wear to extremities else very good condition. Author spine label is missing.. B&W Illustrations Marbled page edges. Marbled end papers. Gilt lettering on spine.

Philadelphia, PA: Childs and Peterson. Good condition: edges rubbed, spine slightly frayed, foxing/No Dustjacket. 1858. 8vo., 416 pp. .

New.

Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1858. Hardcover. Fair condition. covers loose & edge worn. 416p., illus. Engr. t.p. & 4 plates.

Philadelphia:: Childs & Peterson,, 1858.. publisher's cloth.. Better than very good; tight and sound with some light foxing to the fore-edge and minor rubbing at extremities.. 8vo,.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Biography of Elisha Kent Kane....

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-08-29. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-08-29. Paperback. Good.

Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson; Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co.. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Reading copy only. Front hinge split. Writing inside. In protective mylar cover. (Physicians, Sailors, Biography)

Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1858. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ,1858 {1857} published in Philadelphia...brown decorative embossed cloth....worn on tips....some spotting on the back...some rubbing on spine ends...interior is clean, unmarked, and tight....toning prevalent in front and back few pages...2 pages of other authors reviews in front, including Washington Irving....

Paperback / softback. New.

Philadelphia: Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 9 inches high. 416 pp. Black blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD; Spine ends worn, Light foxing to frontis portrait & title page text very clean, binding tight. Travel & Exploration RGR

Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1858. Full grey cloth with blind stamped decoration on the covers, gilt lettering on the spine, paper label wityh hand written numbers on the spine, cloth is frayed and chipped at the top & bottom of the spine. Pocket removed from the front free endppaers, previous owner's names, and bookplates underneath, steel plate engraved frontispiece portrait of Elisha Kent Kane, hand written library name on the back of the half-title. Overall in FAIR condition. . Full Cloth. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Philadelphia and Boston: Childs & Peterson and Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1858. 416 pp. b/w engraved frontispiece and title. A beautiful copy, with 2 page prospectus for "Dr. Kane's Great Work" tipped in front and a 2 pages of ads for Childs & Peterson publications at back. Bound in publisher's blindstamped brown cloth. Immaculate.

Philadelpiha: Childs and Peterson, 1858. A good to very good copy with some wear to extremities (larger at head of spine) and intermittent pale spotting. 8vo. 416 pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait and engraved illustrated title page and 4 full page illustrations; 2 pages of publisher's advertisements in front, 2 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. Original embossed cloth. FIRST EDITION. A complete biography of the prolific Arctic explorer and writer. Includes letters from Dr. ayes, Amos Bonsall and Henry Goodfellow. "My aim was not to write a review of Dr. Kanes's writers, but rather a memoir of the man, which might serve to make his reader's personally acquainted with him."

Childs & Peterson. Later Printing. Trade Paperback. Good/None. condition 3/4-leather over marbled boards. Leather and boards rubbed, woron, lather cracked at bottom front edge

Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1858 c1857. First Edition. Very good in blind stamped, black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 8 5/8 by 5 1/2 inches with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine worn down to the edges of the text block, the cloth over the tips of the boards is worn through and there is an early prior owner's book plate fixed to the front past down. The binding remains tight and strong with no weakness to the hinges or joints. Without a dust jacket. 416 pages of text illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Kane, an engraved title page and four engravings each protected with a tissue guard. The publisher's ads of two pages appear immediately after the first free end page and two additional pages of ads appear at the end of the the text. (Sabin 22094)