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Title: On the "Polar Star" in the Arctic Sea Author: Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi Place: London Publisher: Hutchinson & Co. Date: 1903 Description: 2 volumes. xvi, 346, xvii-xxii; viii, [347]-702, ix-xii pp. Translated by William Le Queux. Profusely illustrated from photographs incl. 16 plates in photogravure; 2 folding panoramas from drawings; 5 maps, 2 of them folding & loose in rear endpaper pocket. 9¾x7¼, original black cloth with gilt cover vignettes, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. First English Edition. Translation of La "Stella Polare" nel mare Articto, 1899-1900. "With nineteen men, the Duke of Abruzzi sailed in the steam brigatine Stella Polare, June 1899, to Archangel, and thence across Barents Sea to Rudolph Island, Franz Josef Land, to winter in Teplitz Bay, and to undertake marches on the ice of the Arctic Basin in attempts to reach the North Pole... The leader's narrative of the expedition... includes detailed notes on ice conditions...equipment, food and dogs, weather, polar wildlife and nature..." - Arctic Bib. 10423. Formerly in the Kellogg Hubbard Library, Montpelier, Vermont, with bookplates, traces from removed spine labels, adhesion remnants to rear pastedowns, blindstamps to title-pages and a few other places. Lot Amendments Condition: Light shelf wear, shaken a bit; tissue guards darkened, else very good. Item number: 179089