INCLUDES PEARY'S OWN COPY OF A U.S. COAST SURVEY PEARY, ROBERT E. Two items, each dated and Signed: United States Coast Survey . . . 1875. Peary's copy * Signature, as a student. The book, "R.E. Peary," on the title-page. 22 folding maps and 17 plates. 4to, rebound in calf, spine labels with gilt titling, recent repairs to joints, moderate wear; recent bookplate on front pastedown, faint soiling to preliminaries, some maps with short closed separations at folds. The signature, "R'ert Peary / Brunswick / ME / '77," on leaf removed from a book. 9 1/4x6 inches; faint scattered foxing, faint toning at edges, few pin holes along left edge. Washington, 1875; inscriptions: Np, 29 September 1879; Brunswick, 1877
With--Three items, unsigned: Peary. "Moving on the North Pole." Excised from March 1899 issue of McClure's Magazine. 5 leaves. 8vo. [New York: S.S. McClure], 1890 • Peary. The North Pole. Later edition. 4to, publisher's cloth. New York: Stokes, 1910 • Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor. "The Arctic Region: Showing Explorations Towards the North Pole." Color folding map. 18 1/2x18 1/2 inches. Buffalo: Northrup, 1910.
