May 24, 2007 - Sale 2116

Sale 2116 - Lot 62

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
JACKSON, FREDERICK GEORGE. The Great Frozen Land. Folding maps, illustrations after photographs. 8vo, publisher's cloth gilt, minor wear and blistering, a few bumps; foxing. With a Presentation Copy blindstamp on the title. Publisher's ads in the rear. London and New York: MacMillan and Co., 1895

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first edition. "In the fall of 1893 the author went to Vaygach Island, explored it and spent a year living and traveling among the Samoyeds using reindeer and ponies for sledge hauls . . . This journey was undertaken to learn winter travel methods and gather information from the natives in preparations for the author's Franz Josef Land expedition begun later in the year 1894"--Arctic Bibliography 7940.

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