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GEORGE WASHINGTON DE LONG

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GEORGE WASHINGTON DE LONG

The Voyage of the Jeannette. The Ship and Ice Journals. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1883. 2 volumes, 8° (234 x 140mm). 26 plates and maps, including 2 double plates and one fold-out map, folding track chart in rear pocket of volume I, illustrations in text (hinges cracked). Original brown pictorial cloth, lettered and decorated in black and gilt (slightly rubbed at extremities). Provenance: W.A. Sackite, 1889 (owner's inscription on front free endpaper). FINE COPY.

With: NILS ADOLF ERIK NORDENSKIÖLD (1832-1901). The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe. London: Macmillan, 1881. 2 volumes, 8° (228 x 146mm). Numerous plates, 10 fold-out maps, some coloured, illustrations in text, one-page publisher's advertisement (neat tears to 4 maps, occasional spotting). Original green publisher's cloth. Provenance: Queen's College Oxford library (bookplate and cancel stamp) -- C.W.M. Swithinbank (owner's stamp). With another 6 works in 8 volumes comprising: The Private Journal of Captain G.F. Lyon (London: 1824), Elisha Kane's Arctic Explorations (Philadelphia: 1857, 2 vols.), Lord Dufferin's Letters from High Latitudes (London: 1857), Tyndall's The Glaciers of the Alps (London: 1896), Conway's The First Crossing of Spitsbergen (London and New York: 1897) and Nansen's Farthest North (London: 1898, 2 vols.). (12)
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