Mar 22, 2022 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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PEARY, ROBERT E.
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. Two volumes, first edition. Publisher's pictorial blue cloth, top edge gilt. 9 x 6 1/2 inches; volume 1: [4], xv-lxxx, 521 pp., volume 2: xiv, 625 pp., frontispieces in each volume and illustrations throughout after photographs, maps, folding map. Light wear, spines faded, faint reddish stain and indentation to front board of volume 2, front hinges cracked in both volumes but bindings are sound, contents bright.
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PEARY, ROBERT E.
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. Two volumes, first edition. Publisher's pictorial blue cloth, top edge gilt. 9 x 6 1/2 inches; volume 1: [4], xv-lxxx, 521 pp., volume 2: xiv, 625 pp., frontispieces in each volume and illustrations throughout after photographs, maps, folding map. Light wear, spines faded, faint reddish stain and indentation to front board of volume 2, front hinges cracked in both volumes but bindings are sound, contents bright.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Mar 22, 2022
