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MITTELHOLZER, Walter et al. By Airplane towards the North Pole. An Account of an Expedition to Spitzbergen in the Summer of 1923. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1925].
8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, with the rarely seen dust-wrappers; pp. 175; 48 mostly tinted black and white illustrations from photographs, 2 folding maps, 2 single-page maps; wrapper with flaws at spine ends; otherwise very good; neat ownership inscription H. Hinterleitner inside front cover.
First English edition, uncommon, especially with wrappers. An account of one of the first aerial photographic reconnaissance missions of Arctic regions over the northern part of West Spitsbergen, made in a Junkers J13 monoplane. It includes a chapter by Mittelholzer on The First Arctic Aviators. Also included in this edition is an important work on photography from airplanes by Professor Adolph Miethe, co-inventor of the first practical photographic flash.
Arctic Bibliography 11542.
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