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Lot 142
Sale 625 - Adventure & Exploration Library of Steve Fossett
Mar 15, 2019
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Lot Description
[ARCTIC EXPLORATION]. A group of 5 works, comprising:
FIALA, Anthony (1869-1950). Fighting the Polar Ice. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1907. 8vo. Folding color map, numerous plates (most in color). Second edition, PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED BY FIALA to Duane Morrison, 1907, on endpaper (faded); with a TYPED LETTER SIGNED BY FIALA, 19 November 1938, to W. H. Jackson laid in. -- GILDER, William H. (1838-1900). Ice-Pack and Tundra. An Account of the Search for the Jeannette and a Sledge Journey through Siberia. London: Sampson Low, 1883. 8vo. 3 maps (1 folding), numerous wood-engravings. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. -- LANMAN, Charles (1819-1895). Farthest North; or, The Life and Explorations of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic Expedition. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1885. 8vo. 4 engraved plates, color-printed folding route map. FIRST EDITION. -- TREVOR-BATTYE, Aubyn (1855-1922). Ice-Bound on Kolguev. London: Constable, 1895. 8vo. Frontispiece, 3 colour-printed folding maps, numerous plates in-text illustrations. FIRST EDITION. -- WORSLEY, Frank Arthur (1872-1943). Under Sail in the Frozen North. Philadelphia: David Mackay Co., 1927. 8vo. Folding route map, 2 charts, numerous plates. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. -- All in original publisher's cloth except where indicated, condition generally good.
