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ARCTIC MISCELLANIES. A Souvenir Of The Late Polar Search. By The Officers And Seamen Of The Expedition.
London: Colburn And Co., 1852..
8vo. pp. xviii, 347, [1] + [34]ads. with half-title. coloured lithographed frontis. 10 wood-engraved text illus. title vignette. modern half calf, gilt edges, original gilt-stamped cloth sides bound in (slight chipping to edges of 2 leaves repaired). First Edition. "A collection of articles extracted from a manuscript newspaper called "Aurora borealis," published monthly and edited by one of the officers of the Assistance, during the expedition under Sir H.T.Austin in search of Franklin, 1850-51, in Canadian Arctic waters. The collection includes a variety of whimsical and informative articles by members of the expedition [Admiral Sir John Ross, Commander McClintock, Commander Ommanney, Lieut. Osborn], on animals and birds, sledge journeys, entertainment, history, and the Eskimos, etc." (Arctic Bib.) Arctic Bib. 651. TPL 3128. Lande 926. Sabin 1924. Smith 273.
$1998 USD                          Book Number: elala2673                         Order / Enquire




LETTERS Written During The Late Voyage Of Discovery In The Western Arctic Sea. By An Officer Of The Expedition.
London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips And Co., 1821..
8vo. pp. iv, 124. engraved frontis. map & 3 engraved plates. modern quarter cloth (faint dampstain to lower half of leaves). First Edition. "Letters from the Parry Expedition, 1819-20, describing the voyage and the wintering at Winter Harbour, Melville Island, the Canadian arctic waters and their ice, the arctic night, the activities of the crews and the weather." (Arctic Bib.) Arctic Bib. 9949. Lande 1288 (no mention of plates). Sabin 40658. TPL 4863.
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(ARCTIC).
RECENT EXPEDITIONS To The Eastern Polar Seas. 1. Voyage Of The Hansa And Germania. 2. Voyage Of the Tegethoff.
Edinburgh & New York: T.Nelson And Sons, 1886..
8vo. pp. 143. 2 double-page maps & 12 full-page text illus. original black-stamped cloth (extremities frayed). London, cfArctic Bib. 14302.
$100 USD                          Book Number: elala3234                         Order / Enquire



ABERCROMBIE, W[illiam] R[alph] [b. 1857].
Alaska. 1899. Copper River Exploring Expedition.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900..
8vo. pp. 169. 168 illus. after photographs on 127 plates. lacking the folding map. original cloth (bound upside down, few stains to cloth, spine ends frayed & spine nicked, short marginal tears in a few plates - no loss). First Edition. The expedition, commanded by Abercrombie, explored the area and constructed an 80-mile pack trail from Valdez through the Chugach Mountains to the Klutena River divide in order to connect Eagle City on the Yukon with Valdez by way of Copper Centre. Arctic Bib. 18342. Ricks p. 1. Wickersham 7772.
$79 USD                          Book Number: elala3280                         Order / Enquire



ABRUZZI, Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of.
On the "Polar Star" In The Arctic Sea.Translated By William Le Queux.
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1903..
2 Volumes. large 8vo. pp. xvi, 346, [xvii]-xxii; viii, [347]-702, [ix]-xii. with half-titles. titles in red & black. 16 photogravure plates, 2 folding panoramas, 5 coloured maps (2 folding) & 212 text illus. (many full-page). original gilt-stamped cloth (shaken, cloth scuffed, extremities slightly frayed, library stamps on front flyleaves). First Edition of the English Translation of Abruzzi's account of the 1899-1900 Italian expedition to the Arctic. Travelling on the 'Stella Polare' from Archangel, the expedition sailed across the Barents Sea to Rudolph Island and Franz Joseph Land. The work includes an account, written by Umberto Cagni, of the sledge party's unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole and their journey to 83° 16'. Arctic Bib. 10423. National Maritime Museum I 1001.
$599 USD                          Book Number: elala2542                         Order / Enquire



[ADAMS, William Henry Davenport].
The Arctic World: Its Plants, Animals, And Natural Phenomena. With a Historical Sketch of Arctic Discovery.
London, Edinburgh & New York: T.Nelson & Sons, 1876..
folio. pp. viii, [9]-276. 118 wood-engraved text illus. (many full-page, incl. frontis.). original black & gilt-stamped cloth, t.e.g. (extremities frayed, head of spine chipped, light spotting to outer leaves). school prize bookplate on front paste-down. First Edition. Not in Arctic Bib.
$250 USD                          Book Number: elala3281                         Order / Enquire



