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2. (Alaska and North-West America) | Collection of works

4. (America) | Collection of works

5. Amundsen, Roald | "Sydpolen," in the rare original parts

6. (Amundsen, Roald) | Collection of works

7. (Amundsen, Roald) | Collection of works

8. Amundsen, Roald, Fridtjof Nansen, and Otto Sverdrup | Three letters about the naval history of Norway

9. Anania, Giovanni Lorenzo d’ | "L’Universale fabrica del mondo." With maps of the world and four continents

10. (Anson, George) | The "extremely rare" first account of Anson's voyage

11. (Anson, George) | Collection of works

12. (Antarctic — Australia and New Zealand) | Collection of works

13. (Antarctic Expedition — Japan) | Collection of works

15. (Antarctic — Terra Nova/Discovery Expeditions) | Collection of works

16. (Antarctic — Germany) | Collection of works

17. (Antarctic) | Collection of works

18. (Antarctic) | Collection of works

19. (Antarctic) | Collection of works, including maps and panoramas

20. (Antarctic — French language) | Collection of works

21. Apianus, Petrus | The scarce edition that first includes Frisius's account of the conquest of the Inca Empire

22. Apianus, Petrus | An abridgement of the author's 1524 "Cosmographicus liber"

23. Apianus, Petrus | Two significant illustrated geographical and astronomical texts

24. (Arctic) | Collection of works

25. (Arctic) | Collection of works

27. (Arctic) | Collection of works

28. (Australia and New Zealand) | Collection of works

29. (Australia and New Zealand) | Collection of works

30. Ayres, Philip | First edition of a scarce work on English piracy

31. Barlow, William | The first use of the English word magnetism

32. Beechey, Frederick W. | A narrative involving the whole theatre of the Pacific Ocean

33. Beliavskii, Frants Mikhailovich | With charming lithographs of the indigenous people of Siberia

34. Bennett, Frederick Debell | First edition of a work praised by Herman Melville

35. Berkh, Vasilii Nikolaevich | Bering's "First Kamchatka Expedition"

36. Betagh, William | "an Account of a Remarkable Enterprize..."

37. Blundeville, Thomas | An important book in the history of navigation—the Tomash copy
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38. [Bougainville, Louis Antoine, Comte de] | The first official French circumnavigation—and the first to include a woman

41. Browne, William H. J. | Tinted lithographed views taken during Ross's Arctic expedition

45. Burney, James | The most significant general history of early discoveries in the South Seas

46. (Byrd, Richard E.) | Collection of works

47. Campbell, Alexander | The suppressed account of “remarkable seamanship”

48. (Canada) | Collection of works

49. Charcot, Dr. Jean | Collection of works

50. Cherry-Garrard, Apsley | "The Worst Journey in the World," Polar binding

51. Cherry-Garrard, Apsley | "The Worst Journey in the World," in the rare library binding

52. Cherry-Garrard, Apsley | "The Worst Journey in the World," with a presentation copy of his Postscript

54. Collins, John | First edition of this treatise on navigation, with the additional title-page

55. Colnett, James | One of the most important voyages in the history of whaling

56. Colson, (Nathaniel) | The incredibly rare first edition this navigational guide

57. (Columbus, Christopher) | Collection of works

58. (Cook, Captain James) — Louis Antoine de Bougainville and James Magra | The two earliest works on Tahiti