Remarks on Polar Expedition

by George W. Melville, Commodore

$450 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Separately-issued offprint from the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. XXXVI, No. 156. 454 -461 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Covers browned and separate, edges chipping, else a very good copy. WH/9/86/6. Item #20553 Melville's Remarks, given in response to Nansen's Fram Expedition, largely relates his own experience of having drifted in the “Jeannette”

• Binding: Wrappers

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