Captain Charles Francis Hall - Life with the Esquimaux : a narrative of arctic experience in search of survivors of Sir John - 1865

Life with the Esquimaux : a narrative of arctic experience in search of survivors of Sir John Franklin's expedition by Captain Charles Francis Hall
with maps, illustrations and one hundred woodcuts

London: Sampson Low, Son and Marston 1865

A scarce first edition, with the original folding map to pocket at rear.

8vo, bound in original publishers cloth, gilt lettered and decorated. Original plain endpapers. The contents are complete in x, 547, 16pp.

Condition: Binding is holding firmly and in good condition, rubbed and marked to surfaces, scuffed to hinges, sunned to spines/boards, split to hinges, spine pulling from binding, bumping and abrasion to extremities/corners and spine ends. Contents are holding firmly although lower endpaper joint cracked and the mull exposed, generally in good condition if a little toned, with some sporadic light foxing, some grubbiness, occasional creases to corners and bumping to foredges, upper and lower fe's browned. Map browned and with some closed tears. Ink ownership and blind tamp to fe. Please see images for further condition.