Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska .. de Ray, P.H. And Others - 1885

GPO, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. (1885), first edition, hardcover, no dust jacket, 9 1/2" x 11 3/4"; original ruled cloth with dulled lettering on varnished spine; ex museum library with its bookplate and private gift label; 695 pp., indexed; numerous plates from photographs, two full-color chromolithographs of shore birds in full coastal habitat, and color-tinted frontis lithograph of signal station building under U.S. flag; some edge-wear to tissue guards, tanning to edges of book-block, but generally quite clean and unblemished; binding slightly shaken but sound and intact; paper joints partially split and re-glued.