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SAUER, Martin.
Reise nach Siberien, Kamtschatka und zur Untersuchung der Mundung des Rowina-Flusses.in den Jahren 1785 bis 1794 unternommen von Kapitan Joseph Billings.
Berlin & Hamburg: 1803..
8vo. pp. 4 p.l., vii [i.e. viii], [9]-334. 2 engraved plates & 1 folding map. contemporary half calf (bit rubbed, scattered foxing). A German translation (Vol. XIV of the sries 'Bibliothek der neuesten und unteressantesten Reisebeschreibungen' of the "first account in English of the first major exploring expedition sent out by the Russians to the Frozen Sea and the North Pacific after Bering's second expedition of 1741." (Streeter) It was the last of the major Russian surveys of the eastern coast of Siberia and required nine years to accomplish. During that time the expedition visited the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, Kodiak, Montague Island and Prince William Sound. Joseph Billings, who had previously accompanied Cook on his last fatal voyage and subsequently entered the Russian navy, was selected by Catherine the Second to command the expedition. The author of the account, Martin Sauer, served as historian and secretary to Billings on the voyage. Sabin 77152. Smith 8990. Wickersham 6138. cfSoliday IV 585. cfHowes S-117. cfBell S117. cfCox I 353. cfHill p. 268. cfHowgego B96. cfLada-Mocarski 58. cfRicks p. 192. cfStreeter VI 3499.
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SCHERMAN, Katherine.
Spring on an Arctic Island.
Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1956..
8vo. pp. xvii, 331. 4 double-sided plates. maps on endleaves. index. cloth (spine faded). First Edition.
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SCHWATKA, Frederick [1849-1892].
A Summer In Alaska.
St. Louis, Mo.: J.W.Henry, 1893..
8vo. pp. 418. frontis. portrait. numerous text illus. (many full-page). original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (extremities & joints rubbed). An enlarged edition of Schwatka's Along Alaska's Great River (1885) with three additional chapters and a frontispiece portrait of the author; the two folding maps were not included in this edition. "A detailed narrative for general readers of the Alaska Military Reconnaissance 1883. with running comment on the country traversed, on the Indians, Eskimos, and their customs." (Arctic Bib.) The expedition under Lt. Schwatka travelled from Lynn Canal via Lake Bennett and Lewes River to the Yukon's headwaters and down to its mouth in June and August of 1883. Arctic Bib. 15604. Ricks p. 193. Smith 9141. Wickersham 2798.
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SCHWATKA, Frederick [1849-1892].
Along Alaska's Great River. A Popular Account Of The Travels Of The Alaska Exploring Expedition Of 1883.In The British North-West Territory, And In The Territory Of Alaska.
New York: Cassell & Company, [c1885]..
8vo. pp. 360. wood-engraved frontis. & 70 wood-engraved text illus. (many full-page) after photographs by Mr. Homan & sketches by Sergeant Gloster. 3 maps (2 folding - 1 inserted in front pocket). original black & gilt-stamped cloth, t.e.g. (extremities chipped & frayed, hinges taped). First Edition. "A detailed narrative for general readers of the Alaska Military Reconnaissance 1883. with running comment on the country traversed, on the Indians, Eskimos, and their customs." (Arctic Bib.) The expedition under Lt. Schwatka travelled from Lynn Canal via Lake Bennett and Lewes River to the Yukon's headwaters and down to its mouth in June and August of 1883. Arctic Bib. 15598. Ricks p. 193. Smith 9127. Wickersham 2793.
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SCIDMORE, E[liza] Ruhamah [1856-1928].
Alaska Its Southern Coast And The Sitkan Archipelago.
Boston: D.Lothrop Company, [1885]..
12mo. pp. viii, 333, vi. 8 plates. double-page frontis. map. numerous text illus. modern buckram. First Edition. Essentially a tourist guide composed of the author's letters written to various newspapers on two summer cruises to Alaska, 1883-84, combined with information drawn from published sources. Included are short descriptions of Victoria, Nanaimo, Metlahkatla, and coastal waters of British Columbia. Arctic Bib. 15606. Lowther 692. Ricks p. 194. Smith 9143. Wickersham 3968.
