Arctic

  • Vervarelyke schip-breuk van't Oost-Indische jacht ter Schelling onder het landt van Bengale

    # 48548

    HEIDEN, Frans Janszoon van der

    Vervarelyke schip-breuk van’t Oost-Indische jacht ter Schelling onder het landt van Bengale

    Harderwiljk : Dirk en Jan Rampen, 1707. Quarto, contemporary vellum; pp. [1]-81 (Vervarelyke schip-breuk), 82-96 (accounts of Arakan, Martavan, Tanassery, Bengal, and the Pathans); title with woodcut vignette of Terschelling during the fateful storm in the Bay of Bengal, a further [18] woodcuts in the text; [BOUND WITH] Joosten, Jaques. De kleyne wonderlijke wereld, waar onder …

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  • The North Pole

    # 50324

    PEARY, Robert E.

    The North Pole

    With an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. Quarto, lettered boards with pictorial only (a little rubbed), contemporary owner’s name of Frank H. Downer dated Xmas 1910 to front free endpaper, pp. xii; 326, illustrated with 116 photographic plates and a folding map of the Arctic. A very good copy. Provenance …

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  • Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and America.

    # 14845

    COXE, William (1748-1828)

    Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and America.

    To which are added, the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China. London : J. Nichols, 1780. First edition. Quarto, full polished calf (a couple of scuffs to the boards), spine extensively decorated in gilt, contrasting morocco title label, expertly rebacked, folding frontispiece map of the Russian …

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  • Travels in Siberia : including excursions northwards, down the Obi, to the Polar Circle, and southwards, to the Chinese frontier.

    # 49958

    ERMAN, Adolph

    Travels in Siberia : including excursions northwards, down the Obi, to the Polar Circle, and southwards, to the Chinese frontier.

    Translated from the German, by William Desborough Cooley. In two volumes. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1848. First English edition. Two volumes, octavo, contemporary full polished calf ruled in gilt, bindings in compartments with gilt decoration and red and green leather title and volume labels lettered in gilt; marbled edges, pastedowns and endpapers; …

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  • The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation, made by Sea or ouer-land,

    # 48826

    HAKLUYT, Richard (1552?-1616)

    The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation, made by Sea or ouer-land,

    to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the Earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres, diuided into three seuerall Volumes, according to the positions of the Regions, whereunto they were directed. The first Volume containeth the worthy Discoueries, &c. of the English toward the North and Northeast by Sea … …

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  • [JOSEPH BANKS] Letters on Iceland. (First English edition)

    # 48646

    [BANKS]. TROIL, Uno von, Archbishop of Uppsala (1746-1803)

    [JOSEPH BANKS] Letters on Iceland. (First English edition)

    Containing observations on the civil, literary, ecclesiastical, and natural history; antiquities, volcanos, basaltes, hot springs; customs, dress, manners of the inhabitants, &c. &c. Made, during a voyage undertaken in the year 1772, by Joseph Banks, Esq. P.R.S. assisted by Dr. Solander, F.R.S. Dr. J. Lind, F.R.S. Dr. Uno von Troil, and several other literary and …

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  • An abridgement of Captain Cook's first and second voyages.

    # 40477

    [COOK, James, 1728-1779].

    An abridgement of Captain Cook’s first and second voyages.

    The first performed in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 ; the second in 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775. For making discoveries in the northern hemisphere, by order of his majesty. Extracted from the quarto edition, in five volumes. Containing a relation of all the interesting transactions; including an abridgement of Captain Furneaux’s narrative of …

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  • A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A. J. von Krusenstern, of the Imperial Navy. 

    # 29235

    KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von (Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern) (1770-1846)

    A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A. J. von Krusenstern, of the Imperial Navy. 

    In two volumes. Translated from the original German by Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Esq. London : Printed by C. Roworth [Volume II Printed by T. Davison], for John Murray, Bookseller to the Admiralty and the Board of Longitude, 1813. First edition in English. Two volumes in one, quarto, later half calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), …

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  • [CHILDREN’S GAME] Voyage dans les cinq parties du monde.

    # 35516

    BUSSIÈRE (publisher); MATENET, Jules Xavier (designer); COUDERT, B. (illustrator); JANNIN, H. (lithographer)

    [CHILDREN’S GAME] Voyage dans les cinq parties du monde.

