Hull: [John Ross], 1833. Original Manuscript. Single loose sheet. Single sheet measuring 10.5 x 8 inches (folded, 5.25 x 8 inches) written on front panel only. Two old horizontal creases (presumably to allow fitting in envelope), now mellowed. Just a hint of age-toning, else Near Fine. Text of note reads.....
New York: William Burgess, 1832. Hardcover. 16mo., (7 1/4" x 5 1/4"), Pp. xii, 228. Half-title engraving is the title page from 1827 first edition. Illustrated with 12 engravings by V. Balch. Plate at page 120 bound upside down. Quarter leather over marbled boards, red leather title label lettered in.....
Philadelphia: E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1836. First American Edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. Pp. 4 of publisher advertising, viii, [9] - 456. Illustrated with a fold-out map tipped in to the title page. Appendices. Publisher's blue cloth backstrip over brown paper covered boards, printed lettering piece mounted to the.....
London: The Argonaut Press, 1938. First Thus. Hardcover. Two volumes. 4to. Pp. cxxx, 166; 291. Frontis. black & white reproduction of a portrait of Martin Frobisher. Preface, introduction, and notes by the editor, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Illustrated with black & white illustrations, maps, and facsimiles, some of them fold-out. Bibliography. Index.....
(Toronto): The Arctic History Press, (1978). Limited Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Pp. 549, plus 25 pages of maps to rear. Illustrated with black & white maps, including a fold-out map housed in pocket inside rear cover. Bibliography. Index. Bound in padded faux leather; cover and spine lettered in gilt. A trace.....
Brussels: M. Weissenbruch S. A., n.d. First Edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. Pp. 69; 295; 189. French language. Illustrated with black & white photographs, maps and diagrams. Coated paper. Bound in navy blue cloth, lettering stamped in silver. Book 1 Instruments et Méthodes d'observations; Book 2 Données tabulées; Book 3 Traitements.....
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 314. Endpaper maps. Bound in green cloth with blue lettering stamped on cover and spine, light toning to spine. Inscribed by the author's wife, Frances Flaherty, in the year of publication. Uncommon thus. Frances Hubbard was married to Flaherty.....
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New York: Julian Messner, (1953). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Translated from the Danish by Johan Hambro. 8vo. Pp. 442. Index. Map endpapers. Illustrated. Gray cloth lettered and illustrated in black. In illustrated dust jacket, $5 price present. Pencil notes and marginalia by McBride, creases to corners.....
London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1864. First Edition. Full leather. Two volumes. 8vo. Pp. xvi, 324; xii, 352. All edges gilt. New marbled pastedowns and endpapers. With 100 illustrations, maps, one folding. Bound in full green morocco, spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt with gilt decorated compartments. The.....
London: Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1865. Early Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. x, [2], 547. Frontis. colored illustration of a sled dog team with tissue guard. Illustrated with color plates, black & white illustrations and maps, including a map housed within rear pastedown pocket. Appendix. Bound in decorated green cloth.....
np: Privately printed, 1946. Limited Edition. Leatherbound in slipcase. 8vo. Pp. 158. Frontis. portrait photo. Illustrated with a route map of Germany and Denmark. Dark green crush grain leather, spine titles and cover illustration stamped in gilt, borders in blind, decorated endpapers, AEG. Title page signed and hand numbered 83.....
New York: Henry Schuman, Inc., (1952). First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Large 8vo. Pp. xiii, 369. Frontis. b&w photo. Illustrated with maps and numerous b&w photo reproductions. Black & white photo illustrated cloth covered boards, illustrated endpapers, top edge dyed black: toning to leaf trimmed edges. In the photo.....
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd, (1937). H. G. Ponting, et al. (photography). Early Reprint. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 317, [3], followed by publisher ades. With 11 maps and diagrams, three folding. Illustrated with 16 plates, and with 11 schedules and lists. Glossary. Three appendices. Index. Bound in publisher's green.....
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Pp. 128. Frontis. b&w photo reproductions. Illustrated with many additional b&w reproductions of photos, drawings and sketches on coated paper; plus two full color lithographs with tissue guards. Dark brown publisher's cloth, cover titles stamped in gilt, blind stamped borders.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1912). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pp. xx, 200. Frontis. b&w photo portrait with tissue guard. Illustrated with six additional b&w photo reproductions on coated paper. Introduction by Booker T. Washington, foreword by Robert E. Peary. Appendices. Copyright page states Published February, 1912. Publisher's.....
Oslo: Dreyer Forlag, nd ca.1950]. Stated Private Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Pp. 232. Top edges gilt.Frontis. black & white drawing by Fridtjof Nansen. Illustrated throughout with black & white and color photography, illustrations, and maps. Bound in navy-blue leather with gilt lettering stamped on spine and gilt sailing ship illustration stamped.....
Glocester: R. Raikes for T. Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty, 1764. First Edition. Leather bound. 4to. Pp. (4), vii, 280, (8). English Translation by James Grieve. With all five plates accounted for, with four of them folding, and the two folding maps. Index. Bound in three-quarter brown morocco over contemporary.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. viii, 551. Frontis. black & white reproduction of a portrait of Sir Alexander MacKenzie by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Illustrated with several fold-out maps. Bibliography. Index. Bound in navy-blue cloth; spine lettered in gilt; MacKenzie's gilt signature facsimile.....
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802. Three-quarter leather. 8vo. Two volumes. Pp. xiv, 290; 332. Frontis. portrait of the author, with tissue guard. With three large fold-out maps. Marbled endpapers. Rebound ca. 1920s in three-quarter brown leather over brown cloth boards, gilt lettering stamped on spine, raised bands. Mild.....
London / Edinburgh: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green / Oliver & Boyd, 1829. First Edition. Leatherbound. 8vo. Pp. xii, 530; x, [2], 556. Two vols. Illustrated (vol I) with a fold-out map. Appendix (vol 2). 1834 gift inscription on a blank preliminary. Bound in burgundy pebbled morocco with blind.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First American Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. 8vo. Pp. x, [4], 587; x, [2], 714pp, [4pp. ads]. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. All four maps present in pockets. Contains "About 120 Full-page and Numerous Text Illustrations, 16 Colored Plates in Facsimile from Dr. Nansen's Own.....
London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1886. Wilhelm Meyer's Xylographic Institute (engravings). Revised. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pp. 413. [4], 413, followed by 322 pp. of publisher's titles. Frontis. photo port. of Nordenskiold, with tissue guard. With 186 intertextual and full-plate wood cuts, after photos. Bound in dark green cloth.....
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1879. First edition. Hardcover. Pp. xlix, 644. Illustrated with 2 steel-engraved portraits, over 70 wood engravings, photo engravings, and heliotypes, 8 sketches of regional coastlines drawn by the Inuit, 13 maps, with the large folding map in the rear pocket. Dark green cloth, spine lettered.....
Chicago, Philadelphia, & Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, (1935). First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. x, 254. Foreword by Russell Owen. Illustrated with black & white photographs on glossy stock. Endpaper maps. Bound in green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, black lettering and illustration of a sled.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1898. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. lxxx, 521; xiv, 625 pp. Top edges gilt. Almost 800 b/w illustrations, folding map. Blue cloth, lettered in white. Some fading to spines, minor foxing to prelims.Gift inscription on front free endpaper of first volume from Vilhjalmur Stefansson.....