Celestial & Terrestrial Exploration
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Lot 30
BORDEN, Lieutenant Commander John (1884-1961). Log of The A...
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BORDEN, Lieutenant Commander John (1884-1961). Log of The Auxiliary Schooner Yacht Northern Light? Chicago: Privately Printed [by The Lakeside Press], 1929. 4to. Photogravure frontispiece of the ?Northern Light", 11 photogravure plates. Unpaginated. Text printed in red and black. Bound in publisher's half tan buckram over blue cloth boards, printed paper label on spine, pictorial map endleaves (spine toned and worn, boards toned and soiled). Very good. LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF 100 COPIES, THIS COPY UNNUMBERED. This is Borden's account of his expedition from the Bering Strait to Siberia, funded by him, as he was the millionaire founder of Yellow Cab. Rare.
