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The tragic faith of Willem Barentsz in full colour View picture(s) 1 CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich. Tafereelen uit het Noorden. 2e druk. 's-Grav., S. de Visser, 1828. Sm.8vo. Orig. boards. With 8 illustrations on 4 engraved plates, all nicely coloured by hand. 143, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Arctic  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Northern Passage  Russia  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Exciting stories about the voyage of Willem Barendsz and the wintering of four Russian sailors at Spitsbergen View picture(s) 2 CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich. Tafereelen uit het Noorden; voorgesteld in de Noordelijke ontdekkingsreis van Jacob Heemskerk en Willem Barendsz; benevens de merkwaardige lotgevallen van vier Russische bootslieden, op Spitsbergen. Naar het Hoogduitsch. 's-Gravenhage, S. de Visser, 1825. Small 8vo. Original boards. With 8 illustrations on 4 engraved plates, all finely coloured by hand. 143, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Children's Books  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Education  Northern Passage  Russia  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Detailed early description on Newfoundland and Labrador View picture(s) 3 CHAPPELL, Lt. Edward. Voyage of His Majesty's ship Rosamond to Newfoundland and the Southern coast of Labrador of which countries no account has been published by any British traveller since the reign of Queen Elisabeth. London, R. Wates for J. Mawman, 1818. 8vo. Contemporary English diced Russia calf, double fillets along the edges of both sides, ribbed spine with black title label. With an engraved frontispiece, 1 folding engraved map coloured in outlines, 2 full-page engraved plates, and 5 engravings in the text. [10], XIX, [1], 270, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Americana  Arctic  Canada  Eskimo  Native Americans  Shipwrecks  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Description of Greenland by the founder of its capital View picture(s) 4 EGEDE, Hans Poulsen. Description et Histoire Naturelle du Groenland. Copenhagen and Geneva, Brothers C. and A. Philibert, 1763. 8vo. Modern wrappers. With loosely inserted engraved folding map of Greenland and 10 engraved folding plates. [4], XXVIII, [4], 171, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Greenland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A voyage to Hudson Bay in search of the Northwest Passage View picture(s) 5 ELLIS, Henry. Reize naar de baai van Hudson, ter ontdekkinge van eenen Noord-wester doortogt, gedaan in de jaaren 1746. en 1747. Leiden, Elie Luzac jun., 1750. 8vo. Contemporary half red roan, spine ribbed and gilt with black title label. With title printed in red and black, engraved vignette on title, large folding engraved map (18 x 44.5 cm), and 9 engraved plates, mostly folding by N. van Frankendaal, with captions in French and Dutch. XXXII, 440 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Alaska  America, North  Arctic  Canada  Cartography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The adventurous life of a black abolitionist View picture(s) 6 EQUIANO, Olaudah. Merkwaardige levensgevallen van Olaudah Equiano of Gustavus Vassa, den Afrikaan. Door hem zelven beschreeven. Amsterdam, Pieter Holsteyn, 1790. 8vo. 19th-century cloth-backed marbled boards. With hand-coloured aquatint portrait. [16], 365, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Africa  America [Caribbean Islands]  Arctic  Enlightenment  Greenland  Slavery  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With engraved plate of Eskimo portraits View picture(s) 7 LYON, Captain G.F. A brief narrative of an unsuccessful attempt to reach Repulse Bay, through Sir Thomas Rowe's 'Welcome' in his Majesty's ship Griper. London, John Murray, 1825. 8vo. Half blue morocco over half boards. Illustrated with a folding engraved map of Hudson's Strait and Welcome Passage, an engraved diagram, an engraved plate of Eskimo portraits, and 5 engraved views, all drawn by Lyon. XVI, 198, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Arctic  Northern Passage  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early description of Greenland View picture(s) 8 MARTENS, Friedrich. Viaggio di Spizberga o' Gronlanda fatto da Federico Martens Amburghese l' anno 1671. Ove si descrivono que' remotissimi paesi del settentrione sotto gli 81. gradi, ne' quali soggiorna il Sole per lo spazio di tre Mesi intieri, con una copiosa relazione di quell'agghiacciato clima, e de gli uccelli, quadrupedi, pesci, e piante rare, che vi nascono, colla descrizione delle balene, e lor pesca. Portato nuovamente dalla lingua Alemana nell'Italiana dal Sig. Iacopo Rautenfels gentiluomo Curlandese. Al moltr'illustre, e molto rev. sig. il Signor D. Domenico Bertuzzini. Bologna, Giacomo Monti, 1680. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, ribbed spine with title lettered in gold, green sprinkled edges. With woodcut initials, tailpieces, one woodcut illustration in text of a whale, a crab, and 2 folding plates, one with illustrations of the capture of whales, plants, birds and fishes. 264 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Botany  Cartography  Whaling  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Richly illustrated French edition of the account of the famous Polar expedition of Fridtjof Nansen View picture(s) 9 NANSEN, Fridtjof. Vers le Pôle. Traduit et abrégé par Charles Rabot. Paris, Flammarion, [1897]. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. With 200 wood-engraved maps, views, plates and illustrations, including frontispiece portrait of the author. VIII, 424 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Arctic  Discovery & Exploration  French  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With the signature of the author, one of the greatest explorers of the Arctic View picture(s) 10 PARRY, William Edward. Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-20, in his Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper. With an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations. Second edition. London, William Clowes for John Murray, 1821. Large 4to. Contemporary calf with richly gilt decorated covers, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers and edges; together with the added vol. preserved in a modern slip-case. With 4 large folding charts by J. Walker of (1) The track of the ships Hecla and Griper from the Orkneys to Melville Island, North Georgia (1819/1820), (2)  of the discoveries & route of the ships in search of the North-West passage (after John Buchnan, with an extra folding part pasted to the chart), (3) of a part of the western coast of Baffins Bay (1820), and (4) of the inlet called the River Clyde, West coast of Baffins Bay (1820); 2 full-page maps by J. Walker, 9 full-page lithographed plates by W. Westtall after F.W. Beechey and Hoppner (1) of the positions of the ships in summer and in winter harbour, a bull and eskimo's; and 5 engraved plates of coastlines by I. Clark after F.W. Beechey; many figures and printed tables in the text, of which 1 folding. (8), XXIX, 310, (2), CLXXIX pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Discovery & Exploration  English  Northern Passage  Pacific  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of Phipps's expedition to the North Pole View picture(s) 11 PHIPPS, Constantine John. A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command 1773. London, printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols for J. Nourse, 1774. Large 4to (29 x 22 cm). Contemporary marbled calf. With 16 large engraved double-page and folding plates and maps, and many tables in the text. VIII, 253 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Cartography  Discovery & Exploration  Northern Passage  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Well-illustrated work on the Dutch whale- and herring-fishery in the Northern Seas and Greenland View picture(s) 12 RESTE, Bernard de. Histoire des pêches, des découvertes et des établissemens des Hollandois dans les mers du Nord: ouvrage traduit du Hollandois par les soins du Gouvernement, enrichi de notes & orné de cartes & de figures. Paris, Nyon the Elder & Sons, Widow of Nyon, 1791-1800. 3 volumes. 8vo. 19th-century green half shagreen, gold-tooled spine, sides with crowned gilt initials 'C.L.' With 28 engraved plates and maps (21 folding and 7 full-page). XXXVI, 432; 464; [4], 378 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Fishing  Greenland  Ichthyology  Natural History  Netherlands  Whaling  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In search of Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition View picture(s) 13 RICHARDSON, John. Arctic searching expedition: a journal of a boat-voyage through Rupert's land and the Arctic Sea, in search of the discovery ships under command of Sir John Franklin. With an appendix on the physical geography of North America. London, Longman, Brown, Freen and Longmans, 1851. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt with two red morocco title labels lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. Volume one: coloured lithographed frontispiece "Kutchin winter lodges" and 8 full-page coloured lithographed plates of fossil leaves (2), and of members of the Kutchin tribe (6), all designed by A.H. Murray and lithographed by M. & N. Hanhart, folding map (410 x 505 mm) of British North America coloured in blue and pink and engraved by S. Hall, 8 illustrations in text; vol. 2: coloured frontispiece of Cree wigwams in summer designed by Lieutenant E.N. Kendall and lithographed by M. & N. Hanhart and many tables in text. VIII, 413, (1); VII, 416 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Cartography  Discovery & Exploration  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Adaptation for children of the account of the second voyage of captain John Ross View picture(s) 14 ROSS, John. De reizen en lotgevallen van kapitein John Ross, op zijne ontdekkings togten naar de Noordpools gewesten. Voor jonge lieden. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald. Amsterdam, Ten Brink & De Vries, 1837. 8vo. Later half cloth. With title, 6 plates (including frontispiece), folding map of the Arctic region, all lithographed. VIII, 247, [1 blank], pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Children's Books  Eskimo  Greenland  Northern Passage  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Forshadowing the Linnaean reform in plant systematics View picture(s) 15 RUDBECK, Olof, junior. Nora Samolad eller Uplysste Lapland / Nora samolad sive Laponia illustrata. Upsala, 1701. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine. With an engraved frontispiece, woodcut folding plate, engraved map of the Baltic Sea in the form of an old man upside-down, and a full-page woodcut of a bird. [32], 79 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Botany  Cartography  Europe  Natural History  Russia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important early account of Lappish culture View picture(s) 16 SCHEFFER, John. The history of Lapland wherein are shewed the original, manners, habits, marriages, conjurations, &c. of that people. Oxford, At the Theater, sold by George West and Amos Curtein, 1674. Folio. Contemporary calf. With engraved frontispiece, folding engraved map, and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text (one repeated on the title-page). [4], 147, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Arctic  Ethnography  Lapland  Scandinavia  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Poem on Nova Zembla View picture(s) 17 TOLLENS, Hendrik. Die Holländer auf Nova Zembla, Gedicht. Aus dem Holländischen von F.M. Duttenhofer. Mit einem erklärenden Anhang für die Jugend, hrsg. von P.W. Quack. Stuttgart, Leiden, G. Rümelin, E.J. Brill, 1850. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards. With 50 woodengraved plates with portraits of Heemskerk, Willem Barends etc., costumes, illustrations of rendeer, icebears, whales, etc. including a folding map of Nova Zembla. (6), 111, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Northern Passage  Poetry  Russia  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On icebergs seen by Captain Parry and eruptions of the Vesuvius View picture(s) 18 [CHILDREN'S BOOKS - TRAVEL]. Reizen naar vreemde landen, in het hoekje van den haard. Amsterdam, Gebr. Diederichs, (ca. 1830). Small 4to. Original yellow boards. With 12 double-page aquatint views by W.H. Hoogkamer, 6 in grey colouring and 6 in sepia. 115, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Arctic  Brazil  Children's Books  Dutch  Travel & Voyages  Volcanos  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Cook's third and final voyage of discovery View picture(s) 19 [RICKMAN, John]. Troisieme voyage de Cook, ou journal d'une expédition faite dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud & du Nord, en 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 & 1780. Traduit de l'anglois. Paris, Pissot & Laporte 1782. 8vo. Later vellum-backed marbled boards. With folding engraved frontispiece showing Captain Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay (Hawaii), and a folding engraved chart illustrating the tracks of the Resolution and the Discovery, both made under the direction of Benard. X, 508 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Australia & New Zealand  Cook  Hawaii  Northern Passage  Pacific  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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