ALEXANDER, Caroline.
The Endurance Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (In Association With The American Museum Of Natural History).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999..
8vo. pp. 5 p.l., 211, [3]. text illus. quarter cloth. dw. Seventh Printing.
$41 USD                          Book Number: AEXeALEX39                         Order / Enquire



ALSFORD, Stephen (Ed.).
The Meta Incognita Project Contributions to Field Studies. Mercury Series Directorate Paper No. 6.
[Hull]: Canadian Museum of Civilization in collaboration with the Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Museum of Natural Histo.
8vo. pp. viii, 219. text illus. wrs.
$31 USD                          Book Number: ASFeALSF23                         Order / Enquire



ANDERSON, Johann [1674-1743].
Nachrichten Von Island, Grönland und der Strasse Davis, zum wahren Nutzen der Wissenschaften und der Handlung.
Frankfurt & Leipzig: 1747..
8vo. pp. 15 p.l., 368, [7]index. engraved frontis., folding engraved map, & 4 folding engraved plates. woodcut ornaments. later half calf (light browning to plates). Second Edition (1st: 1746) of this description of Iceland, Greenland and Davis Strait. Emphasis is placed on the natural history and commercial potential of the islands, and there is also discussion of the Esquimaux of Greenland. Johann Anderson, German lawyer and geographer, became syndic and then first burgomaster (in 1732) of his native city, Hamburg, and assisted at many important international negotiations, including the Treaty of Utrecht. This is his most important work, published after his death. The appendix contains a brief grammar and vocabulary of the Icelandic language explained in German and Danish. Fiske p. 10. JCB I 844 (calling for 13 p.l., 1 map & 3 plates). Lauridsen p. 35. Sabin 1405. cfBell A204 (1746 edn.).
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ARMSTRONG, Alex[ander] [1818-1899].
A Personal Narrative Of The Discovery Of The North-West Passage; With Numerous Incidents Of Travel And Adventure During Nearly Five Years' Continuous Service In The Arctic Regions While In Search Of The Expedition Under Sir John Franklin.
London: Hurst And Blackett, 1857..
8vo. pp. xxii, [2], 616. [pp. 129-44 mispaginated 145-60]. tinted lithographed frontis. & folding coloured lithographed map. A very good copy in original blind-stamped cloth (inner rear hinge starting to crack). First Edition. Armstrong was surgeon-naturalist of the H.M.S. Investigator on the 1850-54 expedition under command of Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure, sent to continue the search for the missing John Franklin by way of Bering Strait. It was on this voyage that the North-West passage was discovered, for which McClure was knighted and he and his crew shared a reward of £10,000. The expedition discovered Prince of Wales Strait between Banks and Viscount Melville Sound before being blocked by ice less than thirty miles from Viscount Melville Sound. Armstrong's narrative details the exploration by sledge parties of Banks and Victoria Islands, the 'freezing in' and abandonment of the Investigator at Bay of Mercy in 'Banks' (later renamed M'Clure) Strait, and the starving crew's rescue by the Resolute commanded by Captain Henry Kellett in 1854. Also included are details regarding weather and ice conditions, flora and fauna, the Inuit, and the health of the crew. The narrative "furnishes moving descriptions of appalling peril in the wind-driven pack-ice, along with a candid exposure of the condition to which the crew were reduced, thereby contradicting McClure's arrogant boast that he could have saved the men's lives without external aid. The book was awarded the Gilbert Blane gold medal for the best journal kept by a surgeon of the Royal Navy. Among the published journals of Arctic exploration, Armstrong's Personal Narrative holds first place with Franklin's Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in interest and value." (Neatby, DCB) Arctic Bib. 682. Sabin 2017. TPL 3408. Not in Lande. Story p. 477. DCB XII pp. 37-39.
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BACK, Captain [George] [1796-1878].
Narrative Of The Arctic Land Expedition To The Mouth Of The Great Fish River, And Along The Shores Of The Arctic Ocean, In The Years 1833, 1834, And 1835.
London: John Murray, 1836..
8vo. pp. x, [1 leaf]list of plates, 663, [1]. large folding engraved map & 16 engraved & lithographed plates. 8 wood-engraved text illus. (incl. map). original blind-stamped cloth (joints repaired, pp. 109-112 misbound after p. 100). First Edition. Back had previously gained considerable experience as an arctic explorer through his participation in the abortive Buchan expedition and Franklin's two overland expeditions. Back was "one of the first competent artists to penetrate into the Canadian Arctic"; the many watercolours and drawings which he produced and which enhance his narratives and those of Franklin "are now considered an invaluable record of early northern history" (DCB). Although Back was highly valued by the British Admiralty, he was not a popular personality and he developed a fairly controversial reputation as a dandy, womanizer and hopeless egocentric. The privately financed, government-assisted expedition described in this narrative was undertaken in 1833, for the purpose of aiding members of the Second Ross expedition, from whom no one had heard since 1828. They were also to conduct scientific investigations and a geographical survey of an unknown section of arctic coast. They travelled overland from Montreal to Slave River and Great Slave Lake, and descended the Thleweechodozeth or Great Fish River (later renamed the Back River) to the arctic coast, thence along Chantrey Inlet to Ogle Point. The work also includes a valuable appendix on natural history and scientific subjects by Back, Richardson, Hooker, Children, Fitton and King, a discussion of Hearne's journey, 1769-72, by Richardson (chapt. 5), observations on the Netsilik Esquimaux at the mouth of the Back River, &c. A list of subscribers to the expedition occupies pp. 638-63. Field 63 (17 plates). Lande 935. Sabin 2613n. cfArctic Bib. 851. cfSmith 393. cfTPL 1873. DCB X pp. 26-29. Story p. 44.
