The Ice Master; The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
New York: Hyperion, 2000. Illustrated. xiv + 402 pages, 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: Hyperion, (2000). First edition. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
New York: Hyperion, 2000. Illustrated. xiv + 402 pages, 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: Hyperion, (2000). First edition. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
New York: Macmillan, 1882. Translated by Alexander Leslie. 10 lithographed folding maps, some in color. 4 steel engraved portraits, 298 woodcuts. xxvi, 756pp. 8vo, original green cloth, spine ends and edges of corners lightly worn, edges of covers rubbed, corners bumped. New York: Macmillan, 1882. First American Edition Lacks frontispiece portrait of the author. A large folding map has a large tear and is chipped on the margin with no loss of text. Another folding map has a chipped margin..... More
Paris: Flammarion, 1910. Traduit par Charles Rabot. 105 illustrations. xii, 403pp with text in French. 8vo, handsomely rebound in older 1/2 red morocco over marbled boards with original wrappers bound-in. Paris: Ernest Flammarion, (no date, circa 1910). A very good(+) copy. More
New York: Thames & Hudson, 1996. Extensively illustrated, many in color. 224 pages, 4to, pictorial wrappers. New York: Thames & Hudson, (1996). A near fine copy. More
New York: N. D. C. Hodges, 1891. With notes on its early discovery, on the Eskimo, on its physical geography, geology, and natural history. Several maps, one folding, Illus. 513pp. 8vo, original blue cloth, cloth lightly soiled, corners bumped, small bump to upper edge of front and back covers, endpapers and front flyleaf lightly soiled. New York: N.D.C. Hodges, 1891. First Edition. Author was the noted entomologist. He was a member of two expeditions to Labrador. The first in 1860..... More
London: Methuen, 1895. Tall 12mo, original green cloth. London: Methuen, 1895. vg A novel. Being a continuation of the personal histories of "Pierre and His People" More
New York: Stone & Kimball, 1896. Tales of The Far North. 8vo, green cloth. New York: Stone & Kimball, 1896. More
New York: Appleton, 1877. Chromolithograph Frontis., 94 b/w engravings, 1 double-page map. xxiv, 399pp. + 6pp. of publisher's ads. 8vo, original green cloth, cloth lightly spotted, foxing to margin of Frontis., inner hinge strengthened, first and last blank pages lightly soiled. New York: D. Appleton, 1877. First American Edition Narrative of an expedition to Franz Joseph Land and Novaya Zemlya. Internally a tight, bright copy. More
London: Henry Hughs, 1784. Engraved frontispiece in first volume, both title pages with engraved vignettes, 23 full-page b/w plates, 1 folding. 2 volumes (lacking, as usual, the 3rd volume supplement published in 1787). Short 4to, contemporary speckled calf with ornate gilt spines (joints starting; pages generally clean but cropped close at fore-edge; plates are somewhat toned with offseting on facing pages). London: Printed by Henry Hughs, 1784-1785. A good usable copy of this classic book. The work praised by Cuvier..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. Several Illus. 106pp. 8vo, 1/2 black cloth, d.w. Boston: Beacon Press, (1996). Fine Presentation copy from the author to Shirley Hazzard. Laid in is an autographed note signed by the author to Shirley (Hazzard). More
Stockholm: Eklund, 1871. Illustrated at rear with 21 fine lithographic plates, and 14 woodcuts in the text. 146pp of text. Small oblong 4to (measures 11 x 7.5 inches), in original purple cloth with a large gold image of a reindeer pulling a man in a boat (edgeworn and with faded spine; stain on cover which is also detached but present). Stockholm: P. B. Eklund, 1871. Reprint in reduced format of the 1866 original. A good copy with only light foxing..... More
New York: Viking, 2003. Illustrated. xxv + 452 pages, 8vo, two-toned boards, d.w. (New York): Viking, (2003). A fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. More
Philadelphia: American Phiosophica Society, 1961. Illustrated. Printed i double column, 4to, pictorial cloth. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1961. Very good (+). Includes a documented biography and transcription of the artist- naturalist's records of the scientific expeditions to the American West, Antarctica, and the South Pacific, notes, bibliog, & index. 77 illustrations showing his paintings & drawings. Previous owners inscription on the half-title. More
115pp. 8vo, pr. wrs.; (spine worn and crudely repaired with tape, lacks map and illus., corners of wrs. chipped). London: E. Allom, (1930). Survey of the Arctic by the Officers of the British Polar Exhibition, 1930. More
New York: Dutton, 1978. many color plates. square 4to, cloth, d.w. lightly dust soiled, N.Y., (1978). A very good copy. More
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. Illustrated in color and in black and white. ix, 258 pages. Wide 8vo, glossy pictorial wrappers (edgeworn). Seattle: University of Washington Press, (2007). Page edges spotted/worn -- internally clean and tight. Very good. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Lightly illustrated in b/w. 269 pages. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1998). First American edition. A very good copy with light foxing to outer page edges; in a very good wrapper--but flaps glued to pastedowns. More
New York: Walker, 1972. Illustrated. 285 pages, 8vo, green cloth, price-clipped d.w. (laminate crinkled). New York: Walker and Company, (1972). A very good copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. More
Transl. by Cecile Lund and Jules Bernard. 86 plates. large folding map. 354pp. 8vo, pr. wrs. Paris, n.d., (ca. 1924). Presentation copy by the translators. More
Washington: Robert Luce, 1973. 320 pages. 8vo, blue cloth, dust wrapper, price clipped. Washington: Robert Luce, (1973). A very good(+) copy, page edges slightly foxed, boards a little spotted and owners gift inscription in pen on free front end paper, in a very good(+) dust wrapper. More
illus. 8vo, cloth. New York, 1954. 1950-1 whaling expedition in the South Atlantic. More
Containing a Variety of Facts, Observations, and Discoveries, tending to shew, I. The vast Importance of the Countries about Hudson's-Bay to Great Britain, on Account of the extensive Improvements that many be made there in many beneficial Articles of Commerce, particularly in the Furs and in the Whale and Seal Fisheries. And, II. The interested Views of the Hudson's bay Company; and the absolute Necessity of laying open the Trade, and making it the Object of National Encouragement, as the..... More
New York: Greenwood Press, 1969. Including the Reports of James Clark Ross...and the Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole. 6 maps, 1 folding. 44 plates. 2 Vols. 4to, brown cloth, cloth on both volumes lightly soiled, otherwise very good. New York: Greenwood Press, 1969. "The results of the voyage, remarkable for the length of time spent in the ice, were the survey of the peninsula since known as Boothia, of a great part of King William Land, of the Gulf..... More
New York: Henry Holt, 2001. Illus. 8vo, 1/2 maroon cloth, d.w. New York: Henry Holt, (2001). Near Fine. More
New York: Citadel Press, 2007. Illustrated. 431 pages. 8vo, 1/2 tan cloth, d.w. (New York): Citadel Press, (2007). Near fine in near fine dust wrapper. More
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