Arctic Exploration (28 results)

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 12 pages, 9 photographs. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: National Geographic Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 9 pages, illustrated. An original article from the The American Review of Reviews, 1898. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 24 cms. Category: Review of Reviews; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 14 pages. An original essay from the Monthly Review, 1775. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 12 x 21 cms. Category: Monthly Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Condition: New.

Disbound. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Complete, original tabloid newspaper in fine condition. The last of a series of articles on Arctic explorations.

Engraving. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. This lithographic engraving is in very good condition, full borders as published, uncolored as published, images available. ; 16" x 11".

Disbound. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Original, complete disbound newspaper in fine condition with minor foxing. Report on the expedition of Captain Back of the British Royal Navy.

Disbound. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Complete original disbound tabloid format newspaper in near fine condition with a stain on the binding margin and minor foxing a creasing. Hunt's poem appears on the front page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine, bright unclipped dust jacket. In this award-winning classic, Barry Lopez explores the ways the human imagination engages with a landscape at once barren and beautiful, perilous and alluring, austere yet teeming with vibrant life, and shot through with human history. The Arctic has for centuries been a destination for the most ambitious explorers a place of dreams, fears, and awe-inspiring spectacle. Based on Lopez s years spent traveling the Arctic regions in the company of Eskimo hunting parties and scientific expeditions alike, Arctic Dreams investigates the unique terrain of the human mind, thrown into relief against the vastness of the tundra and the frozen ocean. Eye-opening and profoundly moving, it is a magnificent appreciation of how wilderness challenges and inspires us.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 16mo. [1], pages v-xii, pages 13-302, [2]. Folding map present. Dark brown cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine. Moderate toning to the end sheets. Light to moderate scattered foxing to the contents. Map is folded with light toning and occasional light foxing. Former institutional copy with a book label from "Athens (Georgia) Mechanics' Mutual Aid Association" on the front paste down. Fair to good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Harper's Stereotype Edition. 16mo. [2], 373 pages, [1]. Folding frontispiece map. Illustrated. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine. Light wear and fading to the cloth. Light toning and scattered foxing to the text. Bookplate of "Athens (Georgia) Mechanics' Mutual Aid Association located on the front paste down.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ledger. Approx. 13.5" x 9". Rebound at a later time. Marbled paper front cover board re-laid onto black hardcover. White paper title label on the front cover. Back cover is black. White end sheets front and back. 22 pages of hand written list of authors and titles related to exploration in the far regions. Places named include Alaska, Iceland, Hawaii, Cuba, Jamaica, Hyatt, Mexico, Amazon, South America, and dozens more. A single volume of a previous unknown owner(s) reference for a book collection. No ownership or provenance found for this reference.

