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Auction: 344 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at Grand Hyatt, NY INC
Lot: 911

Fighting the Polar Ice. By Anthony Fiala. Doubleday, Page & Company, NY 1906. First printing. Large 8vo. Xxi, 302pp, color frontis, photos, illustrations, maps, fold-out map in rear pocket. Green cloth covers. The author accompanied the 1901-1902 Baldwin Ziegler Polar expedition as a photographer, then commanded the 1903-1905 expedition which left from Tromsö. The expedition reached 84 degrees 4' N, surveyed the Franz Joseph archipelago, but lost its ship in Teplitz Bay and failed to reach the Pole. No dust jacket. Pencil notation inside cover, a few small nicks to top and bottom of spine. Very Good.

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