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Lot 876
Sale 1047 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Lots Open
Jun 17, 2022
Lots Close
Jun 28, 2022
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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$200 -
300
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$125
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[TRAVELS & EXPLORATION] -- [GREELY, Adolphus (1844-1935)]. Group portrait of Greely with members of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. Newburyport, MA: H.P. Macintosh, [1881].
7 3/8 x 4 3/16 in. albumen cabinet photograph on cardstock mount (small losses to edges; creases to lower right, loss to upper right mount). Photographer's imprint printed to mount recto alongside identifications of the subjects. Inscription to verso lists the fates of crew members.
[With:] SCHLEY, Winfield Scott (1839-1911) and James Russell SOLEY (1850-1911). The Rescue of Greely. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1885. 4 (of 5) folding maps. -- GREELY, Adolphus Washington (1844-1935). Three Years of Arctic Service. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. Vol. II only. -- GREELY, Adolphus Washington. Handbook of Alaska: Its Resources, Products, and Attractions. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. -- MITCHELL, William. General Greely: The Story of a Great American. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1936. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, all FIRST EDITION, 8vo, all in publisher's cloth, condition generally good, spines leaned, wear to extremities.