First Edition. Octavo. Gray cloth boards, stamped in blue and red on spine and front cover; 184pp; illus; appendices. Light overall soil and wear; foxing to text block edges; Very Good, lacking the jacket. Prize label inside front cover, awarded by ther Gewerbeschule Lörrach to Ernst Roser, April 1935. Account of a filmmaking expedition to Greenland that resulted in the American-German co-production S.O.S. Eisberg (American title: S.O.S. Iceberg), released in 1934 and starring Leni Riefenstahl. With numerous photographic illustrations (cyan-tinted halftones) and a section of line diagrams at rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin (1786 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. Franklin also served as governor of Tasmania for several years. He disappeared on his last expedition, attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The icebound ships were abandoned and the entire crew perished from starvation, hypothermia, tuberculosis, lead poisoning and scurvy. Sir John Franklin made his last Arctic expedition in 1845 and within three years the crew of the expedition had disappeared. Noel Wright provides in this book a history of the various Arctic expeditions beginning in the 16th Century on up to Franklin's disappearance. Illustrated with photographs, line drawings and maps. 258 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 8vo. [5], ii-iii, [2], 4-363 pp. Recent red cloth, done in the style of a library binding, gold lettering and rules on the spine. Recent endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with ten folding plates. This volume prints several examples of primary source materials concerning what happened to de Long and the Jeannette. A few leaves with wrinkles or small chips, two leaves mounted on archival material (repaired).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Petermanns geographische Mitteilungen. Ergaenzungsheft No. 201. 76 pages, plates and maps. Disbound (removed from bound volume). Very good condition. Arctic Bibliography #7769.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A Very Good copy in blue cloth binding with gilt stamping to the spine and front cover. There are shallow tears to the tot he head of the spine and some moisture mottling to one corner of the rear board but otherwise a sound copy. This copy is not only inscribed by Stefansson on the half title page but also signed again by him on the title page. All tipped in maps are present as are the two maps in the pocket affixed inside the rear board. This expedition account tells the story of his travels and trials in the Canadian High Arctic in the years between 1913-1918, based on Stefansson s photographs, manuscripts and diaries, The account has been considered a key text to Stefansson's Arctic career, and provides a textbook example of his characteristic theory of living off the country in the so-called Eskimo way. An explorer, anthropologist and a prolific writer, Stefansson (1879-1962) was often referred to as the Prophet of the North and his legacy remains intimately connected to current issues of human-environmental relations, sustainable use of natural resources, and social and cultural viability in the Arctic region. His legacy is especially important for what he did to change the image of the Arctic.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Very Good plus copy in blue cloth boards with a hint of sunning to the top edges and a previous owner name on flyleaf in a Very Good plus unclipped dust j with light wear to the extremity and a damp stain along the bottom edge of the rear panel. Fridtjof Nansen was the first to cross Greenland and later succeeded in proving that an ice locked ship would drift with the ocean current as he crossed the Arctic Ocean. Edward Shackleton, himself no stranger to heroics of polar exploration, greatly admired Nansen and here writes affectionately and authoritatively of his Arctic hero.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright price clipped dust jacket. This is the first complete biography of Sir John Franklin whose tragic death on his final Arctic expedition ended a brilliant career as a naval officer, explorer and administrator. Franklin made his last Arctic expedition in 1845 in search of a North-West Passage and three years later the crew of the expedition had disappeared. Franklin joined the navy at age 15 and his first voyage was to Australia. He later saw action at Copenhagen, Trafalgar, New Orleans. Following the war with France, Franklin turned his seafaring skills to the scientific branch of the navy and for the next twelve years focused on arctic exploration. Following an appointment as Governor of what is now Tasmania, Franklin embarked on his final voyage to the arctic. Illustrated with line drawings and maps. 293 pages.

Hardcover. Arctic, Exploration (illustrator). 1st Edition. Strikingly bound in finely woven pictorial blue cloth bordered and lettered in bright gold with arctic motifs in white, outlined in gold. Spine gilt faded but readable. Very clean and tight throughout; printed on white, heavy stock with 26 full-page photographic plates, including the frontispiece, printed on one side. With a colorful, discrete bookplate featuring a sailing ship; and some paper residue from a bookplate carelessly removed from the front paste-down. This second edition, published in April of 1919 is uncommonly scarce. The first edition, printed in November, 1916 is apparently unobtainable. A very handsome and collectible copy of this classic tale of Arctic danger, intrigue, and the ill-fated voyage of the Karluk. The last voyage of theKarluk, flagship of theCanadian Arctic Expedition of 191316, ended with the loss of the ship in the Arctic seas, and the subsequent deaths of nearly half her complement of 25. In August 1913, Karluk, a brigantine formerly used as a whaler, became trapped in the ice while sailing to a rendezvous point at Herschel Island. After a long drift across the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, in January 1914 the ship was crushed and sunk. In the ensuing months, the crew and expedition staff struggled to survive, first on the ice and later on the shores of Wrangel Island. In all, eleven men died before rescue.The Canadian Arctic Expedition was organised under the leadership of Canadian anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson, and had both scientific and geographic purposes. Shortly after Karluk was trapped, Stefansson and a small party left the ship, stating that they intended to hunt for caribou. However, the ice carried Karluk westwards, far from the hunting party who found it impossible to return to the ship. Stefansson reached land and then devoted himself to the expedition's scientific objectives, leaving the crew and staff on board the ship under the charge of its captain, Robert Bartlett. After the sinking, Bartlett organised a march across the ice to Wrangel Island, 80 miles (130km) away.[n 1] Conditions were difficult and dangerous; two four-man parties were lost before the island was reached.From the island, Bartlett and an Inuk companion set out across the frozen sea for the Siberian coast, in search of help. Assisted by local populations, the pair eventually reached Alaska, but sea ice conditions prevented any immediate rescue mission. On Wrangel Island, the stranded party survived by hunting game, but were short of food and troubled by internal dissent. Before their eventual rescue in September 1914, three more of the party had died, two of illness and one in violent circumstances.Historians have divided views on Stefansson's decision to leave the ship. Some of the voyage's survivors were critical of his seeming indifference to their ordeal and the loss of their comrades. He escaped official censure, and was publicly honoured for his later work on the expedition despite the Canadian government's reservations about its overall management. Although Bartlett was criticised by an admiralty commission for taking Karluk into the ice, he was hailed as a hero by the public and by his former Karluk shipmates. (Wikipedia) Second printing "April, 1919" on the copyright page.

