May 24, 2007 - Sale 2116

Sale 2116 - Lot 49

Price Realized: $ 780
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Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
DANENHOWER, JOHN W. Lieutenant Danenhower's Narrative of the "Jeannette." Map, 2 plates. 8vo, modern boards. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882

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first edition. Danenhower's narrative of the wreck of the Jeannette and the 500 mile journey by foot from Ostrov Genriyetta to the Lena Delta first appeared serially in the New York Herald. Of the 33 original members of the expedition sent in 1879 from San Francisco attempting to reach the North Pole via Bering Strait, only 13 survived. Arctic Bibliography 3643.

From the library of Dr. John M. Levinson, with his bookplate.