Archibald the Arctic
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1959. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, endpaper maps, pp 314. Previous owner's signature, very good condition in fraying dustjacket, protected.
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The Polar and Tropical Worlds : A Popular and Scientific Description of Man and Nature in the Polar and Equatorial Regions of the Globe - Two Volumes in One - Embracing the..Explorations, Researches and Discoveries in Modern Times..
n.p. unknown, c. 1880. New ed., royal 8vo, two volumes in one, pp. xxii, (17)-468, 469-843, Index, (1, advert), b/w engraved presentation plate, b/w ills and maps, lacks title-page, prev owner's signature, marbled eps, waterstaining along top edge of most pages, foxing scattered throughout, half leather boards, scuffed and marked.....
Cradle of the Storms
London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1936. Octavo, cloth boards, b&w plates, pp 268. Ex-library, with stamps, corners bumped, rubbed. Reference copy. Arctic exploration (by geologist priest). With photographs taken by the expedition.
The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger. Volumes I, II & III [Complete in 3 volumes]
London: Hakluyt, 2003-2008- 2009. 3 Volumes, Vol. I: The voyages of 1811, 1812 and 1813; Vol. II: The Voyages of 1814, 1815 and 1816; Vol. III: The Voyages of 1817, 1818 and 1820. apart from small mark to volume one d.j., all in original cl bds, gilt dec to front.....
An Account of a Voyage to Spitzbergen ; Containing A Full Description of that Country, of the Zoology of the North, and of the Shetland Isles; with An Account of the Whale Fishery
Allerthorpe, York: K Books, (1815) c. 1973. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 173. N.d. (1973). Previous owner's signature. Very good condition in like d.j. Facsimile edition of the 1815 edition. Account of the author's experiences on a whaling voyage to Spitzbergen.
To the Arctic! The Story of Northern Exploration from Earliest Times to the Present.
London: Allan Wingate, 1949. Octavo, cloth boards, b&w illus, folding map, pp xxii, 334, xviii. Ex-library with usual markings, top corner bumped, good condition.
Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: performed in the years, 1819-20, in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper, under the orders of William Edward Parry [...]
London: John Murray, 1821. 1st ed., quarto, full leather binding, newly rebacked with gilt-stamped decoration, raised pands, gilt-stamped title in panel. Lacking the first polar chart facing the title page, but all other plates and charts are present and in very good condition, including the large folding chart (with fold-down.....
Memorials of the Sea. My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby. By His Son The Rev. Wiliam Scoresby, D.D.
Whitby: Caedmon, 1978. Octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, frontis portrait plate, pp viii, 232. Small previous owner's bookplate, near-fine condition in near-fine dustjacket, protected. Uncommon. Facsimile reprint, first published in 1851.The author was himself a well-known English Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman. A biography of his father, who he accompanied.....
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