Lot 425
Polar Exploration
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2013 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Astrup, Eivind With Peary near the Pole. London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1898. 8vo, folding map, original maroon cloth gilt, spine a little faded; Peary, R.E. Nearest the Pole. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1907. 8vo, colour frontispiece, folding map, original cloth gilt, spine a little faded, upper joint rubbed, frontispiece loose; Shackleton, Ernest H. South... London: William Heinemann, 1922. 8vo, 31 plates, original cloth, spine and covers a little faded, some slight soiling to edges; Hall, Charles F. Narrative of the second Arctic expedition... Washington: Government Printing Office, 1879. 4to, original green cloth gilt, upper cover very slightly soiled, some bumping and rubbing to spine and covers; Scott, R.F. Scott's last expedition, the personal journals... London: John Murray, 1923. 8vo, original cloth, 18 plates, 2 maps, spine faded, binding a little soiled; Brögger, W.C. and Rolfsen, Nordahl Fridtiof Nansen. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896. 8vo, 8 plates, 3 maps, original green cloth with silver image to upper cover, plates and folding maps, spine faded; McClintock, Francis Leopold A narrative of the discovery of the fate of Sir John Franklin and his companions. London: John Murray, 1860. 8vo, 13 plates, facsimile letter and 4 folding maps, green calf gilt, spine faded, spine and covers rubbed and chipped; Gordon, Seton Amid snowy wastes. London: Cassell and Company, 1922. 8vo, 113 plates, 2 maps, original blue cloth, spine and boards a little faded, spine chipped and detached in places; Marr, Scott Into the frozen south. London: Cassell and Company, 1923. 8vo, plates, green cloth, a little rubbed, some slight foxing; and several others