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Boston/Cambridge: Houghton Miffrlin and Company/The Riverside Press, 1885 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Large Thick Octavo. Large Thick 8vo. (iv) xiii (v), 497 (11) pp, tissue-protected frontis with maps and illus. Moderate wear and age-toned text block. No markings, binding tight, clean and white.6.25" x 8.75". Illustrated brown cloth with black lettering to front board, and gilt lettering to spine. In Mylar protector..

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC. hardcover. New. 6x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885. .Followed by An Account of the Greely Relief Expedition and A Proposed Method of Reaching the North Pole; With Maps and Illustrations; Brown cloth, gilt spine title, black cover title, drab endpapers/pastedown, & tissued frontis portrait; A good ex library copy with minor loss to head/tail of spine, & interior hinges cracked; 497 pages + publisher advertisments. Size: 5.75"x8.5". Hardcover.

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Cambridge University Press. paperback. New. 5x1x8. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

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E-307. Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Longmans, Green and Company, London, UK. 1885. Xiii, 497 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in grey cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (Corners bumped and worn, small tears present along the edges of the spine). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Melville was Chief Engineer on the original Jeannette expedition. This expedition launched only shortly after the famous wreck of the Jeannette, captained by Lieut. Commander DeLong. Greatly detailed and an important historical account. George Wallace Melville (January 10, 1841 – March 17, 1912) was an American engineer, Arctic explorer, and author. As chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, he headed a time of great expansion, technological progress and change, often in defiance of the conservative element of the Navy hierarchy. He… Leer más

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1885. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [3], iv-xiii, [3], 1-497, [1], [6] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Brown cloth with black lettering and a black decoration on the front board, gilt lettering and gilt rules on the spine. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece, several plates, and four double-page maps (all illustrations done in black and white). Edited by Melville Phillips. Arctic Bibliography 11239. Melville's story of how he found the remains of DeLong's expedition, with an ethnography and a scientific review of the Lena river region. Melville was the chief engineer on the Jeannette. A few spots of wear to the spine's cloth, each hinge's paper split but the binding is secure and strong. A bookplate on the front pastedown.