Hardcover. 4to (11.75" x 9"), black cloth, gilt title. Frontis. port., 75 pp., [3] pp. maps, numerous b&w plates. An account of the 1884 Greely Relief expedition, including the outfitting of the three ships, Bear, Thetic and Alert, correspondence, and full page engravings of islands, glaciers, sailing fleet, natives, and the rescue. CONDITION: One four leaf section detached, otherwise intact and good, rubbed, small loss of cloth to front cover, light toning on text pp., engravings clean and very appealing.

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Title: Report of Winfield S. Schley, Commander, U. S. Navy, Commanding Greely Relief Expedition of 1884. [Cover Title: Greely Relief Expedition. 1884. Schley]
Publisher: Washington; Government Printing Office, 1887.; N.Y.: Moss Eng. Co
Binding: Hardcover

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James Arsenault & Company was established in 1988. Our stock includes fine and rare books in a variety of fields, including Americana & Early American Imprints, Trade Catalogs, Book Arts & Printing History, Early Photography, Plate Books, Literary First Editions, and Signed & Inscribed Books, as well as Autographs & Manuscripts, Maps, Prints, Photographs and Ephemera. We are members in good standing of the ABAA and have exhibited for many years at numerous antiquarian book fairs in the northeast and in California.

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