Washington, D.C. 1904. Three volumes. Titlepage, two preliminary leaves and forty-eight maps (eight double-page, some colored lithograph); titlepage, contents leaf, plus thirty-seven colored lithograph maps (ten double-page); titlepage plus twenty-five colored lithograph maps (twenty-two double- page). Folio. Antique-style three-quarter leather and marbled boards, preserving original gilt leather cover labels, spines...

New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1908. Two volumes. xiii,[1],335,[1]; ix,[1],397pp., plus frontispieces and two color folding maps. Original cloth, stamped in gilt. Light chipping at head of spine on first volume. Modern address label on front fly leaves. Light foxing to preliminaries, internally clean. Very good. First American edition.....

Oxford. 1960. Twenty-two individually paginated works, some with photographic plates. Original tan cloth, spine gilt. An omnibus volume published by the Oxford University Press, collecting offprints or extracts of twenty-two pamphlets or articles related to an expedition undertaken by the Oxford University Exploration Club. The works were written by participants...

[Various places, including Labrador, Baffin Island, Ellesmere Island, and Greenland. 1921-1925]. Eighty-three silver gelatin photographs, plus four photo postcards, most approximately 3 x 5 inches. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black faux leather, cord-tied photo album. Edges and hinges worn. Photos in corner mounts on black paper supports. Manuscript captions on supports...

London. 1836. x,[2],663pp. plus sixteen plates on India paper and folding map. Thick quarto. Modern three-quarter blue morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Minor rubbing, spine slightly sunned. Minor marginal foxing to plates. Very good. A large paper copy of this major source both in the early exploration of the Far...

Philadelphia. 1865. 144pp. plus four hand-colored plates. 12mo. Publisher's brown embossed cloth, spine gilt. Some rubbing and edge wear. Minor foxing, a few leaves tanned, a couple corner tears. Good. The first American edition of this Ballantyne juvenile. The plates show Arctic explorers fighting a polar bear, a ship stuck...

London. 1781. iv,viii,557,[1]pp., plus *471-*477, plus two maps (one folding), five folding tables, and two plates. Quarto. Contemporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Good. A strange ensemble, but the two articles in the collection of the greatest interest are "The Possibility of approaching the North Pole.....

[Np. nd, ca. 1880s]. 23pp. Large octavo. Self-wrappers. Small nibble from top left corner not affecting text, else good. Traces one of the important Greenland Sagas and its literature.

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley... 1831. Two volumes bound in one. xxi,[3],392pp. plus fourteen plates and three maps (two folding); vii,[1],[393]-742pp. plus nine plates. No errata slip in second volume. Half titles. Quarto. 19th-century polished calf boards with gilt tooled border, handsomely rebacked, spine elaborately gilt, gilt morocco label.....

London: Lovell Reeve, 1855. Two volumes. xx,383pp. plus three folding maps and thirteen plates; [iii]-vii,419pp. plus twenty-four plates (including frontispieces). Large octavo. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. First volume rebacked with original spine laid down, front joint of second volume beginning to split. Institutional bookplate on each.....

Paris. 1854. lvi,414,[1]pp. plus frontispiece and folding map with facsimile letter. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled paper, spine gilt, leather label. Expertly rebacked, preserving original spine. Later bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary gift inscription on half title. Scattered foxing. Very good. First edition of the journal of Joseph Bellot (1826-...

[Ottawa? 1911?]. [8],161pp., with numerous in-text photographic illustrations and three folding maps. Green publisher's cloth, gilt, rebacked, with original spine label laid over. Internally clean. About very good. "Contains a report of a whaling patrol and exploring cruise, 1910-11, compiled from the log, by J. E. Bernier; an account of...

[Nuuk, Greenland: Hinrich Rink, 1862-1946, lacking the years 1884-91, 1894-95, 1901-03]. Eighty-five volumes. Replete with illustrations, many in color. Some issues loose. First volume in original limp patterned cloth. Second volume in cloth-backed printed boards, spine repaired. Third volume in cloth-backed boards, spine worn. Fourth volume with lower half of...