London: William Faden, 1794. Map. Engraving with modern hand coloring. Image measures 15 1/2" x 26 1/2" This important and scarce 1794 map of the North Pacific covers the northwest coast of America including Alaska east as far as the Hudson Bay and the northeast coast of Asia including Kamchatka. The map is from the second edition of the official account of Captain James Cook's Third Voyage in the HMS Revolution between 1778 and 1779. The route of his journey..... More

Venice: Vincenzo Coronelli. Map. Engraving with hand color. Sheet measures 19.5" x 26.25". This lovely map of the Eastern Hemisphere was issued by Vincenzo Coronelli in circa 1691. The map covers the continents of Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia in detail and includes the discoveries made by Abel Tasman in Australia. The map is cartographically based on Coronelli's large gores from 1688, which were themselves derived from the manuscript globes constructed for Louis XI in 1683. An early mapping of..... More

Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991. With b/w photos throughout. 222 pages. 8vo, black cloth, d.w. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, (1991). Ex-library copy with small stamps and partially removed labels from front & rear endpapers, else a very good solid copy in a very good dust wrapper. More

illus. 8vo, cloth. (spine end torn). New York, (1958). Study of the native animals of the Arctic. More

Frankfurt: Theodore De Bry, 1609. Map. Uncolored copperplate engraving. Sheet measures 12" x 8". This interesting map of Novaya Zemlya or Nova Zembla in Dutch, an archipelago in the Arctic Sea located just north of Russia. The map, centered on the Kara Strait (here noted as Fretum Nassau or Nassau Straits), covers the southern tip of the Novaya Zemlya and the northern tip of Vaygach Island. The map beautifully renders the topography and the sea, with seven Dutch ships making..... More

New York: Reynal, 1941. Illustrated, some color. Thick 8vo, tan & blue cloth (spine sunned and with a small stain on top edge of some pages). New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1941). A very good(-) solid copy. More

Amsterdam: J. Covens et C. Mortier. Map. Engraving with original hand outline. Image measures 18 1/8" x 17 7/8". Beautifully detailed map of the Northern Hemisphere, circa 1730. One of the most accurate depictions of the world at the time, Delisle correctly depicts California as a peninsula, though much of Eastern Asia, Russia and North America is yet unexplored. Toning and creasing to left and right edges. A few small tears to edges. Full original margins. Guillaume Delisle (1675-1726) was..... More

Berlin: Reimer, 1904. 21 folding maps and plates, 400 text illustrations. 668pp. thick 4to, gray cloth backed pictorial boards; (ex-lib). Berlin, 1904. First edition. Very good. "valuable scientific results were obtained." J.N.L. Baker. More

Recit d'un Voyage fait en 1856, sur le Yacht le "Foam" en Islande, a Jan Mayen et au Spitzberg... Traduit...par T.P. Bedard. mounted photo frontis. portrait, wood engraved text illus. 320pp. 8vo, 1/2 calf. Montreal, 1876. This French Canadian edition of Lord Dufferin's arctic travels not listed in NUC. More

folding map of Hudson's Bay and the Canadian Arctic. 9 engraved plates, 5 folding. xxviii, 336pp. small 8vo, cont. calf; (spine ends worn, inner hinges strengthened). London: Whitridge, 1748. "Pt. 1 is a synopsis of twenty-three English voyages to discover the Northwest passage...pt. 2, an account of a voyage under Captains Moor and Francis Smith, financed by private subscription, with (Arthur) Dobbs the leading subscriber; the author, also a subscriber, was a hydrographer, surveyor and mineralogist on the expedition which..... More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968. Edited by Edmund Carpenter. Charmingly illustrated in minimal black and white. Thin, oblong 8vo, orange pictorial cloth, dust wrapper (some tears and toning). New York: Simon & Schuster, (1968). Second printing. Fine in very good(-) dust wrapper. More

New York: Grove, 2001. Illus. 8vo, white cloth, d.w. lightly soiled. New York: Grove Press, (2001). More

Color Frontis. 480pp. 12mo, orig. cloth; (head of spine and edges of corners worn, previous owner's notations on front flyleaf, some light foxing). N.Y.: D.W. Evans, 1860. More