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SCHLEY, WINFIELD S. Report of Winfield S. Schley, Commander, U.S. Navy, Commanding Greely Relief Expedition of 1884. Maps and plates. 4to, publisher's cloth, small chips and tears to the backstrip, cup rings on the front cover; front hinge cracked; free endpaper detached, early owner's signature on the title page (E. F. Frost) and a compliments overslip from the Secretary of the Navy mounted at the head of the title. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887
first edition. The third attempt to send relief to Greely turned out to be a rescue operation. Schley, aboard the USS Thetis and Willaim Hensley Emory aboard the USS Bear found Greely and 6 other survivors on the verge of starvation at Cape Sabine in June 1884. Arctic Bibliography 18385. with--Brainard, David. Six Came Back. Indianapolis, 1966.
From the library of Dr. John M. Levinson, with his bookplate.
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