Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 292

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(PEARY, ROBERT.) Lewin, Walter Henry. Did Peary Reach The Pole? Folding map. xii, 9-84 pages * The Great North Pole Fraud. Folding map. vii, [1], 192 pages. inscribed by the author to Dr. Charles Reckitt. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, 182x120 and 216x137 mm, original cloth; endpapers foxed or browned, contents otherwise clean; second work in dust jacket, worn along edges and chipped at top and bottom of darkened spine panel. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1911; C. W. Daniel, 1935

Additional Details

first editions. Arctic Bibliography 9996, 9997. with: Hall, Thomas F. Has The North Pole Been Discovered? Volume 1 (of 2). 4 plates; 11 charts; 2 maps, including one in rear cover pocket. 539 pages. 8vo, 193x134 mm, original cloth, spine slightly faded; contents clean. Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1917. First edition. The second volume was published in 1920. Arctic Bibliography 6493.