[Rarebooks] FS: NARRATIVE OF THE SECOND ARCTIC EXPEDITION MADE BY CHARLES F. HALL, 1879, profusely illustrated, price reduced

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Price reduced:    Was $350   Now  $300:

NOURSE, Prof. J. E. NARRATIVE OF THE SECOND ARCTIC EXPEDITION MADE BY 
CHARLES F. HALL: HIS VOYAGE TO REPULSE BAY, SLEDGE JOURNEYS TO THE 
STRAITS OF FURY AND HECLA AND TO KING WILLIAM'S LAND, AND RESIDENCE 
AMONG THE ESKIMOS DURING THE YEARS 1864-'69. Washington DC: Government 
Printing Office, 1879. First Edition. Large octavo (7-3/4" x 10-1/2") 
bound in the original decorated green cloth; 664 pages. Illustrated with 
2 steel-engraved portraits, over 70 wood engravings, photo engravings, 
and heliotypes, 8 sketches of regional coastlines drawn by Innuits, and 
13 maps, including the large folding linen-backed map in the rear 
pocket. Hall made three trips to the North. His ship, the Polaris, 
reached the farthest northerly point then attained by any vessel. This, 
his second visit and most extended, was published posthumously--Hall 
never returned from his third trip. Here is a detailed and valuable 
account of life among the Eskimos in the Arctic. The pages are somewhat 
toned with age and quite clean. Hinges cracked but tight; rubbing to 
spine and rear. Very Good. (#003996)        $300.00

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