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ROALD ENGELBREGT GRAVNING AMUNDSEN (1872-1928) AND LINCOLN ELLSWORTH (1880-1951)
Our Polar Flight. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925. 8° (224 x 161mm). Original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt (extremities very lightly rubbed). Provenance: Gustav Amundsen (brother of Roald Amundsen, WITH PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM LINCOLN ELLSWORTH 'To my dear friends, Captain and Mrs Malfred Amundsen, With the kindest regards of Lincoln Ellsworth. 7 March 1926.'), and thence by descent to the present owner;
Roald AMUNDSEN. Sydpolen. Den Norske Sydpolsfaerd med Fram 1910-1912. Kristiania: Jacob Dybwads, 1912. 2 volumes, 4° (225 x 153mm). Original blue cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt, marbled edges (extremities lightly rubbed, spines lightly stained). Provenance: Gustav Amundsen (WITH AMUNDSEN'S PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION in Norwegian 'Gustav from Roald. 24.12.14.' on front free endpaper), and thence by descent to the present owner;
[with:] PRESENTATION COPIES of Amundsen's Mitt Liv som Polarforsker (Oslo, 1927) and Amundsen and Ellsworth's Den forste Flukt over Polhavet (Oslo, 1926), both inscribed to 'Malfred and Gustav from Roald'. (5)
Our Polar Flight. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925. 8° (224 x 161mm). Original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt (extremities very lightly rubbed). Provenance: Gustav Amundsen (brother of Roald Amundsen, WITH PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM LINCOLN ELLSWORTH 'To my dear friends, Captain and Mrs Malfred Amundsen, With the kindest regards of Lincoln Ellsworth. 7 March 1926.'), and thence by descent to the present owner;
Roald AMUNDSEN. Sydpolen. Den Norske Sydpolsfaerd med Fram 1910-1912. Kristiania: Jacob Dybwads, 1912. 2 volumes, 4° (225 x 153mm). Original blue cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt, marbled edges (extremities lightly rubbed, spines lightly stained). Provenance: Gustav Amundsen (WITH AMUNDSEN'S PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION in Norwegian 'Gustav from Roald. 24.12.14.' on front free endpaper), and thence by descent to the present owner;
[with:] PRESENTATION COPIES of Amundsen's Mitt Liv som Polarforsker (Oslo, 1927) and Amundsen and Ellsworth's Den forste Flukt over Polhavet (Oslo, 1926), both inscribed to 'Malfred and Gustav from Roald'. (5)
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