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BACK, Captain [George] [1796-1878].
Narrative Of The Arctic Land Expedition To The Mouth Of The Great Fish River, And Along The Shores Of The Arctic Ocean, In The Years 1833, 1834, And 1835.
London: John Murray, 1836..
8vo. pp. x, [1 leaf]list of plates, 663, [1]. large folding engraved map & 16 engraved & lithographed plates. 8 wood-engraved text illus. (incl. map). untrimmed in full modern calf by Annegret Hunter-Elsenbach, spine richly gilt (map neatly backed on rice paper, some leaves with light marginal dampstains). First Edition. Back had previously gained considerable experience as an arctic explorer through his participation in the abortive Buchan expedition and Franklin's two overland expeditions. Back was "one of the first competent artists to penetrate into the Canadian Arctic"; the many watercolours and drawings which he produced and which enhance his narratives and those of Franklin "are now considered an invaluable record of early northern history" (DCB). Although Back was highly valued by the British Admiralty, he was not a popular personality and he developed a fairly controversial reputation as a dandy, womanizer and hopeless egocentric. The privately financed, government-assisted expedition described in this narrative was undertaken in 1833, for the purpose of aiding members of the Second Ross expedition, from whom no one had heard since 1828. They were also to conduct scientific investigations and a geographical survey of an unknown section of arctic coast. They travelled overland from Montreal to Slave River and Great Slave Lake, and descended the Thleweechodozeth or Great Fish River (later renamed the Back River) to the arctic coast, thence along Chantrey Inlet to Ogle Point. The work also includes a valuable appendix on natural history and scientific subjects by Back, Richardson, Hooker, Children, Fitton and King, a discussion of Hearne's journey, 1769-72, by Richardson (chapt. 5), observations on the Netsilik Esquimaux at the mouth of the Back River, &c. A list of subscribers to the expedition occupies pp. 638-63. Arctic Bib. 851. Sabin 2613. Smith 393. TPL 1873. cfField 63 (17 plates). cfLande 935. DCB X pp. 26-29. Story p. 44.
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BACK, Captain [George] [1796-1878].
Narrative Of The Arctic Land Expedition To The Mouth Of The Great Fish River, And Along The Shores Of The Arctic Ocean, In The Years 1833, 1834, And 1835.
London: John Murray, 1836..
4to. pp. x, [1 leaf]list of plates, 663, [1]. large folding engraved map & 16 engraved & lithographed plates on india paper, mounted. 8 wood-engraved text illus. (incl. map). modern bds. (very occasional light foxing, some offsetting from plates). First Edition: Large-Paper Admiralty Issue. Back had previously gained considerable experience as an arctic explorer through his participation in the abortive Buchan expedition and Franklin's two overland expeditions. Back was "one of the first competent artists to penetrate into the Canadian Arctic"; the many watercolours and drawings which he produced and which enhance his narratives and those of Franklin "are now considered an invaluable record of early northern history" (DCB). Although Back was highly valued by the British Admiralty, he was not a popular personality and he developed a fairly controversial reputation as a dandy, womanizer and hopeless egocentric. The privately financed, government-assisted expedition described in this narrative was undertaken in 1833, for the purpose of aiding members of the Second Ross expedition, from whom no one had heard since 1828. They were also to conduct scientific investigations and a geographical survey of an unknown section of arctic coast. They travelled overland from Montreal to Slave River and Great Slave Lake, and descended the Thleweechodozeth or Great Fish River (later renamed the Back River) to the arctic coast, thence along Chantrey Inlet to Ogle Point. The work also includes a valuable appendix on natural history and scientific subjects by Back, Richardson, Hooker, Children, Fitton and King, a discussion of Hearne's journey, 1769-72, by Richardson (chapt. 5), observations on the Netsilik Esquimaux at the mouth of the Back River, &c. A list of subscribers to the expedition occupies pp. 638-63. Arctic Bib. 851. Field 63 (17 plates). Lande 935. Sabin 2613. cfSmith 393. cfTPL 1873. DCB X pp. 26-29. Story p. 44.
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BARTLETT, Robert A[bram] [1875-1946] & Ralph T. HALE.
The Last Voyage Of The Karluk Flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-16.
Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, [1916]..
8vo. pp. 6 p.l., 329. 4 maps & 22 plates. Untrimmed & partly unopened in original cloth (library pocket on rear paste-down & number on lower spine, otherwise very good, with no other marking). First Canadian Edition. Bartlett was captain of the Karluk, the ship carrying the northern party of the Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-16 led by Vilhjalmar Stefansson. He recounts his voyage north to Alaska from Esquimault, the departure of Stefansson and others to search for fresh meat when the ship was trapped by ice, the drift in Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, the sinking of the Karluk, the sledge journey to Wrangell Island, and the eventual rescue of the survivors. Almost half of the crew died on the expedition. cfArctic Bib. 1112.
$150 USD                          Book Number: elala5140                         Order / Enquire



