Lot 32
Polar Exploration, including Payer, Julius
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 15 January 2014 at 11:00 GMT
Description
New lands within the Arctic circle. Macmillan, 1876. 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt; Nansen, Fridtjof Eskimo life. Longmans, Green & Co., 1893. 8vo, original green cloth gilt; [Idem] Hunting & adventure in the Arctic. J.M. Dent..., 1925. 8vo, dark green publisher's[?] cloth; Rasmussen, Knud Greenland by the Polar Sea. William Heinemann, 1921. Large 8vo, original green cloth with silver lettering and huskies motif, spine partially removed but still present; Wright, Noel Quest for Franklin. Heinemann, 1959. 8vo, black cloth; Stefánsson, Vilhjálmur The friendly Arctic. Macmillan, 1921. 8vo, blue cloth gilt, upper cover detached from text block; all with Cruising Association gilt stamps to covers and spines and blind-stamps internally and bookplates, sold not subject to return (7)