* [PEARY, Robert Edwin]. A group of 6 works by or about Peary, comprising:
PEARY. Nearest the Pole. A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. 'Roosevelt'1905-1906. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1907. 8vo. Color-printed frontispiece, 2 color-printed folding route maps, numerous half-tones. -- PEARY. Secrets of Polar Travel. New York: The Century Co., 1917. 8vo. Numerous photographic plates. -- KEELY, Robert Neff (b. 1860) and Gwilym George DAVIS (1857-1918). In Arctic Seas: The Voyage of the "Kite" with the Peary Expedition. Philadelphia: Hartranft, 1892. 8vo. Frontispiece, folding map, numerous plates. -- PEARY, Josephine Diebitsch (1863-1955). My Arctic Journal. A Year Among the Ice-Fields and Eskimos. New York: Contemporary Publishing Co., 1894. 3 maps, numerous plates and in-text vignettes. Second edition. -- BRYANT, Henry G. (1859-1932). The Peary Auxiliary Expedition of 1894. Philadelphia: The Geographical Club, 1895. 8vo. Frontispiece, 2 maps, numerous plates. Original printed tan wrappers. FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, an offprint. -- MACMILLAN, Donald B. (1874-1970). How Peary Reached the Pole: The Personal Story of His Assistant. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait, numerous plates. -- All FIRST EDITIONS except where indicated, all in original publisher's cloth, condition generally good.
Estimate $200-300