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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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Classic travel literature View picture(s) 3 HEARNE, Samuel. Voyage du Fort du Prince de Galles dans la Baie de Hudson, a l'Océan Nord, Entrepris par ordre de la Compagnie de la Baie de Hudson, dans les années 1769, 1770, 1771 et 1772, et exécuté par terre, pour la découverte d'un passage au Nord-Quest. Traduit de l'Anglais. Paris, Patris, An VII, (=1798). 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. With large folding map of the Hudson Bay, engraved by Blanchard, and 8 folding engraved plans and views. LVIII, 373, (1 blank); 332, XXIX, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Northern Passage  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With a description of the Russian settlement in California View picture(s) 4 KOTZEBUE, Otto von. Neue Reise um die Welt, in den Jahren 1823, 24, 25 und 26. Weimar, Wilhelm Hoffmann, 1830. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. Contemporary cloth. With 2 hand-coloured etched frontispieces, folding engraved chart of the Bay Mattaway near Tahiti, and 2 large folding engraved charts of groups of islands in the Pacific. XXII, 191; 176; 177, 34 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [North]  America [South]  Cartography  Chile  Circumnavigation  Northern Passage  Philippines  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Children's book on the first Dutch voyage in search of the Northern Passage View picture(s) 5 LOUWERSE, Pieter. Kloek volk met kloeken moed, of de overwintering der Nederlanders op Nova-Zembla in de jaren 1596-1597. Geschiedkundig verhaal voor 't jonge Nederland. Leiden, D. Noothoven van Goor, (1873). Orig. richly gilt and blind-stamped cloth. With 8 full-page chromo-lithographed plates. VIII, 196 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Northern Passage  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With engraved plate of Eskimo portraits View picture(s) 6 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. Blue half morocco over half boards. 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 after 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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On the Hudson's Bay Territories; presentation copy by the author View picture(s) 7 MARTIN, Robert Montgomery. The Hudson's Bay Territories and Vancouver's island, with an exposition of the chartered rights, conduct, and policy of The Honorable Hudson's Bay Corporation. London, T. and W. Boone (printed by T. Brettell, London), 1849. 8vo. Original brown blind stamped gilt cloth. With a large folding map by James Wild, coloured in outlines, and a half-page steel-engraving of an 'Indian village at the Red River settlement', on p. VIII. VII, 175 pp. [added: [26] pp.]. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Canada  Economy  Native Americans  Northern Passage  Pacific  Trade  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) 8 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) 9 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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Adaptation for children of the account of the second voyage of captain John Ross View picture(s) 10 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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Poem on Nova Zembla View picture(s) 11 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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German translation of one of the most important voyages of the 18th and 19th centuries View picture(s) 12 VANCOUVER, George. Reisen nach dem nördlichem Theile der Südsee während der Jahre 1790 bis 1795. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen begleitet von Joh. Friedr. Wilh. Herbst. Berlin, Johann Wilhelm Schmidt for the Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1799-1800. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with red and green morocco title labels lettered in gold, marbled boards, yellow painted edges; preserved in slipcase. With large folding engraved map (52 x 42 cm) by Ferd. Sprögel (Berlin 1800) of the North-western coast of America "... zu der Reise  des Capit. George Vancouver in den Jahre 1792, 1793 and 1794 verjüngt gezeichnet von D.F. Sotzmann 1800: with inset of the eastern coast of Asia from the Philippines to Kamchatka in the north "... der Entdeckungen, die im Jahre 1787 in den Chinesischen und Tartarischen Meeren ... von den französichen Fregatten La Boussole und l'Astrolabe gemacht worden sind zur Reisebeschreibung des La Perouse, im Jahre 1800 verjüngt gezeichnet von D.F. Sotzmann"; and 2 folding aquatints: "Dorf des Tscheslakis in der Johnstonstrasse" and "Ein wüstes indisches Dorff an König Georg III Sund, in Neuholland". (2), 386; VIII, 406 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Americana  China  Discovery & Exploration  Northern Passage  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Cook's third and final voyage of discovery View picture(s) 13 [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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