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Vilhjalmur STEFANSSON (1879-1962). The Adventure of Wrangel Island. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. 8° (224 x 154mm). Half-title. Frontispiece, 16 plates, folding coloured map. (Some light browning.) Original cloth gilt (light soiling). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 16774.
[With:]
Henrik RINK. Eskimoiske eventyr og sagn [...Supplement]. Copenhagen: C.A.Reitzel, 1866-1871. 2 volumes in one, 8° (230 x 157mm). 7 plates (2 coloured lithographs, 5 woodcuts), numerous illustrations, extra-illustrated with a mounted photograph with facing lithographic key-plate, tipped in at the front. (The final plate torn and repaired.) Old half roan gilt. This copy may lack a map: the bibliographies are unclear. Arctic Bibliography 14597; Pilling p.80.
Charles Francis HALL. Life with the Esquimaux: the Narrative of Captain... Hall, of the whaling barque "George Henry," from the 29th May, 1860, to the 13th September, 1862. London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1864. 2 volumes, 8° (212 x 136mm). Wood-engraved frontispiece, 17 plates, folding lithographic map, numerous illustrations. (Some spotting, tears at folds of map.) Contemporary green half morocco gilt (scuffed). Arctic Bibliography 6485; Pilling p.41.
V.STEFANSSON. The Friendly Arctic The story of five years in polar regions. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921. 8° (221 x 150mm). Half-title. Frontispiece, 34 plates, 9 maps (4 folding, 2 folding in pocket at end [1 coloured]). Original cloth gilt (light soiling). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 16808.
V.STEFANSSON. My Life with the Eskimo. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. 8° (224 x 150mm). Half-title. Frontispiece and 59 plates, 2 folding maps (1 printed in two colours). Original cloth, top edge gilt (light soiling). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 16832.
Rockwell KENT. Salamina. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1935. 8° (216 x 152mm). Frontispiece, two-page map and full-page illustrations printed in brown, title vignette and decorations in black, all after Kent. Original cloth (soiled). Provenance: Leonard Crocombe (author's presentation inscription, dated 1937); together with 30 others in 32 volumes, by or on Stefansson or the Inuit Peoples. (39)
Vilhjalmur STEFANSSON (1879-1962). The Adventure of Wrangel Island. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. 8° (224 x 154mm). Half-title. Frontispiece, 16 plates, folding coloured map. (Some light browning.) Original cloth gilt (light soiling). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 16774.
[With:]
Henrik RINK. Eskimoiske eventyr og sagn [...Supplement]. Copenhagen: C.A.Reitzel, 1866-1871. 2 volumes in one, 8° (230 x 157mm). 7 plates (2 coloured lithographs, 5 woodcuts), numerous illustrations, extra-illustrated with a mounted photograph with facing lithographic key-plate, tipped in at the front. (The final plate torn and repaired.) Old half roan gilt. This copy may lack a map: the bibliographies are unclear. Arctic Bibliography 14597; Pilling p.80.
Charles Francis HALL. Life with the Esquimaux: the Narrative of Captain... Hall, of the whaling barque "George Henry," from the 29th May, 1860, to the 13th September, 1862. London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1864. 2 volumes, 8° (212 x 136mm). Wood-engraved frontispiece, 17 plates, folding lithographic map, numerous illustrations. (Some spotting, tears at folds of map.) Contemporary green half morocco gilt (scuffed). Arctic Bibliography 6485; Pilling p.41.
V.STEFANSSON. The Friendly Arctic The story of five years in polar regions. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921. 8° (221 x 150mm). Half-title. Frontispiece, 34 plates, 9 maps (4 folding, 2 folding in pocket at end [1 coloured]). Original cloth gilt (light soiling). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 16808.
V.STEFANSSON. My Life with the Eskimo. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. 8° (224 x 150mm). Half-title. Frontispiece and 59 plates, 2 folding maps (1 printed in two colours). Original cloth, top edge gilt (light soiling). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 16832.
Rockwell KENT. Salamina. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1935. 8° (216 x 152mm). Frontispiece, two-page map and full-page illustrations printed in brown, title vignette and decorations in black, all after Kent. Original cloth (soiled). Provenance: Leonard Crocombe (author's presentation inscription, dated 1937); together with 30 others in 32 volumes, by or on Stefansson or the Inuit Peoples. (39)
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