[Rarebooks] FS: Isaac Hayes: THE OPEN POLAR SEA, Inscribed First Edition, 1867

[Charles Agvent]

  HAYES, Isaac I. THE OPEN POLAR SEA: A NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE OF 
DISCOVERY TOWARDS THE NORTH POLE IN THE SCHOONER "UNITED STATES" New 
York: Hurd & Houghton, 1867. First Edition. xxiv, 454 pages. Half 
contemporary calf, gilt. Illustrated with a portrait and nine plates. A 
presentation copy INSCRIBED by the author for William Jarvis, Jr. "with 
the best regards of his friend" and SIGNED I. I. Hayes in New York on 6 
January 1867. Armorial bookplate of Henry Payne McIntosh. Tear to 
marbled front endpaper. Rubbing and darkening of covers. Very Good, 
clean copy.                        $600.00	

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