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Lot 117
Sale 625 - Adventure & Exploration Library of Steve Fossett
Mar 15, 2019
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PEARY, Robert Edwin (1856-1920). 3 works, comprising:
Northward Over the "Great Ice": A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891-1897. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1898. 2 volumes, 8vo. Folding route map, numerous portraits, plates, and illustrations. -- Nearest the Pole: A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. "Roosevelt" 1905-1906. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1907. 8vo. Frontispiece, 2 color-printed folding maps, numerous half-tones. -- PEARY. The North Pole. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910. 8vo. Color-printed folding map, numerous photographic plates (a few photogravure). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. -- Together, 3 works in 4 volumes, FIRST EDITIONS except where indicated, all in original publisher's cloth, condition generally good.