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SCORESBY, William [1789-1857].
Journal Of A Voyage To The Northern Whale Fishery; Including Researches And Discoveries On The Eastern Coast Of West Greenland, Made In The Summer Of 1822, In The Ship Baffin Of Liverpool.
Edinburgh: Printed For Archibald Constable And Co., Edinburgh & Hurst, Robinson & Co., London, 1823..
8vo. pp. xliii, 472. complete with half-title. 2 folding engraved maps & 6 engraved plates (2 folding). several diagrams in the text. An uncut copy in modern cloth (foxing to plates & adjacent leaves, tear in 1 map repaired - no loss, faded small institutional rubberstamp on title). First Edition. Scoresby's regular whaling voyages to the Greenland fishery gradually came to involve exploration and the study of the natural history of the Arctic regions; he was largely encouraged in the latter regard through his correspondence with Joseph Banks. This work is an account of his 1822 voyage, which combined several weeks whaling with the exploration of the Scoresby Sound region (on this voyage Scoresby named Scoresby land and Scoresby Sound) and approximately 800 miles of the East Greenland coast, searching for Esquimaux settlements and making scientific observations. He describes ice and weather conditions, optical phenomena, and ruins of Esquimaux dwellings and their burial places. Appended is a list of rock specimens by W.Jameson, an annotated list of 45 species of plants by Sir W.J.Hooker, a list of animals, a meteorological table and extracts from the journals of two other whalers. Arctic Bib. 15614. Hill p. 270 (7 plates in total). National Maritime Museum Cat. I 834. Sabin 78171.
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SCORESBY, [William] [1789-1857].
The Arctic Regions; Their Situation, Appearances, Climate, And Zoology.
London: The Religious Tract Society, [c1849]..
16mo. pp. viii, [9]-192. with half-title. contemporary half calf (light wear). Arctic Bib. 15611. [BOUND WITH:] SCORESBY, [William] [1789-1857]. The Northern Whale Fishery. 16mo. pp. viii, [9]-192. London: The Religious Tract Society, [c1850]. Arctic Bib. 15620 (citing incorrect date). [BOUND WITH:] [MARTIN, W.C.L.]. British Fish And Fisheries. 16mo. pp. vi, [7]-192. with half-title. London: The Religious Tract Society, [c1850].
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SCOTT, Robert F[alcon] [1868-1912].
The Voyage Of The 'Discovery'.
Toronto:The Copp, Clark Co., Limited., 1905..
2 Volumes. 12mo. pp. xii, [4], 410; viii, [2], 387. 8 plates (incl. frontis.) & 2 folding maps. original tan cloth. First Canadian Edition. Spence 1052.
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SCOTT, R[obert] F[alcon] [1868-1912].
Scott's Last Expedition.Arranged By Leonard Huxley With A Preface By Sir Clements R.Markham.
Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, [1913]..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xxiv, 446; xiv, [1 leaf], 376. 2 photogravure frontis. portraits, 6 photogravure plates after Dr. E.A.Wilson's original sketches, 4 panoramas (2 double-page & 2 folding), 8 folding maps, 2 facsimiles, & numerous plates (18 in colour). original cloth, t.e.g. (library stamps on front flyleaves). First Canadian Edition of this account of Captain Scott's second expedition to the Antarctic in 1910-13. Scott and four members of the expedition reached the South Pole on January 18th, 1912, approximately one month after the Norwegian expedition commanded by Amundsen. Tried by frostbite, starvation and blizzard conditions, Scott and his companions died on the return journey to base camp. The first volume is based on Scott's journals and the second contains the reports of the journeys and scientific work undertaken by Dr. E.A.Wilson and the surviving members of the expedition. Spence 1060. cfNational Maritime Museum I 1104.
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SEEBOHM, Henry [1832-1895].
Siberia In Asia: A Visit To The Valley Of The Yenesay In East Siberia. With Description Of The Natural History, Migration Of Birds, Etc.
London: John Murray, 1882..
