NMLP P-036023 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

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

Elisha Kent Kane · Childs & Peterson (Philadelphia) · 1856

The true first edition was issued in two octavo volumes of 464 and 467 pages, imprinted Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson (with Boston, New York, and Cincinnati distributing houses also named on the title page), and illustrated overall with upwards of three hundred wood engravings drawn from Kane's own expedition sketches

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-036023 for "Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55" by Elisha Kent Kane (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036023, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).