USA – Polar Exploration Signed – In the Lena Delta; a narrative of the search for Lieut-Commander DeLong and his companions 1885 followed by an account of the Greely Relief Expedition by George W Melville, 1st edition, Dedicated in ink ‘Philada Han 1887. To my old Comrade Mr C. Williamson with the compliments of the author Geo Melville, Chief engineer USN’, 16x illustrations, 4x double page maps, pictorial cloth covers faded and scuffed, front cover shaken, internally clean