Search Results: northward over the great ice a by peary robert e

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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Frederick A. Stokes, 1898-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. 2 volume set. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Library stamps and markings. "With maps, diagrams, and about eight hundred illustrations." Contents: Part I. Reconnaissance of the Greenland inland ice, 1886; Objects and results of 1886 reconnaissance --Part II. North Greenland expedition of 1891-1892. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

Frederick A. Stokes. Good with no dust jacket. 1914. Hardcover. Two volume set. 521,625 pages. Some cover wear and sunning. Volume 2 has green water stains down an inch and a half from the top edge for a couple hundred pages. 1914 reprint. .

Frederick A . Stokes Company. Collectible - Acceptable. NY: Frederick A . Stokes Company, 1898. 1st edition. 2 volume set. 8vo Hardcover. 521; 625pp. B/W photos. Fair Set. Both volumes: Hinges cracked. Owner's name on front free endpaper. (exploration, arctic explorers, inuit, greenland, autobiography) Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

London: Methuen & Co, 1898. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First UK edition. Front hinge of each volume just beginning to weaken, boards lightly rubbed. 1898 Hard Cover. lxxx, 521; xiv, 625 pp. 8vo. Original navy blue cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt, Arctic motif on front boards. Peary's firsthand account of his two separate Greenland expeditions, with maps, diagrams, and about 800 illustrations. Five appendices follow text. Arctic Bibliography 13231: "Contents: v. 1, pt. 1 Reconnaissance of the Greenland inland ice, 1886 (Account of the man-drawn sledge trip east of Disko Bay to about 100 miles from edge of the icecap, coasting southeastern Nugssuak Peninsula and exploring glaciers). Pt. 2. North Greenland Expedition of 1891-92. (Account of the party's exploration from its base at McCormick Bay, determining the insularity of Greenland, delineating the northern extension of the icecap; its discovery of the ice-free land masses on the north coast; observations of… Read More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co, 1898. First American Edition. Large Octavo. Author's first book, in two volumes, 521, 625pp., With a Description of the Little Tribe of Smith-Sound Eskimos, the Most Northerly Human Beings in the World, and an Account of the Discovery and Bringing Home of the "Saviksue," or Great Cape-York Meteorites. with maps, diagrams and about eight hundred illustrations by photograph, bound in blue cloth lettered and stamped in white, spine lettering white, top edges gilt, all others uncut. Spine are faded with just bit of rubbing. The author states "This narrative has been written to supply a complete authentic record of my Arctic work.....and covers all my work. The reader will find no padding, no resumes of previous work nor constant reference to other explorers." A very good set.

Methuen & Co, 1898. First Edition. Leather Binding. Very Good. 2 volumes, complete as issued. The first English edition (from American sheets). Attractively bound in period 3/4 brown morocco over red textured boards, spines with raised bands and gilt tooling, edges speckled red (minor wear to bindings, corners a bit bumped). Profusely illustrated in b/w. PROVENANCE: engraved armorial bookplate in each volume of Wickham Noakes of Crofton Hall, from the noted brewing family, one-time High Sheriff of Surrey.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1898. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo; frontispiece in each volume, large folding map, 1 folding panorama, 2 frontispiece portraits, nearly 800 illustrations throughout, primarily from photographs, many full-page; spine lightly sunned but generally a very good copy in original pictorial blue cloth, white lettering on spines and upper covers, t.e.g. Peary's firsthand account of his two separate Greenland expeditions. Contains much on the natives of northern Greenland and the expedition from McCormick Bay which determined the insularity of Greenland. Arctic Bibliography 13231.

London: Methuen & Company. 1898. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Both volumes Very Good in boards. Corners bumped. Faint foxing on front/rear end pages. Light cracking along rear gutters. .

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1898. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo; frontispiece in each volume, large folding map, 1 folding panorama, 2 frontispiece portraits, nearly 800 illustrations throughout, primarily from photographs, many full-page; ex-James J. Hill Library, with accession numbers on spine and a perforated stamp in bottom margin of the title page; spines rather sunned, all else very good in original pictorial blue cloth, white lettering on spines and upper covers, t.e.g. This copy inscribed in volume I "To Jas. J. Hill with the compliments of the author, R. E. Peary - June '98." Contains much on the natives of northern Greenland and the expedition from McCormick Bay which determined the insularity of Greenland. Arctic Bibliography, 13231.