Commander Expedition (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated (illustrator). Presume First. Black cloth binding with gold print on the spine as well as white Dewey Decimal letter. Embosed edge line and logo on lfront cover. Red headedge tint. (Faded). Laquered covers May have been rebound. Sound, and except usual library markings, etc., unmarked. 270 pages with foldout map in rear. Rescue of Steffansson Expedition. Steffensson was noted ethnologist and biologist.

Soft cover. Condition: New. In 1718-9, the Success, commanded by Capt. Clipperton, expedition chief, and the Speed-well under Capt. Shelvocke set sail from England bound for the west coast of the Americas to take and seize Spanish ships. A terrifying tempest separated the two ships (1726), 2003, 51/2x81/2, paper, illus., maps, 518 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 6 photographs (illustrator). First Edition. Very good in original pictorial wrappers with light soiling and light foxing.

As photographed; Hurst facsimile reprint (together with the Australian National University Press) of the first edition, published by George Newnes, London 1901, with a new introduction (1980) by Tore Gjelsvik, Director of the Norwegian Polar Institute. Very small tear to edge of paper on cover verso; o/w as new with no signs of use, unmarked throughout. Private ownership. Dark blue-black cloth w. gilt lettering; frontis. portr. + xv + VII + 333 + 2 folding maps, with numerous photographs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Charles Wilkes (illustrator). 1st Edition. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. [Complete in 2 Volumes] Wilkes, Charles, U.S.N., Commander of the Expedition. Published by Ingram, Cooke, London, 1852 8vo 2 volumes. Original gilt green cloth repair to tip of one spine 2nd spine laid down with small loss, tight and clean marginal foxing, rare thus in the original gilt green cloth all plates present. aside from the repairs to spines a very good set of the First English edition of the Wilkes Voyages . Very Good. First Edition Thus. Complete in two volumes. xi, 318 pp.; xii, 326 pp. Half titles present. All plates and illustrations called for are present Covers rubbed, edge wear, . Six ships with artists, scientists, and surveyors explored the coasts of North America, South America, Antarctica, and the Pacific Islands.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bien. Idioma inglés. Cuatro Volúmenes. Dimensiones: 14x10 - ( 255, 268, 265, 269 pp.) Encuadernación en plena piel de la editorial, cantos dorados. Incluye grabados y un mapa plegado.

Hard Bound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Complete in two volumes. xi, 318 pp.; xii, 326 pp. Quarter leather and marbled boards. Raised bands, attractive spine slips, elegant gilt designs in the compartments. Half titles present. All plates and illustrations called for are present. A very small chip on the name plate of both Volume 1 and Volume 2, the first not affecting text, the second deleting the small "II" representing Volume II. Covers rubbed, edge wear, Very Good. A nice set. Six ships with artists, scientists, and surveyors explored the coasts of North America, South America, Antarctica, and the Pacific Islands. Provenance: Contains the bookplates of J. B. Torry, Esq. of Shrub's Hill, Sunningdale in Surrey, England.

1925. (Hardcover) Very good plus, no dust jacket. 710pp. 6 issues bound together in plain green cloth without the covers and advertisements. Monochrome and color photographs and illustrations, maps, one folding map (of the Arctic Regions. There is much material on the MacMillan expedition. Contributors include Richard E. Byrd, Lieutenant Commander (Flying Over the Arctic), Donald B. MacMillan (The MacMillan Arctic Expedition Returns). (Travel, MacMillan Expedition).

Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. Ninth Edition, Revised. Published in 1854. Large 8vo. 509 pp. Collated. Complete. Two maps and multiple illustrations, all in very good condition. Clean, unmarked pages, no foxing. Bound in contemporary leather, somewhat worn. Covers in good shape, with only slight bumping, gold gilt spine lettering and imprint on front cover. Back cover looks like it was imprinted as well, but the gilt is missing. Binding is in excellent shape. Ships daily. Captain William Francis Lynch, commander of the 1847 USN expedition to the Dead Sea, wrote this chronicle of the journey upon his return to the United States. A native Virginian, he later served in the Confederate Navy, but he was repatriated to the United States after the American Civil War.

