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Bartlett, Robert A.
The Last Voyage of the Karluk: Flagship of Vilhjalmar
Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-16.
Related by her master, Robert A. Bartlett, and set down by Ralph T. Hale.
Boston: Small, Maynard, 1916. 329 pages. Photographs. Maps. Frontispiece.
Good hardcover, spine title slightly faded, edges slightly worn; some foxing.
#27156. $40
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Bartlett, Robert A., by Captain 'Bob'
Bartlett.
Sails over Ice.
Foreword by Lawrence Perry. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. 1st
edition. xii, 301 pages. Photographs. Frontispiece portrait.
The story of the schooner 'Effie M. Morrissey.' Chapters include Codfishing off
Labrador, 1925; North Greenland, 1926; Foxe Channel Section, 1927; Northern
Pacific, 1928; Hollywood in the Arctic; Land of the Lost Eskimos, 1930; The
Greenland Sea, 1931; The Peary Memorial, 1932, and The Strait of Fury and
Hecla, 1933. Good hardcover, covers stained and soiled, stains inside rear
cover. #27157. $50
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Bacon, Walter.
Highway to the Wilderness: A Sojourn Beyond the Arctic Circle.
New York: Vanguard Press, 1961. 189 pages. Index. Maps. Photographs.
An account of living in Lapland, above the Arctic Circle. A fascinating country
of endless nights and endless days, of cold and warmth, of snow and flowers, of
solitude and men. The author, an English electronics engineer, driven by
restlessness, lived among the Lapps for three years with his wife, a Finnish
dentist, and child. - Front dust jacket. Very good hardcover in Very good dust
jacket. #10153. $10
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Bertram, Colin.
Arctic and Antarctic, A Prospect of the Polar Regions.
Cambridge: Heffer, 1958. New edition, revised. 123 pages. Illustrations. Photographs.
Folding map.
A polar scholar assesses transitional stages of polar history & affairs into
the 'modern phase.' Good hardcover in torn dust jacket. #10300. $22.50
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Borchgrevink, C. E. (Carsten
Egeberg).
Magnetic and Meteorological Observations Made by the 'Southern
Cross' Antarctic Expedition, 1898-1900.
London: Royal Society of London, 1902. 4to (large book). 112 pages.
Illustrations. Tables. Folding tables. Frontispiece color map. Contents: Part
I: 'Magnetic Observations,' taken by Louis Bernacchi and W. Colbeck. Reduced by
Charles Chree with the assistance of Louis Bernacchi. Part II: 'Meteorological
Observations,' taken by the staff of the 'Southern Cross,' including Herlof
Kovstad, Nicolas Hanson, H. Evans, A. Tonger, L. Bernacchi, and W. Colbeck.
Reduced under the superintendence of W. N. Shaw, with an Introduction and Notes
by L. Bernacchi. 'Summary of Observations Contained in the Meteorological Log
of the Steam Yacht 'Southern Cross,' December 1898 to March 1900. 'Additional
Notes on the Aurora Polaris, Observed at Cape Adare during 1898.'
Very good hardcover, spine partially discolored but gilt spine title intact,
library label inside front cover. #27211. $2000
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Borup, George.
A Tenderfoot with Peary.
With a preface by G. W. Melville. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1911. 1st
edition. xvi, 317 pages. Photographs. Folding map.
Fair hardcover. Exlibrary. Bound in library cloth, call number and library name
on spine in gilt, pocket removed inside front cover, stamp on back of
frontispiece and on dedication page, p.279/80 repaired with tape, library
bookplate inside rear cover. Rear folding map repaired with tape. #10383.
$7.50
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Butler, W. F., Major.
The Wild North Land: Being the Story of a Winter Journey, with
Dogs, across Northern North America.
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1874. 4th edition. xi, 358 pages. Illustrations.
Folding map.
Departed in 1872 from the Red River of the North and completed half his journey
in early March 1873 by reaching Lake Athabasca. He followed the Peace River to
the Rocky Mountains and arrived in north British Columbia in late May. He
completed his journey 350 miles farther on 3 June at the frontier station of
Quesnelle on the Frazer River. Decorated cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good.
#10545. $125
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Byrd, Richard E.
