On the "Polar Star" In The Arctic Sea. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1903. 2 volumes. Large 8vo (245 x 187 mm). xvi, 346, [xvii]-xxii; viii, [347]-702, [ix]-xii pp. Half-titles. Titles in red & black. 16 photogravure plates, 2 folding panoramas, 5 colored maps (2 folding), profusely illustrated in text. Original pictorially gilt stamped green cloth, edged uncut. WITH: Another copy. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1903. Original green cloth, spine gilt-lettered. Recased with new endpapers. Together, 4 volumes. Attractive copies. FIRST ENGLISH AND FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS of Abruzzi's account of the 1899-1900 Italian expedition to the Arctic. Traveling on the Stella Polare from Archangel, the expedition sailed across the Barents Sea to Rudolph Island and Franz Joseph Land. The work includes an account, written by Umberto Cagni, of the sledge party's unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole and their journey to 83° 16'. National Maritime Museum I, 1001.
On the "Polar Star" In The Arctic Sea. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1903. 2 volumes. Large 8vo (245 x 187 mm). xvi, 346, [xvii]-xxii; viii, [347]-702, [ix]-xii pp. Half-titles. Titles in red & black. 16 photogravure plates, 2 folding panoramas, 5 colored maps (2 folding), profusely illustrated in text. Original pictorially gilt stamped green cloth, edged uncut. WITH: Another copy. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1903. Original green cloth, spine gilt-lettered. Recased with new endpapers. Together, 4 volumes. Attractive copies. FIRST ENGLISH AND FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS of Abruzzi's account of the 1899-1900 Italian expedition to the Arctic. Traveling on the Stella Polare from Archangel, the expedition sailed across the Barents Sea to Rudolph Island and Franz Joseph Land. The work includes an account, written by Umberto Cagni, of the sledge party's unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole and their journey to 83° 16'. National Maritime Museum I, 1001.
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