Peary robert e dwin 1856 1920 (2 résultats)

8vo. pp. xxxii, 373. with half-title. 8 colour plates (incl. frontis.), 32 double-sided plates (with multiple illus.), large folding coloured map, & several text facsimiles. original decorative cloth, gilt, t.e.g. (extremities bit rubbed). Second Edition. Narrative of Peary's last expedition, 1908-09, on the Roosevelt, describing the passage through the ice of Smith Sound-Robeson Channel, the wintering at Camp Jesup, Cape Sheridan, north of Ellesmere Island, and the march on the Pole, which was reached on April 6, 1909. Peary's record was disputed by Dr. Frederick Cook, who claimed to have preceded him in 1908, but Cook's claim was disallowed, and most arctic scientists agree that Peary was the first man to reach the Pole. cfArctic Bib. 13230. cfNational Maritime Museum I 985. …

2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., [xv]-lxxx, 521; 1 p.l., [v]-xiv, 625. profusely illus. with 9 maps (1 folding), portraits, plates (1 folding), & text illus. original cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. First Edition. Including accounts of the reconnaissance of the Greenland inland ice in 1886, the North Greenland expedition of 1891-92, on which the insularity of Greenland was determined, the previously unknown shores of Inglefield Gulf and of Whale and Murchison Sounds were mapped, and a successful sledge journey was made across the icecap to Peary Land and return, &c., the North Greenland expedition of 1893-94, based in Bowdoin Bay, the North Greenland expedition of 1894-95, on which another icecap journey was made to Peary Land, and the summer voyages of 1896-97, describing excavations of meteorites at Cape York and cruise in Smith Sound. Arctic Bib. 13231. cfNational Maritime Museum I 980.…