Author: MELVILLE, George W.
Title: In the Lena Delta a Narrative of the Search for Lieut-Commander Delong and His Companions...
Description: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1885. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. xiii, 497.Thick 8vo, Bound in original brown decorated cloth with gilt spine titles,Maps and plates collated and present as required. Eight pages of publisher's ads at end. Boards bumped at tips and lightly rubbed at extremities. Joints a trifle worn, with spine ends slightly frayed. Front hinge cracked, but still tight. Rear hinge fine. Contents slightly age-toned and text block slightly sprung, but nothing loose. Overall, in good plus condition. Ill.: maps and woodcuts..followed by an Account of the Greely Relief Expedition and A Proposed Method of Reaching the North Pole.

Keywords: Arctic;Greely;North Pole;Northwest Passage;;;;; maps and woodcuts


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