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Published by John E. Potter & Co, Philadelphia, PA, 1894
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. 8vo. 718 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover binding, red cloth, green and black titles and pictorial decoration cover and spine, very good condition. (100320). A graphic account of the heroic efforts of intrepid and daring travelers and explorers in the land of the midnight sun : an impressive recital of adventures encountered by the men who have penetrated nature's most mysterious realm and gauged her mighty secrets.
Published by John E. Potter, Philadelphia, 1894
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Folding map with occasional full-page b&w illustrations. (illustrator). First Thus. 8vo. Pp. 718. Folding map, in color, bound in after copyright page. Includes a 2pp. list of "technical terms" germane to ice navigation. With occasional and full-page b&w illustrations. Decorated endpapers. Blue cloth with a stunning stamped scene of a harpooner ready to strike an angry walrus, in silver and black. Slightly shaken, with faint edgewear; previous owner name in ink on front pastedown; Gift note in pencil on blank preliminary page; wear to edges of spine. Please see photos. Scarce. Scarce. A seemingly thorough comprehensive compendium of Arctic exploration from the Russians and Frobisher through to Greely.