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JEANETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION
Albert OPERTI (artist). "Found." "Finding the remains of De Long and Dr. Ambler on the Lena Delta." The Jeanette Expedition, 1879. New York: 1889 (or later).
Proof wood-engraving on india paper (image:212 x 314mm., sheet: 285 x 399mm) by A.Negri after Albert Operti, SIGNED IN PENCIL BY OPERTI AND INK BY GEORGE WALLACE MELVILLE. (Edges of sheet neatly reinforced.) Window-mounted.
[And:]
Three other similar prints (A.OPERTI. A duplicate of the catalogued print; A. OPERTI. An unidentified Artic scene: a two-masted vessel the 'Advance' ice-bound, crew members in the foreground with dogs and a sled apparently about to abandon the ship. New York: [n.d.]. Proof wood-engraving on india paper, signed by Operti and J. Ball Wilson; James FAGAN. Seal-hunting. [n.d.]. Engraving, signed in pencil by Fagan).
See note to previous lot.
One illustrated. (4)
Albert OPERTI (artist). "Found." "Finding the remains of De Long and Dr. Ambler on the Lena Delta." The Jeanette Expedition, 1879. New York: 1889 (or later).
Proof wood-engraving on india paper (image:212 x 314mm., sheet: 285 x 399mm) by A.Negri after Albert Operti, SIGNED IN PENCIL BY OPERTI AND INK BY GEORGE WALLACE MELVILLE. (Edges of sheet neatly reinforced.) Window-mounted.
[And:]
Three other similar prints (A.OPERTI. A duplicate of the catalogued print; A. OPERTI. An unidentified Artic scene: a two-masted vessel the 'Advance' ice-bound, crew members in the foreground with dogs and a sled apparently about to abandon the ship. New York: [n.d.]. Proof wood-engraving on india paper, signed by Operti and J. Ball Wilson; James FAGAN. Seal-hunting. [n.d.]. Engraving, signed in pencil by Fagan).
See note to previous lot.
One illustrated. (4)