first edition
1898 · New York
by Peary, Robert E.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1898. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo; frontispiece in each volume, large folding map, 1 folding panorama, 2 frontispiece portraits, nearly 800 illustrations throughout, primarily from photographs, many full-page; ex-James J. Hill Library, with accession numbers on spine and a perforated stamp in bottom margin of the title page; spines rather sunned, all else very good in original pictorial blue cloth, white lettering on spines and upper covers, t.e.g. This copy inscribed in volume I "To Jas. J. Hill with the compliments of the author, R. E. Peary - June '98." Contains much on the natives of northern Greenland and the expedition from McCormick Bay which determined the insularity of Greenland. Arctic Bibliography, 13231.
(Inventory #: 52461)