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(POLARIS EXPEDITION.) Narrative of the North Polar Expedition. Edited by C. H. Davis. Maps and plates. Large, thick 8vo, publisher's cloth gilt, backstrip faded and discolored, worn at extremities; frontispiece portrait detached. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1876
first edition. This is the official report on the disastrous 1871-73 Polaris expedition and includes the determination that Charles Francis Hall had died of natural causes. More recent scientific research suggests, however, that he was murdered by arsenic poisoning. Arctic Bibliography 18382.
From the library of Dr. John M. Levinson, with his bookplate.
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