11-16-200811-16-2008
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2433Boston
November 16, 2008 11:00 AMCalender
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(Arctic Exploration),Four Titles in Five Volumes

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Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2433Location: BostonDate / Time: November 16, 2008 11:00AM

Description:

(Arctic Exploration),Four Titles in Five Volumes, Greely, Adolphus W., (1844-1935),three titles: Three Years of Arctic Service, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886, in two volumes, with folding map, gilt pictorial cloth, (front hinges cracked, age typical tears to head and foot); The Polar Regions in the Twentieth Century, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1928, with folding map, cloth; A Handbook of Polar Discoveries, [Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1909], fourth edition, possibly the author's edited volume in anticipation of a fifth edition, cloth, (heavy marginalia, lacking title page); Schley and Soley, Rescue of Greely, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1885, with folding map (tears),cloth, (tears to head and foot); all 8vo, (minor bumping and chipping, minor wear and toning).
Estimate $300-400

Keywords

Greely, Charles Scribner, Arctic Service