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[ARCTIC ? INUIT]. A group of 4 works, including: HATT, Gudm...

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[ARCTIC ? INUIT]. A group of 4 works, including: HATT, Gudmund. Arktiske Skinddragter I Eurasien og Amerika. En Etnografisk Studie [English translation: Arctic Fur Apparel in Eurasia and America. An Ethnographic Study]. Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz, 1914. 8vo. 4 large folding plates; with errata and tipped in printed notice. Modern gilt?lettered cloth; original printed wrappers bound in. FIRST EDITION. Arctic Bibliography 6755. ?? BILBY, Julian W. Among Unknown Eskimo. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1923. 8vo. Illustrated from photographs, large folding map, several in text illustrations from drawings. Original blue?stamped black cloth (some spotting to cloth); original dust jacket (chipped with large losses, toned and soiled, old label affixed to spine panel). Provenance: Albert Lincoln Washburn (1911?2007), ownership signature of the renowned Arctic geologist. FIRST EDITION. Arctic Bibliography 1550A. ?? FLEMING, A.L. Perils of the Polar Pack. Toronto and London: Missionary Society of the Church of England; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1932]. 8vo. Illustrated, folding map at end. Original printed photographic wrappers. FIRST EDITION. ?? RASMUSSEN, Knud. Alaskan Eskimo Words. Edited by H. Ostermann. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1941. Tall 8vo. Folding map. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION of an individual monograph from Report Of The Fifth Thule Expedition, 1921-24. The Danish Expedition to Arctic North America in Charge of Knud Rasmussen, Vol III. No. 4. ?? Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, condition generally good.