(Arctic) | Collection of works

(Arctic)

Collection of approximately 47 works in 52 volumes, mainly nineteenth century

Lot includes: Trémarec, M. de Kerguelen. Relation d'un voyage dans la mer du nord... Paris: de l'imprimerie de Prault, 1771 — Captain Back. Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and Along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1836 — Clutterbuck, Walter J. The Skipper in Arctic Seas. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890 — Scoresby, W. An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1820. 2 vols. — Northern Articles From Household Words And All the Year Round. Conducted by Charles Dickens. London: 1850-1859 — Fisher, Alexander. A Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper in the Years 1819 & 1820. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. 2 copies, one in clamshell box — Fisher, Alexander. Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions... London: Printed for Richard Philipps, [1819] — Fisher, Alexander. Beaufoy, Colonel. The Possibility of Approaching the North Pole Asserted by the Hon. D. Barrington... New York: James Eastburn & Co., 1818 — Chamberlain, Nathan H. Dr. Kane and Christian Heroism as seen in Arctic Voyaging: A Discourse Preached at Canton, Mass., April 16, 1857. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1857 — [Sabine, Edward].The North Georgia Gazette, and Winter Chronicle. London: John Murray, 1821 — Hooper, C.L. Report of the Cruise of the U.S. Revenue Steamer Thomas Corwin, in the Arctic Ocean, 1881. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884 — Smith, D. Murray. Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores from the Earliest Times to the Expedition of 1875-76. Edinburgh: Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, 1877, and others

Mixed bindings

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