Bernier Captain (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. FIRST PRINTING of First Edition 1984. Original green cloth with gilt lettering spine and small gilt decoration lower spine. The book has minor soiling covers, some puckering of the cloth near the spine areas, some cloth puckering lower covers (mainly near middle of bottom rear cover), no owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, a little splitting rear inside hinge (about 6cm but hinge quite strong), solid binding. The book measures 242mm tall x 163mm and has 529 pages, many b/w photos and illustrations, 11 maps and charts (several historical, 4 are folding), index. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Government Printing Bureau, 1910. First ediiton, 1910. Good ex-library copy, with four folding maps and charts, the two maps in color, numerous black and white plates. Dark brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, 529 pages. Some edgewear, fraying to corners and spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, white numbers at lower spine, library bookplate, library stamps on outer edges of text block, other gift notations on two preliminary blanks, stamps on title page and final page of index, no other library markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. pp. 161. Slim 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. 3 folding maps, 3 in-text maps, b&w photos. Ex-library: sticker to spine, bookplate, rubber stamps and punched stamps. Contents clean and complete. Reports include observations about hunting (polar bears, reindeer, muskox, etc.), fishing and whaling, visits and interviews with Inuit people/guides, geology, resources, meteorology, climate, igloo building.

Condition: In good condition. Original full brown cloth, flat gilt spine., Size : 4to, With profuse black and white illustrations.

(Ottawa, Dept. of Marine and Fisheries, 1911). L-8vo. [viii],161 pp. With 87 photographs, 3 sketches, folding map of Arctic Bay, Baffin Island; folding map of route of Lavoie and party on Baffin Land; and large folding map ((60x50 cm.) of 'surveys and discoveries in the arctic regions, with additions and changes to 1911 on coast of Baffin Island'. Green cloth with gilt lettering. (library copy from the University of Cape Town, with small sticker on spnine, ex-libris and small stamp on title) Joseph Elzéar Bernier (1852-1934) was a Canadian mariner. "From 1904 to 1911, he explored the Arctic Archipelago on annual voyages in his ship the CGS Arctic and officially claimed the islands for Canada." (Wikipedia). The Inuit fondly called him Kapitaikallak, 'stout, little captain'. Most photographs show local people, and are among the earliest pictures of the Inuit.