    Paris : Bussière, [between 1870 and 1880]. Original cartonnage box, 235 x 295 x 40 mm, the lid with hand-coloured lithographic onlay of a scene on the Amazon with printed game title above and picture caption below, along with the publisher’s imprint ‘Bussière, Ed. Paris’, framed by an embossed paper border (scattered silver fishing at …

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  • [COOK] Costumes de différentes nations, en miniature. Avec des descriptions.

    # 47286

    [WAKEFIELD, Priscilla; MILLS, Alfred, illustrator]

    [COOK] Costumes de différentes nations, en miniature. Avec des descriptions.

    Paris : Guyot et de Pelafol, 1816. 32mo (68 x 60 mm), original calf, boards with decorative borders in gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (a little worn at the junctions of the head and outer joints), marbled endpapers; 96 pp. with a frontispiece and 47 copperplate illustrations of people of the world; binding …

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  • [ARCTIC EXPLORATION] A Summer Evening, July, 1894. From Nansen's "Farthest North".

    # 46208

    [NANSEN, Fridtjof] NEWTON & CO. (maker)

    [ARCTIC EXPLORATION] A Summer Evening, July, 1894. From Nansen’s “Farthest North”.

    London : Newton & Co., [1897]. Photographic glass magic lantern slide, 82 x 82 mm (mount); the black paper border has a ms. caption in white ink in right-hand margin: ‘A Summer Evening / July 1894’, and a printed label in the left-hand margin ‘From Nansen’s “Farthest North,” (Copyright)’; maker’s printed label partially visible at …

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  • Frifjof Nansen's "Farthest North"

    # 47503

    NANSEN, Fridjtof (1861–1930)

    Frifjof Nansen’s “Farthest North”

    Being the record of a voyage of exploration of the Ship Fram, 1893 – 96, and of a fifteen months’ sleigh journey by D. Nansen and Lieut Johansen. With an appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram. London : Macmillan and Co., circa 1910. Macmillan’s Colonial Library. Octavo, volume two only (lacking the first …

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  • Small archive of original photographs taken at Narsarssuak (Narsarsuaq) Airbase, Greenland, 1942-45.

    # 46363

    USAF (NORTHEAST AIR COMMAND)

    Small archive of original photographs taken at Narsarssuak (Narsarsuaq) Airbase, Greenland, 1942-45.

    Group of 7 (seven) gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 200 x 250 mm format; no inscriptions to versos, but presumably taken by a USAF serviceman; all of the prints are in excellent condition. These original photographs, taken sometime between 1942 and 1945, show USAF personnel at the airbase at Narsarssuak (Narsarsuaq), Greenland, which had been …

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  • Cold recall : Roald Amundsen's reflections from the South Pole

    # 45635

    KLØVER, Geir O. (editor)

    Cold recall : Roald Amundsen’s reflections from the South Pole

    Oslo, Norway : Fram Museum, 2011. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 142, illustrated. ‘Cold Recall combines the complete texts of Roald Amundsen’s lectures about his expeditions through the Northwest Passage and the South Pole with the original hand-coloured lantern slides he used to illustrate his lectures. Together they offer a unique insight into how Amundsen presented …

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  • Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana. [Serie prima:] Anno VII. Volume X. Fascicolo 1, iuglio 1873 - Fascicolo 6, dicembre 1873].

    # 42916

    [Società Geografica Italiana]

    Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana. [Serie prima:] Anno VII. Volume X. Fascicolo 1, iuglio 1873 – Fascicolo 6, dicembre 1873].

    Roma : Stabilimento Giuseppe Civelli, June-December 1873. Six parts in five volumes (as issued), octavo, original printed blue wrappers (some light staining and foxing, early ownership inscription to two of the upper wrappers); pp. 1-120 (with folding colour map showing telegraph communication linking Europe and Asia); 1-92; 1-94; 1-117; 1-74 (with folding lithographed plate of …

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  • Evolution in art, as illustrated by the life histories of designs

    # 35361

    HADDON, Alfred C. (1855-1940)

    Evolution in art, as illustrated by the life histories of designs

    London : Walter Scott, Ltd., 1895. The Contemporary Science Series, edited by Havelock Ellis. First edition. Octavo (185 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked maroon cloth over boards lettered in gilt (lightly rubbed), spine titled in gilt (softened at the ends and with a couple of small marks); pp [4 publisher’s ads.], xviii, [2], 364, [14 ads.]; illustrated …

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