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Arctic Voyages
Sir Albert Hastings MARKHAM (1841-1918). The Great Frozen Sea A personal narrative of the voyage of the "Alert" during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6. London: Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1878. 8° (215 x 140mm). 6 wood-engraved plates, 2 double-page letterpress and wood-engraved charts of the sledging flags printed in colours, 2 maps, one folding, illustrations. (Small tears to folding map, light browning to text.) Contemporary half morocco, t.e.g. (spine discoloured, extremities rubbed). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 10926.
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Anthony FIALA (1871-1950). Fighting the Polar Ice by... Fiala Commander of the Ziegler Polar Expedition. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907. 6° (255 x 180mm). Title in red and black, half-title. 105 plates, some coloured or tinted, 3 maps, one folding and coloured. (Some light browning.) Original green cloth, t.e.g. (extremities rubbed). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 4938.
Frank Arthur WORSLEY (1872-1943). Under Sail in the Frozen North... with a preface by Grettir Algarsson. London: Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd., 1927. 8° (220 x 140mm). 31 plates, 2 maps, one folding. Original blue cloth gilt (small stain to spine). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 19695; together with 40 others (including: Frederick G.JACKSON. A Thousand D[ays] in the Arctic, New York & London, 1899, 8° (Title torn with slight loss); Donald B.MACMILLAN. Four Years in the White North, New York & London, 1918, 8°; Albert Hastings MARKHAM. A Polar Reconnaissance, London, 1881, 8°; J.M.SCOTT. Gino Watkins, London, 1935, 8°). (43)
Sir Albert Hastings MARKHAM (1841-1918). The Great Frozen Sea A personal narrative of the voyage of the "Alert" during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6. London: Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1878. 8° (215 x 140mm). 6 wood-engraved plates, 2 double-page letterpress and wood-engraved charts of the sledging flags printed in colours, 2 maps, one folding, illustrations. (Small tears to folding map, light browning to text.) Contemporary half morocco, t.e.g. (spine discoloured, extremities rubbed). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 10926.
[With:]
Anthony FIALA (1871-1950). Fighting the Polar Ice by... Fiala Commander of the Ziegler Polar Expedition. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907. 6° (255 x 180mm). Title in red and black, half-title. 105 plates, some coloured or tinted, 3 maps, one folding and coloured. (Some light browning.) Original green cloth, t.e.g. (extremities rubbed). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 4938.
Frank Arthur WORSLEY (1872-1943). Under Sail in the Frozen North... with a preface by Grettir Algarsson. London: Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd., 1927. 8° (220 x 140mm). 31 plates, 2 maps, one folding. Original blue cloth gilt (small stain to spine). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 19695; together with 40 others (including: Frederick G.JACKSON. A Thousand D[ays] in the Arctic, New York & London, 1899, 8° (Title torn with slight loss); Donald B.MACMILLAN. Four Years in the White North, New York & London, 1918, 8°; Albert Hastings MARKHAM. A Polar Reconnaissance, London, 1881, 8°; J.M.SCOTT. Gino Watkins, London, 1935, 8°). (43)
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