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Second edition, 1876. Published by Government Printing Office, U.S. (Washington, D.C.).696 pages. Original green cloth; gilt ornamentation. Pictoral frontispiece; tissue-protected engraved illustrations and maps. Spine detached.JWSC LLC is listing this property on behalf of a private collector's estate. Documentation on file indicates this book was purchased by the estate in the 1970s. Additional photos available.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Narrative of the North Polar Expedition U.S. Ship Polaris, :Captain Charles Francis Hall Commanding.

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Washington: U.S. Naval Observatory, Government Printing Office, 1876. Tall thick 4to. 696 pp. With two steel-engraved frontisps., 2 colour photolithographs, 6 maps, numerous woocut-engraved plates, and text woodcut engravings. Pictorial green publisher’s cloth, gilt illustration on front cover, of a dogsled, gilt lettering on spine (minor wear & fraying head & foot of spine, wear and minor bumping to corners, rear hinge starting, ex-lib spine label, and markings on front pastedown), still VG- copy, from the Albert Pike Freemasonry library, Washington, D.C. First edition of this memoir of the first major American attempt to reach the North Pole, which resulted in tragedy, murder, and abandonment both of crew and ship as the expedition continued. Hall had taken two sledges North in September 1871 to best Sir William Parry’s furthest north record, and upon his return October, 1871 fell violently ill, and died in November. Sidney Budington took command and again attempted to reach the Pole in June,… Read More

Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1876. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [2], 696; frontispiece portrait of Hall, engraved frontispiece of the Polaris, 32 plates (1 hand-colored), 27 illustrations in text and 6 maps; errata slip lain in; original pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in gilt, rebacked in attractive matching niger morocco, gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 4; the boards and spine a little spotted, several of tissue guards torn; all else very good and sound. The narrative of the Polaris Expedition to reach the North Pole in 1871-73, to explore the regions north of Smith Sound, and to make scientific observations. Hall is perhaps best known for best known for his collection of Inuit testimony regarding the 1845 Franklin Expedition. Hall died on the journey at the age of 50, and the circumstances surrounding his death were murky, if not suspicious. "Before he died, he accused members of the crew - the expedition's lead scientist, Emil Bessels, in particular - of having… Read More