8vo. pp. xviii, 304 + 32(ads). with half-title. numerous wood-engraved text illus. folding lithographed map. original pictorial cloth (extremities bit frayed, damage to upper rear cover). First Edition. The author journeyed to the Yenisey River via Krasnoyarsk in March-October, 1877. His narrative includes descriptions of birds, the tundra, the Ostyaks, Dolgans and Tungus, and travel by dogs, reindeer and steamer. Arctic Bib. 15674. Nerhood 327. Casey Wood 561.
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[SHACKLETON, Sir Ernest Henry [1874-1922] & Members of the 'Nimrod' Expedition].
Aurora Australis.
[Auckland, N.Z.: SeTo Publishing, 1988]..
4to. unpaginated. illus. title & 10 other plates. uncut loose sheets bound with green twine in leather-backed 3-ply wooden covers. laid into matching 2-piece wooden box, the upper cover attached with green twine & with 2 leather labels, blind-stamped with title & printer's device of 2 penguins. Fine copy. lacking the accompanying 24-page booklet containing the history and background to the work. Facsimile Edition, Limited to 375 numbered copies plus 20 'hors commerce', this copy unnumbered, of the first book produced in the Antarctic. Devised by Shackleton to occupy his crew's time and maintain their spirits during the dark days in cramped quarters of the 1907-09 Nimrod British Antarctic Expedition's overwintering on Cape Royds in April-July, 1908, Aurora Australis consisted of ten pieces of poetry and prose written by various expedition team members and was illustrated with eleven lithographs and etchings executed by George Marston. Approximately 80 copies were printed by Ernest Joyce and Frank Wild, both of whom had undertaken short printing courses prior to their departure with the firm of Sir J.Causton & Sons, Ltd. (Causton & Sons had supplied the printing equipment and paper used on the expedition). The books were then bound by Bernard Day from the crates used for provisions. This facsimile is based on the original copy held by the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand (our copy without the stenciling 'ULIENNE SOUP' on the inside back cover). See Spence 1095.
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SHACKLETON, Sir E[rnest] H[enry] [1874-1922].
The Heart Of The Antarctic Being The Story Of The British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909.With An Introduction By Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc. An Account Of The First Journey To The South Magnetic Pole By Professor T.W.Edgeworth David, F.R.S.
Philadelphia: J.B.Lippincott Company, 1909..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. liii, [1], 365, [1]; xvi, 450, [1]. with half-titles. 3 partly coloured folding maps & 2 panoramas on 1 folding sheet in rear pocket, 2 photogravure frontis., 12 colour plates, numerous b/w plates & text illus. original silver-stamped decorative cloth, t.e.g. (recased, spine & extremities rubbed & bit frayed). First American Edition of the account of Shackleton's famous first expedition on board the Nimrod. The explorers passed the winter of 1908 in McMurdo Sound, and in the fall a party accomplished the first ascent of the volcanic Mount Erebus and surveyed its various craters. In the spring and summer of 1908-09, three sledging parties left winter quarters. One, travelling via a route along the newly discovered Great Beardmore Glacier, set a record for the farthest south, reaching 88?23'S, Shackleton deciding to turn back within only 97 miles of the pole rather than risk the lives of his men. Another which included Sir Douglas Mawson reached the South Magnetic Pole for the first time, and a third surveyed the mountain ranges west of McMurdo Sound. Shackleton was subsequently knighted for his achievements. Spence 1098. cfNational Maritime Museum Cat. I 1099.
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STELLER, Georg Wilhelm [1709-1746].
Beschreibung von dem Lande Kamtschatka... [Edited by Jean-Benoît Scherer].
Frankfurt & Leipzig: Johann Georg Fleischer, 1774.
