LUIGI AMEDEO DI SAVOIA, Duca degli Abruzzi.
De reis van de Stella Polare. Noordpooltocht. Uit het Italiaansch vertaald onder toezicht van Maurits Snellen.
Leiden, A.W. Sijthoff, (1903). Original pictorial cloth. With 2 maps (1 folding), 2 folding panoramas and many photographic illustrations and plates. (8),558,(2) pp. First Dutch edition, first published in Milan in 1903 La 'Stella Polare' nel mare Artico, 1899-1900. - The Duke of Abruzzi (1873-1933) sailed with 19 men to Archangel, and thence across Barents Sea to Rudolph Island, Franz Josef Land, to winter in Teplitz Bay, and to undertake marches on the ice of the Arctic Basin in attemps to reach the North Pole. - The first Italian Arctic expedition. Cat. NHSM I, p.313-14 (English and French ed.); Arctic Bibl. 10425 (Italian ed.); Stam, Books on ice, p.61; Howgego III, p.2-5.

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