Author: PAYER, J.,
Title: Die österreichisch-ungarische Nordpol-Expedition in den Jahren 1872-1874. Nebst einer Skizze der zweiten deutschen Nordpol-Expedition1869-1870 und der Polar-Expedition von 1871. First edn.
Description: Wien, Alfred Hölder, 1876. Later qtr. cloth, marbled sides and edges. (xxx) (incl. preface, introd. and table of contents), 696pp. Frontisp. (steel-engraved portrait), 51 steel-engraved plates, many steel-engraved text-ills., tables in text and some full-page, 3 fold. track-maps, [7]pp. of publ. advert. with 2 steel-engraved plates at very end. Detailed report on the Austrian-Hungarian North-Pole expedition, and a sketch of two consecutive german expeditions to the North Pole. A great classic in the field. A very good and clean copy.

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