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[Horatio Thomas AUSTIN (c.1800-1865) and others]. Arctic Miscellanies. A souvenir of the late polar search. By the officers and seamen of the expedition. London: Colburn & Co., 1852. 8° (215 x 138mm). Half-title, 34pp. publisher's advertisments at end. Tinted lithographic frontispiece, numerous wood-engraved illustrations. (Some marginal browning.) Original cream cloth gilt (re-backed, old spine laid down, spine and extremities soiled). First edition thus. A selection of articles, stories, poems and parodies written by the members of the expedition aboard the 'Resolute', under the command of Captain Austin, during 1850-1851. Arctic Bibliography 651.
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Robert Edwin PEARY and Marie Ahnighito PEARY. Snowland Folk The Eskimos, the bears, the dogs, the musk oxen, and other dwellers in the frozen North. New York: Frederick A.Stokes, 1904. 4° (258 x 206mm). Frontispiece, title vignette, illustrations. Original pictorial cloth, upper cover with inset oval pictorial paper panel (slight discolouration to spine). A fine copy.
Emilio SALGARI. Au Pôle Sud A Bicyclette. Traduction de l'Italien par J.Fargeau. Paris: Ch.Delagrave, [circa 1890?]. Tall 8° (267 x 172mm). Half-title. Title vignette, numerous illustrations after Cazenove and Fontanez. (Browned, some soiling.) Original pictorial cloth, g.e. (light scuffing to extremities); together with 28 others (including: Percy B.ST.JOHN. The Arctic Crusoe, Boston, 1864, 12°; Josephine & Marie PEARY. Children of the Arctic, New York, 1903, 4°; G.HARTWIG. Dwellers in the Arctic regions, London, 1887, 12°; Robert Michael BALLANTYNE. Ungava: a tale of Esquimaux-land, London, 1868, 8°; Wilfred T.GRENFELL. Down to the Sea, New York, Chicago, [etc.], 1910, 8°; Robert QUINTON. The Strange Adventures of Captain Quinton, New York, 1912, 8°; Gordon STAPLES. To Greenland and the Pole. London, 1895. 8°). (32)
[Horatio Thomas AUSTIN (c.1800-1865) and others]. Arctic Miscellanies. A souvenir of the late polar search. By the officers and seamen of the expedition. London: Colburn & Co., 1852. 8° (215 x 138mm). Half-title, 34pp. publisher's advertisments at end. Tinted lithographic frontispiece, numerous wood-engraved illustrations. (Some marginal browning.) Original cream cloth gilt (re-backed, old spine laid down, spine and extremities soiled). First edition thus. A selection of articles, stories, poems and parodies written by the members of the expedition aboard the 'Resolute', under the command of Captain Austin, during 1850-1851. Arctic Bibliography 651.
[With:]
Robert Edwin PEARY and Marie Ahnighito PEARY. Snowland Folk The Eskimos, the bears, the dogs, the musk oxen, and other dwellers in the frozen North. New York: Frederick A.Stokes, 1904. 4° (258 x 206mm). Frontispiece, title vignette, illustrations. Original pictorial cloth, upper cover with inset oval pictorial paper panel (slight discolouration to spine). A fine copy.
Emilio SALGARI. Au Pôle Sud A Bicyclette. Traduction de l'Italien par J.Fargeau. Paris: Ch.Delagrave, [circa 1890?]. Tall 8° (267 x 172mm). Half-title. Title vignette, numerous illustrations after Cazenove and Fontanez. (Browned, some soiling.) Original pictorial cloth, g.e. (light scuffing to extremities); together with 28 others (including: Percy B.ST.JOHN. The Arctic Crusoe, Boston, 1864, 12°; Josephine & Marie PEARY. Children of the Arctic, New York, 1903, 4°; G.HARTWIG. Dwellers in the Arctic regions, London, 1887, 12°; Robert Michael BALLANTYNE. Ungava: a tale of Esquimaux-land, London, 1868, 8°; Wilfred T.GRENFELL. Down to the Sea, New York, Chicago, [etc.], 1910, 8°; Robert QUINTON. The Strange Adventures of Captain Quinton, New York, 1912, 8°; Gordon STAPLES. To Greenland and the Pole. London, 1895. 8°). (32)
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