May 24, 2007 - Sale 2116

Sale 2116 - Lot 65

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
LUIGI AMADEO of SAVOY; Duke of the Abruzzi. On the "Polar Star" in the Arctic Sea. Plates and illustrations after photographs, maps (including 2 folding maps in the rear pocket). 2 volumes. Large 8vo, publisher's cloth, a bit worn; bookplate on the front pastedown (John C. Weaver). New York & London: Dodd Mead & Co, 1903

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first american edition. This 1899-1900 Italian attempt at the North Pole via Franz Josef Land set a new record North, reaching 86º34'N by sledge. Arctic Bibliography 10423 (London, 1903 edition).

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