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[U.S. ARCTIC EXPEDITION]. Jeannette Inquiry [in: Index to the Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives for the First Session of the Forty-Eighth Congress, 1883-’84. Vol. 31, No. 66]. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1884.
Thick 8vo (229 x 133 mm). Full contemporary sheep, two leather lettering-pieces gilt (extremities rubbed, light surface wear to spine).
A RARE ARCTIC TITLE. “This volume is a compilation of the testimony and supporting documentation gathered by the Committee on Naval Affairs of the United States House of Representatives in the course of its inquiry into the loss of the USS Jeannette in the Arctic in 1879-81 and the subsequent fate of the ship’s crew… The volume contains the transcript of testimony by the witnesses called before the committee, including Melville and Emma De Long, Lieutenant De Long’s widow, excerpts from the logs and journals kept by several of the men, and the texts of the extracts from letters, telegrams, and notes submitted to the committee” (Library of Congress).