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large 8vo. p. xxv, 428; xii, [1 leaf], 444. engraved frontis. portrait of Greely by Charles Schlecht, 41 plates, most engraved after photographs by George W.Rice, photographer of the expedition., 2 folding facsimiles, 81 text illus., & 9 maps (4 folding 1 coloured 1 in rear pocket). contemporary full dark red calf, all edges gilt (bit rubbed, marginal dampstaining to portions of text & to plates entering image of some plates in Vol. II). First Edition. Account of the American expedition of 1881-84, based at Fort Conger, Lady Franklin Bay, on the east coast of Ellesmere Island, which explored the north coast of Greenland from Cape Bryant to Cape Washington, the interior and west coast of Grinnell Land, and Hayes Sound on Ellesmere. All but seven members of the party perished of starvation before the survivors were rescued at Cape Sabine, Smith Sound. Arctic Bib. 6118. cfNational Maritime Museum I 971.