Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 173

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(ARCTIC EXPLORATION.) Group of 7 volumes. Various sizes, original cloth; contents clean except as noted; last in dust jacket. first english trade edition of Peary, first editions of the rest. Vp, 1897-1927

Additional Details

Hoppin. A Diary kept while with the Peary Arctic Expedition of 1896. Second issue, with added list of errata. Stains on covers; foxing at beginning and end. [New Haven, 1897].

Jackson. A Thousand Days in the Arctic. New York, 1899.

Peary. The North Pole. Scattered foxing of text, plates clean, pencil signature and partial browning on title, free endpapers browned. London, 1910.

Cook. My Attainment of the Pole. Spine worn. New York, 1911.

Henson. A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. Spine slightly darkened with lettering retraced in white ink. New York, (1912).

Balch. The North Pole and Bradley Land. Philadelphia, 1913. inscribed: "Hubert Hunt Esq. with the compliments of the author April 1913."

Amundsen & Ellsworth. First Crossing of the Polar Sea. Dust jacket flap corners clipped, 2 short clean tears repaired on verso. New York, 1927.