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PAYER, Julius (1841-1915). New Lands within the Arctic Circle. Narrative of the Discoveries of the Australian Ship “Tegetthoff” in the Years 1872-1874. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876.
2 volumes, 8vo. Color lithograph frontispiece, 2 double-page maps, numerous wood-engravings. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt and black (spines sunned, light wear at ends and corners, vol. II recased).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE PUBLISHER with their embossed stamp on the title-page “with the publisher’s compliments”. Payer was the leader of the Austro-Hungarian North-Polar Expedition described here. During this voyage, he made the discovery of Franz Joseph Land- an unknown shore that, upon return, many critics doubted its existence. Arctic Bib. 13202.