Set Reminder2022-02-26 12:00:002022-02-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-21955 Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779.
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[ARCTIC]. PEARY, Robert E. (1856?1920). Northward Over the ?Great Ice?. London: Methuen & Co., 1898. 2 volumes, 8vo. Numerous illustrations from photographs and maps, foldout. Original publisher?s gilt?lettered pictorial blue cloth stamped in silver foil, top edge gilt, others uncut (few tiny spots of light wear to extremities, else fine). FIRST EDITION of Peary?s reconnaissance of the Greenland inland ice in 1886 and an account of the North Greenland Expedition of 1891?92. Arctic Bibliography 13231.