The Voyage of the Jeannette. The Ship and Ice Journals
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888. 8vo. 911 pages. Folding map in pocket at rear, plates. Original decorated cloth. Early single-volume reprint after the first edition of 1883.
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A Yacht Voyage. Letters From High Latitudes
New York: R. Worthington, 1882. 8vo. 268 pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plates. Original gilt- and black-decorated brown cloth. Early reprint of Lord Dufferin's classic tale of travels in the north.
Biography of Elisha Kent Kane
Philadelpiha: Childs and Peterson, 1858. 8vo. 416 pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait and engraved illustrated title page and 4 full page illustrations; 2 pages of publisher's advertisements in front, 2 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. Original embossed cloth. FIRST EDITION. A complete biography of the prolific Arctic explorer and writer.....
Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55
Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1857-56. 2 volumes. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Profusely illustrated (300 engravings including 22 plates); 2 folding maps. Original cloth (varying colors), gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Augustus Seward (signature on title), presumably the career Army officer (1826-1876), son of William H. Seward and Adeline Seward.....
The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, A Personal Narrative
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. 8vo. 552 pages. Mezzotint frontispiece by John Sartain, map of "Baffin's Bay", 12 engraved and lithographed plates, numerous wood engraved vignettes. Lacks the folding map. Original cloth, stamp-embossed, gilt voyage motif within stamped lozenge. FIRST EDITION, second issue with 1854 title-page.
The United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. A Personal Narrative
Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856. 8vo. 552 pages. illustrations in text, plates. Contmporary half russia, marbled boards. Provenance: The Explorer's Club (their bookplate and withdrawal note). New edition, published the same year as the publication of the account of Kane's second Grinnell expedition.
Finding the North Pole: Dr. Cook's Story of His Discovery, April 21, 1909 & The Story of Commander Peary's Discovery, April 6, 1909 Together with The Marvelous Record of Former Arctic Expeditions
Philadelphia: Percival Supply Co., 1909. 8vo. 448 pages. Plates. Original decorated cloth. FIRST EDITION.
Farthest North
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. 2 volumes, 8vo. Four folding chromolithographed maps in pockets in volume one. Engraved frontispiece by Johan Nordhagen, 16 color plates, tissue guards. Original decorated cloth, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION (the first edition in Norwegian was published the previous year). Arctic.....
Arctic Adventure By Sea and Land From the Earliest Date to the Last Expeditions in Search of Sir John Franklin
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1857. 8vo. 480 pages. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; folding map; several plates and text illustrations. Original blind stamped cloth. FIRST EDITION. Chronicles the search of Sir John Franklin in the arcitc, with the contextualization of several other Arctic expeditions during the same time period.....
The Heart of the Antarctic
London: William Heinemann, 1909. Two volumes, 8vo. Three maps, pamorama in rear pocket, 12 colored and 257 black-and-white plates, numerous illustrations and diagrams. Original blue pictorial cloth, front covers with large silver blocks, spines gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Provenance: Eric A. Bingen (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, trade issue, of.....
The Heart of the Antarctic
London: William Heinemann, 1909. Two volumes, 8vo. Three maps, pamorama in rear pocket, 12 colored and 257 black-and-white plates, numerous illustrations and diagrams. Original blue pictorial cloth, front covers with large silver blocks, spines gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Provenance: 1910 gift inscription on front free endpapers. FIRST EDITION.....
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