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Lot 283A
Sale 625 - Adventure & Exploration Library of Steve Fossett
Mar 15, 2019
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Lot Description
[CANADA]. A group of 6 works, comprising:
PIKE, Warburton M. (1816-1915). The Barren Ground of Northern Canada. London: Macmillan, 1892. 8vo. 2 color-printed folding maps. (One map neatly repaired at fold.) -- SOMERSET, H. Somers. The Land of the Muskeg. London: William Heinemann, 1895. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait, 4 maps (one folding), numerous half-tones. -- PIKE, Warburton M. (1816-1915). Through the Subarctic Forest. A Record of a Canoe Journey from Fort Wrangel to the Pelly Lakes and down the Yukon River to the Behring Sea. London: Edward Arnold, 1896. 8vo. 2 folding maps, numerous engraved plates. -- PEARY, Robert E. (1856-1920). 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. Color frontispiece, 2 color-printed folding route maps, numerous half-tones. -- MASON, Winfield Scott. The Frozen Northland. Life with the Eskimo in his Own Country. Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham, 1910. 8vo. 2 maps, 8 photo plates. -- DOUGLAS, George M. Lands Forlorn. A Story of an Expedition to Hearnes Coppermine River. New York: The Knickerbocker Press for G.P. Putnams, 1914. 8vo. Color frontispiece portrait, 2 color-printed folding maps, numerous half-tones. [Laid in:] Printed calling card of James Douglas, author of the Introduction. -- All FIRST EDITIONS, all in original publishers cloth, condition generally good.
