Greely and his rescuers, 4 vol.
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GREELY AND HIS RESCUERS (4). GREELY, ADOLPHUS. Three Years of Arctic Service. An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84 and the Attainment of the Farthest North. With nearly one hundred illustrations made from photographs taken by the Party, with the official maps and charts. I-II. New York, Charles Scribner´s Sons, 1886.
8vo. 24 x 18 cm. xxvi, 428, xii, (1, 1 blank), 444 pp. Illustrated with maps and plates. Large (c. 770 x 1010 mm) folded map in rear board pocket of volume II. Publisher´s decorated cloth. Slight wear. Library bookplates from Miss Porter´s School, Farmington, Connecticut.
2 volumes. With extra material, contemporary newspaper clippings, partly fragmentary and mended with tape.
SCHLEY, WINFIELD SCOTT & SOLEY, JAMES RUSSELL. The Rescue of Greely. Illustrated from Maps and Photographs of the Relief Expedition. New York, Charles Scribner´s Sons, 1885.
8vo. 21 x 14,5 cm. vi, (2), 277 pp. Illustrated. With woodcut plates and 4 folding charts (out of 5, 1, Official chart, missing).
Publisher´s cloth with gilt titles on spine and front board.
LAMAN, CHARLES. Farthest North, or, The Life and Explorations of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic Expedition. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1885.
8vo. 18 x 12,5 cm. (2), 333 pp. With plates and 1 folding map. Publisher´s decorated green cloth. Small nick in head of spine, otherwise fine copy.
4 volumes in all. From the collection of Bengt Olof Kritz and with his exlibris.
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Auktionsnummer:
438909
Datum:
2017-02-15