8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 24, [4], 384, 71, [1]. engraved title vignette, 2 folding engraved maps & 14 engravings on 13 folding sheets. several text illus. & musical notes in the text. woodcut ornaments & initials. A nice fresh copy in contemporary half calf (binding somewhat worn, slight damage to foot of spine, dampstaining to upper margin of some plates). First Edition. Scarce (Howes' 'b' rating). Steller, a German zoologist and botanist, was one of the scientists who participated in Vitus Bering's second expedition, 1734-43, in search of a northern sea route from Russia to North America. One of the largest exploratory expeditions ever undertaken, the Great Northern Expedition accomplished the mapping of most of the Arctic coast of Siberia, much of the northern and northeastern coast of Russia and the Kuril Islands, and discovered Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, the Commander Islands, and Bering Island. The present account of Kamchatka, and the manners and customs of its native inhabitants is based on Steller's wintering in 1740 on the east coast of the peninsula and includes passages relating to Alaska, where Steller and other crew members became the first Europeans to set foot in 1741 at Kayak Island. Steller also survived a winter on Bering Island, Alaska, where many of the crew including Bering died of scurvy, and is noted as the first European naturalist to describe a number of North American plants and animals, including Steller's jay, Steller's eider, Steller's sea eagle, Steller's sea lion, and Steller's sea cow, which would be hunted to extinction by Europeans within thirty years. Prefixed to the Steller's account is a life of Steller, presumably written by Jean-Benoît Scherer who edited the book, and appended is Gerhard Friedrich Müller's 'Geography and Makeup of Kamchatka compiled in 1737 in Jakutsk from different written and oral sources'. The last thirteen pages contain a vocabulary of the Koriak language. The engraved title vignette shows an active volcano called Kamchatka, several buildings, and a native in his baidar. The folding maps portray Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands while the folding plates depict Awatscha Bay, the ships St. Peter and St. Paul at anchor, Okhotsk harbour, the volcano, a settlement on the Kamchatkan coast, the interior of a Kamchatkan winter hut, cooking and fish-curing outside a Kamchatkan summer hut, three figurines of Kamchatkan gods, three portraits of a shaman, and the Kamchatkan method of starting a fire. Howes S-934 ('b'). Lada-Mocarski 21. Wickersham 5827. Not in Arctic Bib, JCB or Sabin although mentioned in note to Sabin 91218.
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SUTHERLAND, Peter C[ormack] [1822-1900].
Journal Of A Voyage In Baffin's Bay And Barrow Straits, In The Years 1850-1851.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, And Longmans, 1852..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. lii, 506 + 30(ads); vii, 363, ccxxxiii, [1]. 2 folding coloured lithographed maps, 6 lithographed plates (4 coloured) & numerous wood-engravings in the text (incl. 10 topographical sketches, some full-page). original blind-stamped cloth (spines repaired, new endpapers, cloth bit discoloured & corners & edges slightly frayed, some light foxing to plates & dampmark to one corner of one frontis.). First Edition. Sutherland served as surgeon-naturalist on Capt. William Penny's Franklin search expedition of 1850-51. The Lady Franklin and Sophia sailed from Aberdeen through Davis Strait to the west coast of Greenland, through Baffin Bay, Lancaster Sound to Cornwallis Island. The party wintered there at Assistance Harbour and conducted boat and sledge journeys in Barrow Strait and around Wellington Channel on the shores of Devon, Beechey and Cornwallis Islands. The appendix includes the reports of the traveling parties and narratives of the sledge excursions by Sutherland, Capt. A.Stewart, R.A.Goodsir and J.Stuart, admiralty papers, meteorological abstracts and a register of tides, as well as observations on geology by J.W.Salter, zoology, algae and botany (plants collected during the voyage and named by W.J.Hooker). Arctic Bib. 19231 & National Maritime Museum I 905 (both incorrectly calling for 7 plates). Sabin 93693. TPL 3214 (incorrectly calling for more than 2 folding maps).
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TREVOR-BATTYE, Aubyn.
Ice-Bound On Kolguev A Chapter In The Exploration Of Arctic Europe To Which Is Added A Record Of The Natural History Of The Island.
Westminster: Archibald Constable, 1895..
8vo. pp. xxviii, 458. with half-title. 3 folding colour maps, 25 plates (1 double-page) & numerous text illus. partly unopened in original cloth (spine ends chipped, some light foxing). Third Edition of this account of the natural history and topography of Kolguyev Island in the south-eastern Barents Sea off the north-east coast of the Kanin Peninsula in Russia. Trevor-Battye and an assistant spent June to September, 1894 on the island, studying the bird life, botany, and Nenets, whom he called Samoyeds, who brought their reindeer to the island for summer grazing and to trap geese for trade in Russia. Arctic Bib. 17973.
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