Paperback. First Edition. Melbourne, Government Printer, 1862 and 1862. Foolscap folio, two papers, 51 and 31 pages. Title-wrappers, stab-sewn as issued; a few uncut edges a little foxed; an excellent pair. Victorian Parliamentary Papers Number 108 and 109 of 1861-2. The expedition was 'for the purpose of rendering relief, if possible, to the missing explorers under the command of Mr Burke; and directing the movements of the two land parties organized and despatched on the same mission of humanity, from Brisbane and Rockhampton' (under Landsborough and Walker respectively). Paper 109 gives Norman's account of the activities of his own party; Paper 108, in spite of its prosaic title, is almost exclusively devoted to detailed accounts by Landsborough (33 pages) and Walker (16 pages). Landsborough's reports include an account of the voyage and wreck of the hired transport 'Firefly'; two on the Albert River and the surrounding country, and the journal of his south-western expedition (20 pages). Walker's reports include the journal of his expedition from Rockhampton to the Albert River (12 pages; its first and only publication). Three maps are referred to in the list of contents of Paper 108; these maps are rarely seen and were apparently issued only in copies made available to Victorian Members of Parliament. [2 items].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Provenance - These Five Volumes Are from the Sitwell Family Library At Weston HALL U. K. THEIR FAMILY SEAT FOR 300 YEARS. THE BOOKs ARRIVED AT WESTON HALL DURING THE TIME OF HARRIET WRIGHTSON 1788-1864 AND COL. HENRY HELY- HUTCHINSON who was the nephew of General Lord Hutchinson (later 2nd Earl of Donoughmore), Good Solid Copies, Some Uniform Darkening At Spine Area Of All Volumes, Label At Volume I I Has An Indentation Hole, Some Pages Unopened, Vol. V Has Pp.329 and 330 Bound In Twice, PP.v,283, v, 270, iv, 312,vii,295,iv,330, Volume I I I Has Folding Map Labeled General Chart Showing The Discoveries of The Three Perry Voyages, Ten Tissue Guarded Plates For All Volumes, Images Include Parry, The Ships And Eskimo Life.

