The Possibility of Approaching the North Pole Asserted.

First separate American edition of this work arguing that reaching the North Pole was possible. Octavo, bound in modern half brown calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, black calf spine labels, title page vignette, with a folding frontispiece map of the North Pole. With an appendix containing papers on the same subject, and on a northwest passage by Colonel Beaufoy, F.R.S. In near fine condition with light toning.