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Lot 159

DE LONG, George. The Voyage of the Jeannette.

Estimate: $300 - $500
Starting Bid
$150

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $10
$200 $25
$500 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000
$200,000 $50,000
$1,000,000 $100,000
DE LONG George (1844-1881). The Voyage of the Jeannette: the ship and ice journals of George W. De Long, lieutenant-commander U.S.N. ...


Edited by his wife, Emma De Long.

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, Boston. 1884.

2 volumes: frontispieces, illustrations, plates, portraits, folded maps.

Bound in gilt pictorial cloth.
Volume 1: xii, 440 p.
Volume 2: xii, [441]-911 p.

Each volume H: 9 1/4 x W: 6 x D: 2 1/2 in. Fair to poor. Covers rubbed and corners bumped, some slight foxing throughout, some slight tears. Maps are torn and loose. Slight water damage to top edges.

Pocket map in vol. 1 (Track Chart of U.S.S. Jeannette) torn in half.

Slight tears in vol. 2, pp. 649, 664, 859. Map p. 745 detached and split, map p. 840 torn. Frontispiece of Vol. 2 loose.

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From the Estate of John A. Davidson, Jr. Proceeds to benefit the APL of Lorain County and the Dittrick Museum, CWRU.