May 24, 2007 - Sale 2116

Sale 2116 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 150
LANMAN, CHARLES. Farthest North: or, The Life and Explorations of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic Expedition. Folding map, 5 plates. 12mo, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, short tears at the head and tail of the backstrip, small split along the rear joint, minor rubbing at the extremities; hinges starting. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885

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first edition. Lockwood would reach a record 83º24'N on a sledge expedition from Fort Conger to the northwest coast of Greenland, but would be one of the Greely party to die of starvation at Cape Sabine. Arctic Bibliography 9669.

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