AMEDEO DI SAVOIA, Luigi, duca degli Abruzzi and Umberto CAGNI. Spedizione italiana nel Mare Artico sulla "Stella Polare". Conferenza di S.A.R. il Duca degli Abruzzi e del Comandante Umberto Cagni tenuta in Roma sotto gli auspicî della Società Geografica Italiana (14 gennaio 1901). Rome, G. Civelli for Società Geografica Italiana, 1901.
8vo. Original printed wrappers; pp. 76, [4 (index, verso blank, blank leaf)]; 7 photographic plates, one folding, 2 folding lithographic maps by Danesi after A. Dardano; wrappers slightly marked and spotted, skilfully rebacked, lightly spotted, one map with skilfully-repaired tear, otherwise a very good copy.
Second edition, published in the same year as the first. This is a record of the lectures given by the Duke of the Abruzzi and Umberto Cagni about their North Polar Expedition on 1899-1900. The expedition, on the Stella Polare, reached 86° 34'N and thereby surpassed the highest northern latitude previously attained by Nansen in 1895. This text is reprinted from the Bollettino della Società Geographica Italiana, and appeared some two years before the official expedition account La "Stella Polare" nel mare artico, 1899-1900 (Milan: 1903).
Cf. Arctic Bibliography 10424 (journal issue).
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