The polar explorers who searched for fellow explorer Franklin

A single-owner collection focusing on the polar regions was a notable feature of the travel section of the October 4 sale held by Dominic Winter (19.5% buyer’s premium). It included, at a 10-times estimate £3000, the posthumously published Memoirs of Lieutenant Joseph Rene Bellot.

Issued in two blind-stamped and gilt decorated volumes in 1855, the work includes Bellot’s own jou…

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