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FLEISCHMANN HOLMES, Bettie (1873-1941). The Log of the “Laura" in Polar Seas. A Hunting Cruise from Tromsö, Norway to Spitsbergen, the Polar Ice Off East Greenland and the Island of Jan Mayen in the Summer of 1906. Cambridge: The University Press, 1907. 4to. Illustrated throughout with photogravure plates and a double-page map. [viii], 1-137, [1, blank] pp. Captioned tissue guards. Publisher's deluxe binding of a brown calf backstrip over cloth boards, boards stamped in dark green, front board lettered in gilt, spine ruled, tooled, and lettered in gilt, green and gilt patterned endleaves (binding heavily worn, boards detached yet present, older tape repairs to hinges). Fair. FIRST DELUXE EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, WITH A PRINTED PRESENTATION LEAF INSCRIBED BY AND SIGNED BY HOLMES INSERTED AT FRONT. Inscribed by Holmes to Doctor and Mrs Kyle, dated by hand: “December twenty fourth Nineteen Hundred and Seven". Holmes was an American socialite, philanthropist, and adventurer.