BEECHEY, Frederick William [1796-1856].
Narrative Of A Voyage To The Pacific And Beering's Strait, To Co-Operate With The Polar Expeditions: Performed In His Majesty's Ship Blossom, Under The Command Of F.W.Beechey...In The Years 1825, 26, 27, 28...
London: Henry Colburn And Richard Bentley, 1831.
2 Volumes. 8vo. 1 p.l., [v]-xxvi, [2], 472; iv, 330, [2], [331]-452. lacking half-title in Vol. I? 3 folding engraved maps, 23 engraved & aquatint plates (4 double-page), & 1 text illus. A near fine set in contemporary calf, all edges gilt (some light wear, some spotting to covers, bookplate removed from front paste-downs). First Octavo Edition of "one of the most valuable of modern voyages." (Hill) Beechey's expedition was sent to explore uncharted areas of the Pacific, to pass eastward through Bering Strait while charting the coast, and to attempt to meet up with two expeditions seeking the northwest passage from the east, one overland from the Mackenzie River (N.W.T.) led by John Franklin and one naval from Prince Regent Inlet commanded by William Edward Parry. Beechey and Franklin came within 146 miles of each other, one of Beechey's vessels managing to penetrate as far as Point Barrow, Alaska, while Franklin turned back at Return Reef at about 149 degrees west. Beechey's narrative contains scientific data, descriptions of Eskimo life and culture, and much of importance relating to Alaska (including the Aleutian, Pribilov and other islands), the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Society Islands, Tahiti, Hawaii, Macao, Okinawa, and the coast of California. There are valuable accounts of Monterey and San Francisco prior to the American conquest, as well as a lengthy account of the mutiny of the Bounty, as related by its sole survivor, John Adams, at Pitcairn Island. Arctic Bib. 1228. Howes B-309. Lada-Mocarski 95n. Sabin 4347. Smith 704. TPL 1476. Zamorano 4. cfHill p. 19. cfLande S161. cfGagnon I 240. cfStreeter VI 3517. cfWickersham 6541.
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