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THE FIRST EXPLORER TO REACH THE NORTH POLE: First Edition of Robert Peary’s The North Pole
PEARY, Robert E. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt.
The North Pole.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910.
First British edition of Peary’s illustrated account of his journey to the North Pole. Thick quarto, original cloth with a polar bear and gilt titles to the spine, gilt titles and disk to the front panel, double ruling to the front panel stamped in white, a polar bear in white to the rear panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece, profusely illustrated with a large folding map printed in color, 3 photogravures, 16 special plates, and 97 illustrations from photographs. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. In very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 148931
