(Franklin, Sir John) — James Parsons | Exceptionally rare; only two other copies recorded in Rare Book Hub

(Franklin, John, Sir) — James Parsons

Reflections on the Mysterious Fate of Sir John Franklin. London: J. F. Hope, 1857

8vo (190 x 115 mm). Folding engraved map, terminal errata leaf. Publisher’s blind-embossed blue cloth gilt, yellow-coated endpapers. Blue cloth slipcase.

First edition. Exceptionally rare: only two other copies are recorded in Rare Book Hub, the George Bird Grinnell copy in 1952 at Parke-Bernet and a copy sold at Bangs, New York, in 1893.

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Sabin 58887

PROVENANCE:

G.T. Waldo Sibthorp M.P. (1815–1861; signature on front free endpaper) — Terence R. Leach, Dunholme (bookplate) — Franklin Brooke-Hitching (penciled initials on front free endpaper; his sale, Part III, Sotheby's London, 19 March 2015, lot 1001)