The Voyage of the Jeannette. The Ship and Ice Journals of George W. De Long, Lieutenant-Commander U.S.N. and Commander of the Polar Expedition of 1879-1881

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884. First Edition. First printing. Two large octavo volumes (24cm). Publisher's pictorial brown pebbled cloth; xii,[1]-440; xxii,[441]-911pp. Volume I with folding map in rear pocket; inserted folding circumpolar map; steel-engraved frontispiece and seven unnumbered leaves of plates (on wood and steel); Volume Il with steel-engraved frontispiece, seven inserted leaves of wood-engraved plates; numerous illustrations, maps, and plans in-text. Private ownership markings, including ink name stamps to endpapers and text block edges; printed bookplate of a John Davidson to each volume, over-laying an earlier handwritten ownership signature. Hinges slightly stressed, with partial cracks to endpapers at gutters, but holding strong and overall a sturdy, attractive set, the pictorial bindings quite bright and clean, all maps and plates called for are present and in excellent condition.

Recounts the fatal journey of the Jeannette to discover the North Pole in 1879, based on the journals of the expedition's commanding officer G.W. De Long who perished in the endeavor along with nineteen members of his crew. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 3839.