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Lot 111
Sale 800 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
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Nov 12, 2020
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HOPPIN, Benjamin (1851-1923). A Diary kept while with the Peary Arctic Expedition of 1896. [New Haven?: n.p., 1897].
8vo. Map frontispiece, one plate. Publisher's blue cloth gilt. Provenance: Edward T. Owen (presentation inscription dated 29 June 1897).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HOPPIN: "For Prof. Edward T. Owen ’72 from B. Hoppin ’72 Baddock, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. For June 29th 1897." Hoppin, Peary's mineralogist, provides a first-hand account of the voyage of the Hope. RARE. Arctic Bib. 7401.