Op Verkenning met Byrd: Episoden uit een Avontuurlijk Leven
Verzameld en opnieuw Bewerkt door Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd.
Vertaald door Johann M. Palm. Antwerpen: Helicon, 1947. 247 pages. Photographs.
Translation of Exploring with Byrd.
Text in Dutch. Good hardcover in slightly worn and rubbed dust jacket. Name in
ink on front flyleaf. #17942. $35
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Coccola, Raymond De, and Paul King.
Ayorama.
Illustrated by James Houston. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. 316 pages.
Illustrations. Endpaper maps.
A missionary among the Krangmalit along the Central Arctic coast of Canada.
Good hardcover in chipped and worn dust jacket. #10738. $17.50
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Cook, Frederick A.
Return from the Pole.
Edited, with an introduction, by Frederick J. Pohl. New York: Pellegrini &
Cudahy, 1951. x, 335 pages. Bibliography. Map. Frontispiece portrait.
Arctic travels in 1908-1909, departing from Annoatok, Cook discovers Bradley
Island and reaches the North Pole on April 21, 1908. Later he crosses Grinnell
Peninsula to Jones Sound, and relates other travels. Very good hardcover.
#27148. $10
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Cushman, Joseph A.
New Arctic Foraminifera.
Collected by Capt. R. A. Bartlett from Fox Basin and off the Northeast Coast of
Greenland. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian, 1933. 8 pages. 2 Plates. Smithsonian
Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 89, Number 9.
Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #10867. $47.50
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Delgado, James P.
Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest
Passage.
New York: Checkmark Books, an imprint of Facts on File, 1999. 1st printing.
xii, 228 pages. Index. Bibliography. Color and black-and-white photographs and
illustrations. Inscribed and signed by the author.
'A gripping, lavishly illustrated history of Arctic exploration and the search
for the fabled Northwest Passage, a route that cut through the frozen north to
link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.' - Rear dust jacket. As new hardcover in
as new dust jacket. ISBN 0816041245. #27209. $45
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Du Chaillu, Paul.
The Land of the Long Night.
Illustrated by M. J. Burns. New York: Scribner's, 1901. xviii, 266, [4] pages.
Advertisements. Frontispiece. Illustrations.
Pictorial cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good, bookplate. #13695. $35
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Dunbar, M. J.
Ecological Development in Polar Regions.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1968. 1st printing. viii, 119 pages. Index.
Illustrations. Concepts of Modern Biology Series.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. #20544. $17.50
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Elias, E. L.
The Young Folk's Book of Polar Exploration.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1929. 278 pages. Illustrations. Photographs. Endpaper maps.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding with pasted-on pictorial label. Edges worn,
label creased and damaged, else fair-good. #16076. $27.50
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Feather, A. G.
The King of Mysteries, or the World's Wonderland. A Thrilling
Narrative of the Many Efforts and Attempts to Pierce through and Unravel the
Dark Shroud of Unfathomable Mystery Enveloping the Icy Regions of the Arctic
Circle. Realistic Descriptions of Tragic and Wonderful Adventures, Remarkable
Discoveries, Perilous Explorations, Peculiar People and Strange Weird Sciences,
with Startling Disclosures of Nature's Deepest Secrets as Developed by the
Early English Explorers, and Daring Americans of the Present Era.
Cleveland, Ohio: American Publishing Co., 1891. 718 pages. Illustrations.
Folding map. The copyright date is 1891. No date on title page.
Good pictorial hardcover, small stain in center of rear cover. #27208. $25
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Finnie, Richard.
Lure of the North.
Philadelphia: McKay, 1940. 1st edition. Small 4to (medium-large book). 227
pages. Photographs. Endpaper maps.
Traveling the Western Arctic among Eskimos and whites, from Herschel Island to
King William Island, 1930-1931. Very good hardcover in slight worn and rubbed
dust jacket. #13885. $12.50
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Fox, Lorene K.
Antarctic Icebreakers.
Foreword by Laurence McK. Gould. Garden City: Doubleday, 1937. 1st edition.
xxv, 319 pages. Photographs. Endpaper photographs. Junior Books.
Good hardcover; unrelated gift inscription on half-title page. #13939.
$17.50
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