Proceedings of the "Proteus" Court of Inquiry on the Greely Relief Expedition of 1883. - 48th Congress, 1st Session.

Association copy: Bearing the private library label of Lawrence Gould, Geologist and second in command of Admiral Richard Byrd’s South Polar Expedition. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1884. 8vo. [i],310,265p., with 6 folding maps, 7 photographic illustrations on 4 plates, gilt spine title, ruled embossed boards in original publisher’s olive cloth. Appendix (on the Lady Franklin Bay expedition), proceedings and Index to appendix, This copy in Very Good and complete condition: Internally Near Fine with no foxing or tears. Exterior with edge of hinge starting to split. Rare – especially so in its original cloth binding. Arctic Bibliography 18416. The “Proteus” and “Yantie” under Army and Navy command respectively made up the relief expedition of 1883. The “Proteus” was lost in Kane Basin, and the instructions issued for the undertaking were not altogether followed. These proceedings of the inquiry show the organization, outfitting and general conduct of the expedition, with voluminous documentation in the large Appendix, covering letters, instructions, and journals relating to the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition commanded by Lt. Adolphus Greely.…