Payer,J. The Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition... Lot 1372

Payer,J. The Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition in the years 1872-1874, together with a sketch of the second German North Pole Expedition 1869-1870 and the Polar Expedition of 1871. Vienna, Hölder 1876. With 146 partly fulls. Textillustr. and 3 lithogr. folding maps. CVI p., 1 leaf, 696 pp. Hardcover with gilt stamped title. (partly worn and rubbed). Chavanne 3408, Embacher 227, first edition. - Detailed report on the Austrian North Pole expedition under Julius Payer and Karl Weyprecht, which led to the possession of the only Austrian colony Franz-Josephs-Land (north of the 80th parallel). - Slightly browned, sporadically somewhat stained.