Half-Leather. Condition: Good+. "Published under the Authority of the Lords Commanders of the Admiralty". Vol. II only (of 2 published). Chapter I deals with the visits to Tahiti and Raratonga. Other visits are to the Feejee Islands, Port Carteret, Port Gower & Turtle Bay, Port Victoria, Guinea Coast, Arimoa, Floating Islands, Jobie, Pigeon Island, Amboina, bouro, Maccasar, Solombo and Singapore, where they recieve instructions to proceed to China. Then follows the Naval actions in Canton River and attacks on the Forts of Chuenpee and Tycocktow, possesion of Hing Kong, storming the Forts of the Bocca Tigris and much more until the Sulphur returns to Singapore. The remaining voyage takes in Ceylon and the seychelles and includes Natural History observations. St Helena, Ascension Islands and Cape Blanco are the last visits before returning to England. Interesting Appendices include Nicaragua, Marquesas, Kuikahi and, most importantly, a large Appendix on "The Regions of Vegetation; being an analysis of the Distribution of Vegetable Forms over the surface of the Globe, in connexion with Climate and Physical Agents, by Richard Brinsley Hines, Surgeon R.N., which includes Australia and New Zealand. This last Appendix occupies Pages 325 to 460. Followed by the Index. Well illustrated with 11 Full-Page Engraved Plates and 9 Vignette illustrations. Frontis Plates illustrates the attack on the Chinese War Junks at Chuenpee Creek. Contemporary Green Half-Leather Binding with 5 Raised Bands to spine. Gilt Title on Red Ground in 2nd compartment and Gilt Decoration filling the others. Green cloth covered boards with Leather corners. 474 Pages, 900g, 8 1/2" Tall. Some edge wear, corners worn through. Previous owner's name on ffep and blank preliminary page. No other inscriptions. Some light foxing to plates. Only an occasional spot on text pages. Hinges sound and text block firm. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Second Edition. xix,370,(1) & iv,(2),399,(2) Pp. Vol. I has a large partial coloured map as frontis and Vol. II has 3 large folding maps in the rear The record of Franklin's first Arctic expedition, fraught with hardship and tragedy, constitutes one of the classics in the annals of travel literature. In all, the party travelled 5,500 miles overland and with the aid of canoes, exploring the territory from York Factory to the mouth of the Coppermine River on Coronation Gulf, east along the Arctic coast as far as Point Turnagain, and back across the Barren Lands. Provisions were poor and scant, and on the return journey, many crew members died of cold and starvation; the young naval artist Robert Hood was murdered and another executed for the crime. The work also includes accounts by Richardson and Back of the last leg of the desperate journey across the Barren Lands. This edition omits the appendix on the natural history of the region and scientific observations on the aurora borealis and the magnetic needle. Arctic Bib. 5195. Sabin 25625. TPL 1249. Lande 1181-82. Peel 151n. Rebound with the original marbled boards and new brown calf spines. The dedication page has been expertly repaired as well as one of the folding maps in Vol. II. Later brown calf with marbled boards and gilt titles to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY PRESENTED TO CHARLES RAINIER "FROM HIS AFFECTIONATE MOTHER, NOV. 28TH, 1844." (Mount Rainier Washington, U.S.A. was named after the family!) First Edition. Quarto. Hardback. Contemporary Diced Calf (rebacked leather / recased) Complete with folding Charts and plates (plate xiii has repaired tear) Front free-endpaper bearing Rainier family inscriptions. xxix + 310pps. + Appendix (clxxix)pps. Marbled foredges and endpapers. (Some mild foxing & soiling throughout).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY PRESENTED TO CHARLES RAINIER "FROM HIS AFFECTIONATE MOTHER, NOV. 28TH, 1846. Captain Rainier's Bookplate. First Edition. Quarto. Hardback. Contemporary Diced Calf (rebacked leather / recased) Complete with Folding Charts & plates. Rainier Family inscriptions to front free-endpaper. xxx + 571pps. + A SUPPLEMENT TO THE APPENDIX OF CAPTAIN PARRY'S VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE, IN THE YEARS 1819 - 20, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE SUBJECTS OF NATURAL HISTORY. London, John Murray. 1824. pps. clxxxiii - cccx + 6 plates. Marbled endpapers & foredges. (some mild foxing / soiling throughout) Superb ! Mount Rainier in Washington, U.S.A. was named after the family!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Report to the Admiralty of the expedition that left Upernivick on 22 July 1875 and returning in October 1876. This is an ex-library copy with flaws as described. Black half-leather binding with banded spine and dark blue covers are lightly rubbed at edges, binding is sound with strengthened inner hinges. Crossed and stamped large library label is pasted to the inside of the front cover, additional end-papers (darkened), no half-title-page, frontis map has been pasted to previous end-paper with resultant wrinkles on both surfaces and a stamp of "Free Public Library Westminster S.W." on the obverse of the frontis shows through the pasted end-paper (although not visible from the map. Title-page is darkened, has a crossed out reference number in the upper leading corner and a psted paper rectangle covering a "Free Public Library Westminster S.W." stamp, small feint stamp on reverse and short closed tear (approx 1cm) on leading edge. Pages are little darkened with some smudge marks mainly in margins, page 84 to 91have a very small ink mark on the lower corner, "Free Public Library Westminster S.W." stamp acorss the bottom of the final page. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 61115030126. All our books are sent by tracked mail.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good. Publishers cloth, embossed with gilt lettering and emblem to upper cover. Front hinge cracked. Gift inscription in contemporaneous hand to free front endpaper. A touch of foxing. Two of the maps have a dog-eared fore-edge where they have not been folded quite flush with the page edges. Illustrated with tissue-guarded colour frontispiece of the ship, tissue-guarded portrait of the author and 6 fold-out maps. xi, [i], 531pp, 32pp of publishers ads to rear. FIRST EDITION of the posthumously published journal by the captain who came closest to the site where Franklin's expedition ended. "In 1849 Collinson was appointed to command an expedition for the relief of Sir John Franklin, by way of the Bering Strait; he himself had command of the Enterprise, and with him was Commander Robert Le Mesurier McClure in the Investigator. The two ships sailed together from Plymouth on 20 January 1850 but unfortunately separated in the neighbourhood of Cape Horn and did not meet again. The Enterprise passed Point Barrow, Alaska, on 21 August, but the ice forced Collinson to return south and winter in Hong Kong. In 1851 he was again hampered by ice and in 1852 was frozen in at Cambridge Bay for the winter. In 1853 the Enterprise was caught in the ice at Camden Bay, and there passed a third winter. She reached Point Barrow on 8 August 1854, after being shut up in the Arctic, entirely on her own resources, for upwards of three years. Of the many who had searched for Franklin, Collinson came closest to the place where the expedition had ended. Collinson's addition to geographical knowledge on this Arctic trip was very considerable, and would have been tantamount to the discovery of the north-west passage, had this not been already actually achieved by the men of the Investigator" (DNB). Arctic Bibliography 3351; Hill 337; Ricks p 68; Tourville 986.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good, Clean, Some Wear To Boards And Calf At Extremities, Fade at Upper Spine Area, Sm Quarto, Half Calf, Spine and Corners Wrapped, Marbled Boards, xv,PP.783, Twenty Six Plates, There are Eleven Hand Colored Plates and a second Identical Extra-Illustraterd Uncolored Plates Identical Illustrations with Publisher and Illustrator Credits in The Same Weight Paper ( not Proof Before Letters), B & W Engraving And A Second Hand Colored, Followed By Four Plates Of Plants At The End Of The Appendix And Followed By Four Maps The Order Of Which and Titles Are Different Than the Book Index shows: Chart of the Discoveries & Route Northern Land Expedition Under The Command Of Captain Franklin, An Outline To Show The Connected Discoveries Of Captains Ross, Parry, & Franklin in the Years 1818, 19, 20, 21, 22 & 23 Which is Hand Colored Showing the Outline Of Water and A Route In Red Line, Route From York Factory To Isle A Cumberland House and The Summer & Winter Tracks From There To Isle A La Cross in 1819 & 1820,And The Fourth Map is Route Of The Expedition From Isle A LA Cross TO Fort Providence in 1819 & 20, Provenance: from the Sitwell Family Library At Weston Hall U. K. The Sitwell Family Seat For 300 Years. This Book Likely Arrived At Weston Hall During The time Of Harriet W. Wrightson 1788-1864 and Col. Henry Hely- Hutchinson Who Was The Nephew of General Lord Hutchinson (later 2nd Earl Of Dronoughmore. It Remained Their Until The Family Sold The Library at Auction in 2021.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; Hardcover. Brown leather boards with gold design at board edges. Title in gold over black leather label on gold decorated spine. Boards are noticeably scuffed and worn. Frayed edges, some sunning. Marbleized edges match marbleized endpapers. Occasional foxing throughout. 4 maps, 30 plates of which 11 are hand colored. All are in nice condition, some light foxing/soil. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.; B/w Illus; 4TO.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. illustrated (illustrator). 4th Edition. Green cloth boards decorated with gilt & black edging & titling are well-bound, each with a gutter crack starting; light rubbing to edges; protected in mylar. Unmarked pages; includes fold-out map in very good condition; slight mustiness.

