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HAYES, ISAAC ISRAEL. The Open Polar Sea: A Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole in the Schooner "United States." Map, 9 plates. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, minor soiling and spotting to the rear cover; minor age toning to the text. Philadelphia: David McKay, (1885)
A later edition of the narrative of Hayes's 1860-61 expedition attempting to prove that an open polar sea existed north of Ellesmere Island through Kennedy Channel. The work was republished here as a popular edition due to the renewed interest in the Pole following Adolphus Greely's 1881-84 expedition. Arctic Bibliography 6796 (note).
From the library of Dr. John M. Levinson, with his bookplate.
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