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PEARY, ROBERT EDWIN. Complete set of Peary's 3 accounts of his Arctic expeditions in 4 vols., plus his wife's My Arctic Journal.

PEARY, ROBERT EDWIN. Complete set of Peary's 3 accounts of his various Arctic expeditions, in 4 volumes. Profusely illustrated. Various sizes, original cloth. first edition of the first 2 works, first american edition of the third. Arctic Bibliography 13231, 13226, 13230; Books on Ice 5.7, 5.10, 5.7 note. New York, 1898; 1907; 1910

  • Notes: Northward over the "Great Ice": A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891-97. Spines darkened, ends worn. 2 volumes. 1898 * Nearest the Pole: A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S. S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906. 1907 * The North Pole, Its Discovery in 1909 under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club, by Robert E. Peary. Spine faded, with small stains. 1910.
    with:
    Diebitsch-Peary, Josephine. My Arctic Journal: A Year Among the Ice-Fields and Eskimos. 8vo, original cloth, spine ends chipped, hinges cracked. New York, 1894. First published the previous year. Arctic Bibliography 13221; Books on Ice 5.9 (both citing the original edition).
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