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.
Farthest North. Fridtjof Nansen's "Farthest North", being the record of a voyage of the ship Fram, 1893-96. and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen, with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup captain of the Fram. (2 volumes)
London: George Newnes Ltd, 1897. 1st ed., 2 volumes octavo, pp. 480, 456, b&w fronts port of author, colour plate at page 1. Vol. I and b&w fronts. portrait to Vol. II, b&w plates both volumes with folding map at end of Vol. II., bound in pictorial eps, green gilt.....
A Voyage of Discovery, made under the orders of the Admiralty in His Majesty's Ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay, and inquiring into the probability of a North-West Passage [First Edition]
London: John Murray, 1819. 1st edition, 4to., pp. [v], xxxix, [I, list of illustrations], 252, cxliv (Appendix); 3 folding maps and charts including frontispiece, 15 coloured aquatint plates including 4 folding, 5 sepia plates, 2 uncoloured plates, 3 folding views of headlands, 4 engraved meteorological plates including 3 folding, light.....
Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, ..and the Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole ... includes Reports of Commander now Capt J.C. Ross
London: Orlando Hodgson, nd c( 1836). 8vo, pp. (9)- 463, b/w frontis portrait, 11 b/w plates, marbled eps, light foxing prelims and plates, occasional marks scattered throughout, original leather boards professionally restored RARE. The Hodgson octavo edition, quite possibly a piracy, complete with 11 plates and including a frontispiece portrait.....
An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery. Two Volumes
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, (1820) 1969. 1st ed thus, Volumes 1 & 2 (complete), octavo, Vol.1: pp.xx, 551, (82, appendix), folding fronts. & table, Vol. 2: pp.viii. 574, incl Index, 22 plates at end, some folding including a map, prev. owners inscr. in first volume, some water marking to.....
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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