NMLP P-036025 · 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

Copies were issued in blind-stamped, gilt-lettered publisher's cloth recorded in more than one contemporary color, both brown and green cloth being documented, and dealers cite the large folding map's labeling of the Arctic waters as 'Open Sea' rather than 'Kane's Sea' as a mark of an early printing of the map

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-036025 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-036025, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).