arctic exploration (8 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. Octavo. Gray cloth boards, stamped in blue and red on spine and front cover; 184pp; illus; appendices. Light overall soil and wear; foxing to text block edges; Very Good, lacking the jacket. Prize label inside front cover, awarded by ther Gewerbeschule Lörrach to Ernst Roser, April 1935. Account of a filmmaking expedition to Greenland that resulted in the American-German co-production S.O.S. Eisberg (American title: S.O.S. Iceberg), released in 1934 and starring Leni Riefenstahl. With numerous photographic illustrations (cyan-tinted halftones) and a section of line diagrams at rear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. 8vo. [5], ii-iii, [2], 4-363 pp. Recent red cloth, done in the style of a library binding, gold lettering and rules on the spine. Recent endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with ten folding plates. This volume prints several examples of primary source materials concerning what happened to de Long and the Jeannette. A few leaves with wrinkles or small chips, two leaves mounted on archival material (repaired).

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Petermanns geographische Mitteilungen. Ergaenzungsheft No. 201. 76 pages, plates and maps. Disbound (removed from bound volume). Very good condition. Arctic Bibliography #7769.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [1], 2-292 pp. Blue cloth with borders in blind on each board, gilt lettering and a gilt decoration on the spine. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. With two full-page illustrations, two fold-out maps in color, and with charts. Arctic Bibliography 14929. With papers from some of the leading arctic explorers and historians at the time: Henry Rink published a detailed history of Inuit peoples this same year, and Clements Markham would go on to publish several arctic histories and texts on the Inuit peoples of Greenland. A lovely example. The textblock a touch dust-soiled, else a sharp copy.

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. The first American edition of In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration In Early Times by Fridtjof Nansen. (illustrator). First American Edition. Quarto, [two volumes], [xviii], 384pp; [xiii], [1], 420pp. In the publisher's blue cloth, illustrated cover, gilt title on spine. Stated "November, 1911" on copyright page, no additional printings listed. Solid text blocks, light points of rubbing along perimeter of cloth. Faint foxing along edges of text blocks, otherwise clean and fine. Complete with a detailed color frontispiece in each volume, as well as numerous in-text illustrations. In the publisher's scarce dust jackets, $8.00 net retail price listed on front panel of each volume. Both jackets with chipping at corners and thin losses along hingeflaps. Professional tissue repairs reinforcing hinges and edges on verso of each jacket. Overall very good condition. (Arctic Bibliography, 11993). This rare first American edition was published in 1911, simultaneously released with the first English edition by William Heinemann in London. Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was a renowned Norwegian explorer, scientist, and diplomat who led the first successful expedition across Greenland's interior in 1888, making significant contributions to Arctic exploration. He later developed the Nansen Passport, a document that provided stateless refugees with legal protection, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922. Nansen also made notable contributions to oceanography and zoology, enhancing the understanding of the polar regions.

Third Edition. Octavo (21cm). Gilt-pictorial blue cloth; xii,268,[2]pp; illus. Mildly rubbed at extremities, with some fading and flaking to cloth at crown of spine; 20th-c. private ownership stamp to endpapers and a few page margins; overall a tight, Good or better copy. Given Worthington's history of piracy, this is likely an unauthorized American printing from the third British edition. Of a higher quality than many of Worthington's titles, however, and a not unattractive copy.

First edition of this anthology of research compiled to support the 1875 British Arctic Expedition, notable for wintering at "the highest winter quarters ever established by an expedition and the farthest north a ship had ever penetrated" (Howgego). Sir George Nares (18311915), recalled in 1874 from command of the Challenger, led the expedition north in 1875 aboard Alert and Discovery with the aim of reaching the North Pole. An outbreak of scurvy among the crew forced Nares to take the "morally courageous" (ODNB) decision to abandon the attempt, and the ships returned to Britain in 1876. Despite the curtailed voyage, the expedition was celebrated on its return: Nares received the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1877 and a gold medal from the Geographical Society of Paris in 1879. The bookplate of Captain Richard Campbell (1933-2023) is on the front pastedown. Campbell was a Royal Navy hydrographer who commanded HMS Hydra and converted her into a hospital ship during the Falklands War. He contributed to hydrographic scholarship through the Hakluyt Society. Arctic Bibliography 14929;Howgego, Polar, N6. Octavo. With 2 folding colour maps, tables and diagrams in the text. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, Royal Geographical Society emblem in gilt on spine, covers framed in blind, brown surface-paper endpapers. Binding mildly soiled, spine toned with ends bumped, spotting to edges. A very good copy.

FIRST EDITION. 225 x 155 mm. (9 x 6"). xxvii, [i], 403, [1] pp. Pleasing contemporary red half calf over marbled boards, raised bands, spine attractively gilt in compartments featuring scrolling cornerpieces and lozenge centerpiece, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With frontispiece, engraved title page, 13 plates, two folding maps, one folding document, and five small illustrations in the text. âA little rubbing to joints and extremities, a three-inch tear to fold-out plate (no loss), other trivial defects, but still a nearly fine copy, the attractive binding solid and very bright, and the text fresh and smooth. This is a well-illustrated and well-documented account of the final search for Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer who mapped nearly two thirds of the northern coastline of North America and whose expedition disappeared during an 1845 attempt to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. Franklin was a hero in Britain for his earlier Arctic explorations, so when his well-equipped expedition staffed with the Royal Navy's best men failed to return or contact authorities by 1847, search efforts were mounted. Over the next decade, 30 operations were organized, some by the British government, others by private parties with funds raised by Lady Franklin. The crew that finally found some answers was led by Sir Francis Leopold M'Clintock (1819-1907), who helmed the "Fox," a sailing ship of 26 men that set off in 1859. Though hope of finding Franklin (1786-1847) alive had passed, M'Clintock succeeded in discovering numerous skeletons and relics from the ships, as well as an official form, completed by the crew, noting Franklin's death in 1847 and the loss of the ships. None of the 129 men who had departed with Franklin made it home alive. Still, DNB recognizes his place in the history of exploration: "he was not the most innovative or successful of Arctic explorers, but his charting of the North American coast was accurate and extensive.".