The Adventure and Exploration Library of Steve Fossett Part 1 Leslie Hindman Auctioneers No. 624
by Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
120 pages with color photographs and maps. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition.
Leslie Hindman. Auction date October 31, 2018. Softcover auction catalogue number 624. Library of Steve Fossett. James Stephen Fossett (1944-2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and held world records for five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot.
He collected works in the fields of circumnavigation and yachting, including 18th– and early 19th-century accounts of voyages around Australasia, the Pacific Northwest, and the Arctic. His library also includes landmark works about voyages by sea devoted to the discovery of the Northwest Passage and the North Pole. Sir John Ross described his first attempt to discover the North West Passage in A Voyage of Discovery… published in 1819.
Condition: Marginalia else very good.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M0388
- Title
- The Adventure and Exploration Library of Steve Fossett Part 1 Leslie Hindman Auctioneers No. 624
- Author
- Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Leslie Hindman
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 2018
- Pages
- 120 pages with color photographs and maps
- Size
- Quarto
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Bibliography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Exploration;
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