The Voyage of the Jeannette. The Ship and Ice Journals of George W. De Long, Lieutenant-Commander U.S.N. and Commander of the Polar Expedition of 1879-1881

by Arctic, George W. De Long, ed Emma De

$500 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884. First Edition. First printing. Two large octavo volumes 24cm . Publisher's pictorial brown pebbled cloth; xii, 1 -440; xxii, 441 -911pp. Volume I with folding map in rear pocket; inserted folding circumpolar map; steel-engraved frontispiece and seven unnumbered leaves of plates on wood and steel ; Volume Il with steel-engraved frontispiece, seven inserted leaves

• Printing: first

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