5th Jun, 2024 10:00
The Books Auction
Cresswell (Samuel Gurney - A Series of Eight Sketches in Colour of the Voyages of H.M.S. Investigator, the Discovery of the North-West Passage
Cresswell (Samuel Gurney (1827-1867), A Series of Eight Sketches in Colour (together with a Coloured Map of the Route) By Lieut. S. Gurney Cresswell, of the Voyages of H.M.S. Investigator, (Captain M'Clure) during the Discovery of the North-West Passage. London: Day and Son, 1854.
Folio (620 x 446mm), eight chromolithographed plates and one chart, interleaved, unbound but in original fly-cover with printed title page, and within an associated folio, likely to be period.
Note: extensive foxing throughout, please inspect images.
RARE SPECTACULAR VIEWS OF THE ENTRAPMENT AND ABANDONMENT OF H.M.S. INVESTIGATOR IN THE ARCTIC ICE; FIRST EDITION. The McClure Arctic Expedition of 1850, among numerous British search efforts to determine the fate of Franklin's lost expedition, is distinguished as the voyage during which Robert McClure became the first person to confirm and transit the Northwest Passage by a combination of sea travel and sledging. McClure and his crew spent three years locked in the pack ice aboard the HMS Investigator before abandoning it and making their escape across the ice. Rescued by the HMS Resolute, which was itself later lost to the ice, McClure returned to England in 1854, where he was knighted and rewarded for completing the passage, after, of course, being acquitted of his court martial which was standard procedure for a captain who had lost a ship. In July 2010, Canadian archeologists looking for the HMS Investigator found it fifteen minutes after they started a sonar scan of Banks Island, Mercy Bay, Northwest Territories.
Titles of chromolithographs
First Discovery of Land by H.M.S. Investigator. September 6th 1850;
Bold Headland on Baring Island;
H.M.S. Investigator in the Pack. October 8th 1850;
Critical Position of H.M.S. Investigator on the North-Coast of Baring Island. August 20th 1851;
H.M.S. Investigator Running through a Narrow Channel in a Snow Storm... September 23rd 1851;
Melville Island From Banks Land;
Sledge-Party... in Mercy Bay, Under Command of Lieutenant Gurney Cresswell 15 April 1853;
Sledging Over Hummocky Ice. April 1853;
plus Explanation of Chart.
Sold for £13,000
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Auction: The Books Auction, 5th Jun, 2024
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