(Arctic) | Collection of works

(Arctic)

Collection of works, being 4 eighteenth- and nineteenth-century books on Arctic exploration

Lot comprises: Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de. La figure de la terre, déterminée par les observations … par ordre du Roy au cercle polaire. (Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1738. m). Folding engraved map (“Carte de l’Arc du Meridien mesure au Cercle Polaire”), 9 folding engraved plates, one engraved pictorial headpiece and initial. Contemporary French polished calf gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges; rubbed, front cover stained. First edition. (Babson 94; Garrison-Morton 215.1; Norman 1459)

Phipps, Constantin-Jean. Voyage au Pole Boreal, fait en 1773, par ordre du Roi D'Angleterre. Paris: Saillant & Nyon and Pissot, 1775. Half-title, 3 folding engraved maps, 9 folding engraved plates (some with multiple images) 10 folding letterpress tables. Contemporary French cat’s-paw calf gilt, marbled endpapers, red edges. First edition in French (trans. Jean Nicolas Demeunier). (Sabin 62574)

Prévost d'Exiles, Antoine François (the Abbé Prévost), et al., eds. Continuation de l’histoire générale des voyages, ou collection nouvelle des relations de voyages par mer … des voyages par terre. … Tome Dix-neuvième. Paris: Panckoucke, 1770. Vol. 19 [Arctic travels] only. Large folding engraved map, 2 full-sheet engraved map, 13 engraved plates, engraved headpieces. Contemporary French cat’s-paw calf gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

Skioldebrand, A. F. A Picturesque Journey to the North Cape. London: Printed for J. M. Richardson, 1813. Folding engraved frontispiece map, 2 color-tinted engraved plates, terminal errata leaf; plates offset to facing pages. Contemporary diced russia, marbled endpapers and edges. First edition in English.

Together 4 works, 8vo and 4to, various sizes

Sold as a group lot, not subject to return.