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Lot 133
Sale 625 - Adventure & Exploration Library of Steve Fossett
Mar 15, 2019
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[ARCTIC EXPLORATION - GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN]. A group of 3 works, comprising:
KOLDEWEY, Karl (1837-1908). The German Arctic Expedition of 1869-70, and Narrative of the Wreck of the Hansa in the Ice. London: Sampson Low, 1874. 8vo. Chromolithographic frontispiece, 2 color-printed folding maps, numerous plates and illustrations. -- PAYER, Julius (1842-1915). New Lands Within the Arctic Circle. Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship Tegetthoff in the Years 1872-1874. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. 2 volumes, 8vo. Chromolithographic frontispiece, 2 double-page route maps, numerous plates and in-text illustrations. -- PAYER, Julius (1842-1915). New Lands Within the Arctic Circle. Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship Tegetthof in the Years 1872-1874. New York: D. Appleton, 1877. 8vo. Chromolithographic frontispiece, 2 double-page route maps, and numerous full-page or in-text wood-engravings. Later edition, first in Vienna and London in 1876. -- Together, 3 works in 4 volumes, FIRST EDITIONS in English except where indicated, all in original publisher's cloth, condition generally good.
