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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