Nearest the pole. A narrative of the polar expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt 1905-1906

by Robert E. Peary

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First edition

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1907. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xx, 411, 1 , 2 folding maps printed in color at the back, color frontispiece and 90 illustrations mostly from photographs on rectos and versos of 32 plates; some light rubbing, else a near fine copy in original pictorial green cloth gilt, t.e.g. Contains an account of the Roosevelt's passage to Cape Sheridan, Ellesmere Island, the march on the ice of the Arctic Basin to 87 degrees, 6

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