North Pole. Its Discovery in 1909 under the Auspices of the Peary
Item #74211
PEARY, Robert E. The North Pole. Its Discovery in 1909 under the Auspices of the Peary Club. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910. xxxii,373pp. 8 color plates, 100 black and white illustrations from photographs; folding colored map. Small 4to. 3/4 crushed dark blue morocco and cloth, raised spine bands, compartments gilt, T.e.g. Fine. Arctic Bibliography 13230. One of 500 signed numbered copies. The "General Hubbard" edition of this narrative of Peary's final, and successful, expedition to the North Pole in 1908-09. Pinned to a rear endpaper is a typed letter signed from Peary dated 14 March 1911 to Mr. Charles Stanford authenticating the signature on the limitation page: "I have personally signed the autograph sheet of every volume of the General Hubbard edition that has been issued." This detailed account is lavishly illustrated with eight color plates "reproducing photographic enlargements colored by hand," an additional one hundred black and white illustrations from photographs, and a folding colored map. The narrative provides information on the expedition's organization, personnel, the voyage, interactions with Eskimos, hunting, sledging, and detailed account of the final march to the pole. The volume also includes an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt and a foreword by Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Director and Editor of the National Geographic Society.
Price: $3,750.00