May 24, 2007 - Sale 2116

Sale 2116 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
MARKHAM, ALBERT H. A Polar Reconnaissance Being the Voyage of the "Isbjörn" to Novaya Zemlya in 1879. 2 folding maps, plates. 8vo, publisher's cloth, minor rubbing; foxing to the folding maps and along the fore edge. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881

Additional Details

first edition. A nice copy of a scarce book recounting the private expedition commanded by Sir Henry Gore-Booth to the Kara Sea. Arctic Bibliography 10931.

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