HOPPIN, B[enjamin] (1851-1923). A Diary Kept with the Peary Arctic Expedition of 1896. [Privately Printed, 1897]. Small 8vo. Illustrated with map frontispiece map and black and white plate. 80, [2, blank] pp. Publisher's full light gray cloth, front board lettered in gilt (binding rubbed and toned at edges, light toning to endleaves and text). Near Fine. With the bookplate of William Neely Ross on the fp. THE RARE FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HOPPIN'S MOTHER, MARY DEMING HOPPIN ON THE FFEP: ?Mrs Cady from M. D. Hoppin June 1897". Benjamin Hoppin was Peary's mineralogist; this is his first-hand account of the Arctic expedition aboard the Hope.