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Three years of Arctic service.
GREELY, Adolphus W.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /This United States expedition during the First International Polar Year, based at Fort Conger, Lady Franklin Bay, explored the north coast of Gree...
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Arctic Expedition, 1875-6.
[BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION]Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /One of the most valuable sources for the history of exploration in northern Canada.The Nares expedition, so called after its commander George Nare...
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Antarctica.
KEOUGH, Pat & Rosemary.Original price £1,650.00 - Original price £1,650.00Original price £0.00£1,650.00£1,650.00 - £1,650.00Current price £1,650.00| /Limited edition - signed by the authors. A remarkable work, not only for its size and weight (8.7 kg plus a box of 3.8 kg), but also for its magnif...
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A Second Voyage round the world, in the Years MDCCLXXII, LXXIII, LXXIV, LXXV.
[COOK'S SECOND VOYAGE].Original price £50,000.00 - Original price £50,000.00Original price £0.00£50,000.00£50,000.00 - £50,000.00Current price £50,000.00| /An officer's account - a legendary Cook rarity. The rarest of all the surreptitious accounts of Cook's voyages, issued with a title phrased to misl...
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Viaggio dal mare Atlantico al Pacifico per la via del nord-ouest fatto
FERRER MALDONADO, Lorenzo.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /A superb large copy in contemporary green morocco of the preferred enlarged second edition. Ferrer Maldonado's account of a spurious 1588 voyage t...
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Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Esperance,
SPARRMAN, Anders.Original price £1,000.00 - Original price £1,000.00Original price £0.00£1,000.00£1,000.00 - £1,000.00Current price £1,000.00| /Sparrman's work includes accounts of his travels inland from the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope and as assistant naturalist to Johann Forster...
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Journal du second voyage du capitaine Cook, sur les vaisseaux La Resolution & L'Aventure.
[MARRA, John].Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /Scarce. The French edition of Marras' Journal, possibly translated by Anne Francois Joachim de Fréville. Published anonymously and surreptitiously...
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Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific;
[PARRY FIRST VOYAGE]. PARRY, William Edward.Original price £2,850.00 - Original price £2,850.00Original price £2,850.00£2,850.00£2,850.00 - £2,850.00Current price £2,850.00| /With the rare supplement. The rarely found supplement makes good the omissions from Journal.First edition. 4to., [viii], xxx, [ii half-title], 310,...
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The North Georgia Gazette, and Winter Chronicle.
[PARRY FIRST VOYAGE]. Edward Sabine (editor).Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £400.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00| /The printed record of a weekly newspaper devised by Sabine to uphold morale amongst the crew of Parry's first voyage whilst frozen-in during the A...
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A brief narrative of an unsuccessful attempt to reach Repulse Bay,
LYON, Captain George Francis.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £650.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /Lyon's official account of a search for a Northwest Passage by Hudson Bay. The narrative of the voyage as far as Wager Inlet and Repulse Bay also ...
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A journal of a voyage of discovery to the Arctic regions,
FISHER, Alexander.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £475.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /Journal by an officer on the first expedition commanded by William Parry. Fisher gives especially useful remarks on natural history and ice condit...
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The discovery of the North-West Passage by H.M.S. "Investigator,"
OSBORN, Sherard (editor).Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /The first traversal of the North-west Passage. Even though it was intended as a rescue voyage seeking Franklin survivors, and (by explicit orders) ...
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Arctic Explorations:
KANE, Elisha Kent.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £450.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /'Kane, on board the Advance, was commander of this expedition, which was financed by Grinnell. Franklin was not found; however, much data concerni...
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A True Description of three Voyages by the North-East towards Cathay and China,
DE VEER, Gerrit.Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £400.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00| /De Veer (1570-1598), was a Dutch officer on Willem Barentsz' second and third voyages of 1595 and 1596 respectively, in search of the Northeast Pa...
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Voyage of the Prince Albert
SNOW, William Parker.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £2,750.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /Parker Snow (1817-1895), an eccentric English explorer, was working as a writer in New York when he claimed to have had a paranormal vision of the...
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Narrative of the wreck of the 'Favorite'
NUNN, John.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /'Nunn had joined the crew of the Royal Sovereign on a sealing voyage, which after being chased by pirates down the West African coast arrived at K...
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A selection of papers on
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £400.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00| /In 1873 the Admiralty began planning an expedition to find a route to the North Pole through Smith Sound, the passage between Greenland and Canada...
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Cruises in the Bering Sea.
NIEDIECK, Paul.Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00| /Scarce. 'In his voyage to the Bering Sea, Niedeck split his time between Kamchatka and Alaska. Landing at Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatkan coast, h...
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