Stray Leaves from An Arctic Journal

The Volume is in Very Condition, bound in gilt ruled calf, with the spine divided into six compartment by five gilt & raised bands, with gilt rolled board edges and marbled leaf edges. The binding has been recently re-backed retaining the original spine. Externally the boards have general scuffing around the edges, with a stain to the lower inside corner of the boards. Internally the leaves are generally clean and well margined, with some toning on initial leaves, with some very occasional fox marks otherwise.

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Of Sherard Osborn

Sherard Osborn, an up and coming Lieutenant, took a prominent part in 1849 in advocating a new search expedition for Sir John Franklin, and in 1850 was appointed to  command the steam-tender Pioneer in the Arctic expedition under Horatio Thomas Austin. During the voyage he performed a remarkable sledge-journey to the western extremity of Prince of Wales Island. He published an account of this voyage, entitled Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal in 1852, and was promoted to the rank of commander shortly afterwards. The idea of a passage through the Canadian arctic from the Atlantic to the Pacific was one of the great projects of the nineteenth century. Equally important at the time was the fate of the Franklin expedition, which would not be solved until the 21st Century.