See Nares' entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded three times. Clearly and boldly written, reading: 'Please give the bearer my delicate instrument for Alert or Discovery | G. S. Nares.' (Wikipedia) "Because of his previous experience in the Arctic, he was summoned from this assignment to take charge of another Arctic voyage in search of the North Pole in Discovery and Alert in 1875, the British Arctic Expedition.".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good condition. New and Corrected Edition. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Lea and Blanchard, 1849. This is the original 1849 "New and Corrected Edition" [NOT print on demand or modern reprint]. Near Very Good condition. Photos upon request. Frayed/rubbed at the spine ends and corners. Inner hinges are perfect. Pages are clean and unmarked, with almost NO foxing. Thick 8vo. xx, 509pp. plus a 36 page catalogue of Lea and Blanchard publications at the rear. With 28 engraved illustrations: Tiberias, Shore of the Dead Sea, Ain Jidy, Masada, Chirstian Arabs of Kerak, Baalbec, etc. Attached near the front is a large fold-out map (15" wide by 20.5" tall) of the River Jordan (one small chip). This copy LACKS the sketch-map of the Dead Sea. Bound in the original brown cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine and front cover. Original pale yellow endpapers. New and Corrected Edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good condition. Thick 8vo. xx, 509pp. + 36 page catalogue. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.