PEARY, Robert E. 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 Tribe of Smith-Sound Eskimos, the most Northerly Human Beings in the World, and an Account of the Discovery and bringing Home of the "Saviksue," or Great Cape-York Meteorites. London: Methuen. 1898.
Two volumes, large 8vo. Publisher's original blue, gilt and silver pictorial cloth, gilt titles to upper boards and spines, silver vignette to upper covers, top edges gilt; pp.lxxx, 520; xiv, 625; black and white portrait frontispieces to both volumes, numerous black and white illustrations throughout and large & folding map to rear volume 2; a very attractive set.
First U.K. edition. Peary's reconnaissance of Greenland and the ice-cap station determined the insularity of Greenland and mapped the previously uncharted northern coastlines.
Arctic Bibliography 132231.
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