Title: Nearest The Pole: A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906 Author: Peary, R[obert] E. Place: New York Publisher: Doubleday, Page Date: 1907 Description: xx, 411 pp. Illustrated with numerous photo plates; color frontispiece from a painting by Albert Operti; 2 folding maps. 10¼x6¾, original green cloth with gilt cover vignette, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition. The book is described in the Arctic Bibliography: "Contains an account of the Roosevelt's passage to Cape Sheridan, Ellesmere Island; the march on the ice of the Arctic Basin to 87o06'N. and return via the northwest coast of Greenland; a sledge journey along the northern coast of Ellesmere Island (Grant Land), and the return of the ship through Robeson Channel-Smith Sound...," etc. Arctic Bib. 13226. Lot Amendments Condition: Faint, hardly noticable staining to spine and adjacent covers with some bubbling to cloth, small hole in spine strip; some offsetting to free endpapers, bookplate, still a very good, quite presentable copy. Item number: 179028
Title: Nearest The Pole: A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906 Author: Peary, R[obert] E. Place: New York Publisher: Doubleday, Page Date: 1907 Description: xx, 411 pp. Illustrated with numerous photo plates; color frontispiece from a painting by Albert Operti; 2 folding maps. 10¼x6¾, original green cloth with gilt cover vignette, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition. The book is described in the Arctic Bibliography: "Contains an account of the Roosevelt's passage to Cape Sheridan, Ellesmere Island; the march on the ice of the Arctic Basin to 87o06'N. and return via the northwest coast of Greenland; a sledge journey along the northern coast of Ellesmere Island (Grant Land), and the return of the ship through Robeson Channel-Smith Sound...," etc. Arctic Bib. 13226. Lot Amendments Condition: Faint, hardly noticable staining to spine and adjacent covers with some bubbling to cloth, small hole in spine strip; some offsetting to free endpapers, bookplate, still a very good, quite presentable copy. Item number: 179028
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