Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2433Location: BostonDate / Time: November 16, 2008 11:00AM
Description:
Peary, Robert Edwin (1856-1920),Five Titles in Six Volumes,The North Pole, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910; Secrets of Polar Travel, New York: The Century Co., 1917; Nearest the Pole, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907; Northward over the "Great Ice", New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1848, in two volumes, (spines sunfaded); sold together with Diebitsch-Peary, Josephine (1863-1955),My Arctic Journal, New York and Philadelphia: The Contemporary Publishing Company, 1893, signed to frontis, all pictorial cloth, 8vo, (wear, scattered soiling, toning, bumping and chipping),(7 items total).
Estimate $300-500