Hardcover. Arctic, Exploration (illustrator). 1st Edition. A massive, weighty tome, chock full of large folding maps, illustrations, and photographic portraits. Ruggedly bound in finely woven brown cloth stamped brightly in gold on the spine and arctic landscape explorers, dogsled and ice in gilt on the front boards. Clean and tight throughout; hinges firm.With a frontispiece portrait of Charles Hall protected by a tissue guard. With the slug: "Bureau. Engraving and Printing." Also engraved portraits with tissue guards of John Franklin, Henry Grinnell, and Eskimo Joe. A fascinating, larger-than life narrative of Arctic exploration. A substantial and collectible copy. Charles Francis Hall (1821 1871) was an American Arctic explorer, best known for the suspicious circumstances surrounding his death while leading the American-sponsored Polaris expedition in an attempt to be the first to reach the North Pole. The expedition was marred by insubordination, incompetence, and poor leadership. Hall returned to the ship from an exploratory sledging journey, and promptly fell ill. Before he died, he accused members of the crew of poisoning him. An exhumation of his body in 1968 revealed that he had ingested a large quantity of arsenic in the last two weeks of his life. In 1860, Hall began his first expedition (186063), gaining passage out ofNew Bedford on the whaler George Henry under Captain Sidney O. Budington, whose uncle James Budington had salvaged Edward Belcher's exploration ship HMS Resolute, also on the "George Henry". He got as far as Baffin Island, where the George Henry was forced to winter over.[1] The Inuit told Hall of surviving relics from Martin Frobisher's mining venture at Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island. Hall soon travelled there to see them first-hand, drawing upon the inestimable assistance of his newly found Inuit guides Ebierbing ("Joe") and Tookoolito ("Hannah").Hall also learned what he interpreted as evidence that some members of Franklin's lost expedition might still be alive. On his return to New York, Hall arranged for Harper Brothers to publish his account of the expedition Arctic Researches and Life Among the Esquimaux. It was edited by a British mariner and writer William Parker Snow, who was also obsessed with the fate of Franklin. The two men eventually fell out (largely because Parker Snow was very slow editing the manuscript), and amongst other things Parker Snow later claimed Hall had used his ideas for the search for Franklin without giving him due credit. (Wikipedia) First Edition with title page date of 1879.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [1], 2-292 pp. Blue cloth with borders in blind on each board, gilt lettering and a gilt decoration on the spine. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. With two full-page illustrations, two fold-out maps in color, and with charts. Arctic Bibliography 14929. With papers from some of the leading arctic explorers and historians at the time: Henry Rink published a detailed history of Inuit peoples this same year, and Clements Markham would go on to publish several arctic histories and texts on the Inuit peoples of Greenland. A lovely example. The textblock a touch dust-soiled, else a sharp copy.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. The first American edition of In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration In Early Times by Fridtjof Nansen. (illustrator). First American Edition. Quarto, [two volumes], [xviii], 384pp; [xiii], [1], 420pp. In the publisher's blue cloth, illustrated cover, gilt title on spine. Stated "November, 1911" on copyright page, no additional printings listed. Solid text blocks, light points of rubbing along perimeter of cloth. Faint foxing along edges of text blocks, otherwise clean and fine. Complete with a detailed color frontispiece in each volume, as well as numerous in-text illustrations. In the publisher's scarce dust jackets, $8.00 net retail price listed on front panel of each volume. Both jackets with chipping at corners and thin losses along hingeflaps. Professional tissue repairs reinforcing hinges and edges on verso of each jacket. Overall very good condition. (Arctic Bibliography, 11993). This rare first American edition was published in 1911, simultaneously released with the first English edition by William Heinemann in London. Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was a renowned Norwegian explorer, scientist, and diplomat who led the first successful expedition across Greenland's interior in 1888, making significant contributions to Arctic exploration. He later developed the Nansen Passport, a document that provided stateless refugees with legal protection, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922. Nansen also made notable contributions to oceanography and zoology, enhancing the understanding of the polar regions.

