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[THE STEAMER “JEANNETTE"]. Group of 10 Titles in 11 Volumes, including: DE LONG, George W. The Voyage of the Jeannette… Edited by His Wife, Emma De Long. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883. 8vos. Illustrated. 2 volumes. With all illustrations except for the frontispiece of volume 2. Bound in modern library blue cloth (some wear, soiling, a few pages with tape repairs, a few gutters overopened). Good. FIRST EDITION. And: Proceedings of the “Proteus" Court of Inquiry on the Greely Relief Expedition of 1883 (“Loss of the Steamer Jeannette"). Washington: GPO, 1884. 8vo. Illustrated with 14 fold-out maps and charts. Contemporary half brown morocco, gilt (binding worn, soiled, hinges starting, some foxing in text, a few fold-outs with tears). Good. FIRST EDITION, “Senate" issue on main title-page, “House of Representatives" issue on following title-page. And: DANENHOWER, Lieutenant. Lieutenant Danenhower's Narrative of the “Jeannette". Boston: James Osgood, 1882. 8vo. With both plates and fold-out map. Original wrappers, bound-in modern library blue cloth (wrappers with tape repairs or restoration, some soiling in text). FIRST EDITION OF THIS FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE LOSS OF THE “JEANNETTE." And: Index to the Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives for the First Session of the Forty-Eighth Congress… Washington: GPO, 1884. 8vo. Bound in contemporary full calf, red, brown, and green gilt morocco lettering labels (spine chipped, binding worn, soiled, hinges starting). Good. FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE OFFICIAL INQUIRY INTO THE LOSS OF THE “JEANNETTE." And: NEWCOMB, Raymond Lee. Our Lost Explorers: The Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition… Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1883. 8vo. Illustrated. 2 copies. Publisher's pictorial cloth [and] modern library blue cloth binding (worn, soiled, foxed, text toned, a few gutters overopened). Good. EARLY EDITIONS. And: GILDER, William. Ice-Pack and Tundra. An Account of the Search for the Jeannette… New York: Scribner's 1883. 8vo. Illustrated. Bound in modern library blue cloth (light rubbing to binding, some toning to text). Very good. FIRST EDITION. And: Sanitary Suggestions for the Information and Guidance of the Jeannette Search Expedition. Washington: GPO, 1881. 8vo. Original wrappers bound-in modern library blue cloth (wrappers soiled with tape repairs, several pages with tape reinforcement at lower margins). Fair. FIRST EDITION. And: ELLSBERG, Captain Edward. Cruise of the Jeannette. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1950. 8vo. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth binding, unclipped dust jacket (cloth rubbed; jacket chipped, worn). Very good. SECOND PRINTING. And: ELLSBERG, Commander Edward. Hell on Ice. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1944. 8vo. Illustrated. 8vo. Publisher's cloth, unclipped dust jacket (cloth rubbed, jacket tattered in pieces). Fair. LATER EDITION. INSCRIBED BY ADMIRAL ELLSBERG ON THE HALF-TITLE. The steamer “Jeannette" was an American expedition to reach the North Pole from the Pacific through the Bering Strait; this failed. The “Jeannette" was stuck in the ice and drifted for 2 years, and the crew of 33 had to travel overland to the Lena Delta for rescue - 20 men, including the commander, Captain De Long, died.