Feb 04, 2016 - Sale 2404

Sale 2404 - Lot 78

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(ARCTIC.) Group of 6 books on the Jeannette and Greely expeditions. 8 volumes. 8vo, publisher's cloth, various conditions; Edinger bookplates. Vp, 1882-85 and 1940
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DeLong. The Voyage of the Jeannette: the Ship and Ice Journals of . . . Commander of the Polar Expedition of 1879-1881. 2 volumes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884 Greely, Adolphus W. Three Years of Arctic Service, an Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. 2 volumes. Clipped Greely autograph taped to front free endpaper. New York, 1885 James. Six Came Back: The Arctic Adventure of David L. Brainard. Memoir of a Greely survivor. In dust jacket. Indianapolis, IN, 1940 Melville. In the Lena Delta: a Narrative of the Search for Lieut.-Commander DeLong and His Companions Followed by An Account of the Greely Relief Expedition. Boston, 1885 Newcomb. Our Lost Explorers: the Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition. Hartford, CT, 1882 Schley and Soley. The Rescue of Greely. New York, 1885.