Third Edition. Octavo (21cm). Gilt-pictorial blue cloth; xii,268,[2]pp; illus. Mildly rubbed at extremities, with some fading and flaking to cloth at crown of spine; 20th-c. private ownership stamp to endpapers and a few page margins; overall a tight, Good or better copy. Given Worthington's history of piracy, this is likely an unauthorized American printing from the third British edition. Of a higher quality than many of Worthington's titles, however, and a not unattractive copy.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 74. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1924 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: German Pages: 74.

The 1744 annual volume for Samuel Johnson's famous periodical. Includes two items of Arctic interest: a publication notice for Arthur Dobbs' ACCOUNT OF THE COUNTRIES ADJOINING TO HUDSON'S BAY in the March issue and an article titled, "On the North West passage" in the supplement. A rare volume of THE GENTLEMEN'S MAGAZINE. [4],716,[16]pp. Antique-style calf, spine gilt, leather label. A few minor ink notations, closed tear to one leaf. Very good.

First edition of this anthology of research compiled to support the 1875 British Arctic Expedition, notable for wintering at "the highest winter quarters ever established by an expedition and the farthest north a ship had ever penetrated" (Howgego). Sir George Nares (18311915), recalled in 1874 from command of the Challenger, led the expedition north in 1875 aboard Alert and Discovery with the aim of reaching the North Pole. An outbreak of scurvy among the crew forced Nares to take the "morally courageous" (ODNB) decision to abandon the attempt, and the ships returned to Britain in 1876. Despite the curtailed voyage, the expedition was celebrated on its return: Nares received the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1877 and a gold medal from the Geographical Society of Paris in 1879. The bookplate of Captain Richard Campbell (1933-2023) is on the front pastedown. Campbell was a Royal Navy hydrographer who commanded HMS Hydra and converted her into a hospital ship during the Falklands War. He contributed to hydrographic scholarship through the Hakluyt Society. Arctic Bibliography 14929;Howgego, Polar, N6. Octavo. With 2 folding colour maps, tables and diagrams in the text. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, Royal Geographical Society emblem in gilt on spine, covers framed in blind, brown surface-paper endpapers. Binding mildly soiled, spine toned with ends bumped, spotting to edges. A very good copy.

FIRST EDITION. 225 x 155 mm. (9 x 6"). xxvii, [i], 403, [1] pp. Pleasing contemporary red half calf over marbled boards, raised bands, spine attractively gilt in compartments featuring scrolling cornerpieces and lozenge centerpiece, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With frontispiece, engraved title page, 13 plates, two folding maps, one folding document, and five small illustrations in the text. âA little rubbing to joints and extremities, a three-inch tear to fold-out plate (no loss), other trivial defects, but still a nearly fine copy, the attractive binding solid and very bright, and the text fresh and smooth. This is a well-illustrated and well-documented account of the final search for Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer who mapped nearly two thirds of the northern coastline of North America and whose expedition disappeared during an 1845 attempt to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. Franklin was a hero in Britain for his earlier Arctic explorations, so when his well-equipped expedition staffed with the Royal Navy's best men failed to return or contact authorities by 1847, search efforts were mounted. Over the next decade, 30 operations were organized, some by the British government, others by private parties with funds raised by Lady Franklin. The crew that finally found some answers was led by Sir Francis Leopold M'Clintock (1819-1907), who helmed the "Fox," a sailing ship of 26 men that set off in 1859. Though hope of finding Franklin (1786-1847) alive had passed, M'Clintock succeeded in discovering numerous skeletons and relics from the ships, as well as an official form, completed by the crew, noting Franklin's death in 1847 and the loss of the ships. None of the 129 men who had departed with Franklin made it home alive. Still, DNB recognizes his place in the history of exploration: "he was not the most innovative or successful of Arctic explorers, but his charting of the North American coast was accurate and extensive.".