Northward Over the Great Ice: A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891 - 1897; With a Description of the Little Tr
by PEARY, ROBERT E
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Methuen & Co, 1898. Two volume set, octavo red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontis, illus (1) lxxx + 521pp (2) xiv + 625pp; both VG (foxing to eps, light fading to spine, wear to cloth cover with slight fraying at spine edges, v light tanning (1) small chip to spine top)
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- Title
- Northward Over the Great Ice: A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891 - 1897; With a Description of the Little Tr
- Author
- PEARY, ROBERT E
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co, 1898
- Keywords
- history greenland eskimos travel adventure autobiography nineteenth-century robert e. peary
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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- VG
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- Gilt
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- Octavo
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