May 24, 2007 - Sale 2116

Sale 2116 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 150
MELVILLE, GEORGE W. In the Lena Delta. A Narrative of the Search for Lieut.-Commander DeLong and his Companions. Maps and plates. 8vo, publisher's cloth, a bit soiled and stained, worn; text age toned. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885

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first edition. Melville served as the Chief Engineer on the Jeannette. His whaleboat party which landed on Lena Delta was the first to be rescued, but he remained in the region to search for survivors. Arctic Bibliography 11239.
with--Perry, Richard. The Jeannette. Thompsonville, 1882 Ellsberg, Edward. Hell on Ice. New York, 1938 Hoeling, A. A. The Jeannette Expedition. London, 1967.

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