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DAVIS, CHARLES HENRY. Narrative of the North Polar Expedition. U.S. Ship Polaris, Captain Charles Francis Hall commanding. 1876
DAVIS, CHARLES HENRY. Narrative of the North Polar Expedition. U.S. Ship Polaris, Captain Charles Francis Hall commanding. 2 steel- and 35 wood-engraved plates; 2 photolithographs; 6 maps. Half-title. 4to, original gilt-pictorial red cloth, spine slightly faded and soiled; hinges cracked. Washington, D.C., 1876
- Notes: first edition of the official account of the first American attempt on the North Pole, the disastrous 1871-73 Polaris expedition led by Hall, who died early on of what was later found to be arsenic poisoning, possibly administered by the ship''s surgeon. Arctic Bibliography 18382; see Books on Ice 4.4-4.5.
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