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ALBERT 1er Prince de Monaco. La carrière d'un navigateur. Paris, Plon-Nourrit et Cie., 1902.Contemporary half vellum, with brown morocco gilt decoration to spine, top edge gilt. With 2 large folding coloured maps. VIII,395 pp. First edition. - The fine maps depict the first cruise of the Princesse Alice in the arctic regions and the two last cruises of the L'Hirondelle (1887 and 1888) and the first cruise of the Princesse Alice (1895) to the Azores. - A very fine copy.Polak 36. [Boeknr.: 29348 ]

€ 150,00

AMUNDSEN, Roald en Lincoln ELLSWORTH. De eerste vlucht over de Noordpool. Vertaald door L. Blok. Amsterdam, H.J.W. Becht, (1926). Cloth. With ca. 120 photographic illustrations. 282 pp. Narrative of the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile North Polar Flight, 1926, in the airship Norge. [Boeknr.: 3763 ]

€ 35,00

BARENTSZ, Willem & Jacob van HEEMSKERCK. Heemskerk en Barends, hun tweeden togt naar het Noorden beramend. Amsterdam, J.F. Brugman, (ca. 1865).Engraving after C. Bisschop by C.Ed. Taurel. Ca. 32,5 x 40,5 cm A fine print depicting Heemskerck sitting at the table and Barentsz standing, looking at a globe, preparing the second Dutch Arctic voyage of 1595 after the painting by Christoffel Bisschop, ca. 1863. - Fine.Muller 1039A. [Boeknr.: 31089 ]

€ 395,00

BEYERMAN, H.C. Walvisvaart, wijnhandel & schilderkunst. De Rotterdamse reders Beyerman. Amsterdam, De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1995. Boards, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations. 176 pp. [Boeknr.: 9426 ]

€ 25,00

BRAAT, J., J.H.G. GAWRONSKI, J.B. KIST, e.a. Behouden uit het Behouden Huys. Catalogus van de voorwerpen van de Barentsexpeditie (1596), gevonden op Nova Zembla. De Rijksmuseumcollectie, aangevuld met Russische en Noorse vondsten. Amsterdam, De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1998. 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations (some in colours). 343 pp. - Full description of all the found objects used during the wintering on Nova Zembla in 1596/97. [Boeknr.: 2819 ]

€ 45,00

BRONTMAN, L(azar). Op de top van de wereld. De Russische Noordpoolexpeditie en de overwintering van Papanin en zijn mannen op de drijvende ijsschots 1937-1938. Met medewerking en een voorwoord van O.J. Schmidt. Vertaling uit het Russisch van Is. van Crefeld en W. de Vries-Lucks. Amsterdam, Scheltens & Giltay, (ca. 1938). Cloth. With folding map and many photographic plates. 336 pp. [Boeknr.: 16453 ]

€ 30,00

BRUIJNE, Antonius de en Bastiaan Gerardus BALJÉ. De eerste tocht van de Willem Barents naar de Noordelijke IJszee 1878. De dagboeken van A. de Bruijne en B.G. Baljé. Ingeleid en geannoteerd door W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns. Zutphen, 1985. 2 volumes. Cloth. With 4 maps and 36 illustrations. 368 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging LXXXIV-LXXXV. - The first trip of the Dutch expedition with the Willem Barents to the Arctic in 1878. [Boeknr.: 3753 ]

€ 65,00

BRY, Johann Theodore de. Conterfactur der 3 Schiffarten welche di Hollander dürch das Mitnachtischen Mer nemlich beij Norwegen Mosca Nova Zembla und durch Waygats nach den orientalischen Indien fuhrgenomen hatten .. (Frankfurt am Main, de Bry, 1601).Double-page map. Ca. 27,5 x 36 cm Beautiful map from the German edition of the 'Petits Voyages' of De Bry. - Map of the Arctic regions, the so-called Willem Barents-map, based on Willem Barents' three voyages to the north with the purpose of discovering a North-East Passage to China. - Very fine. [Boeknr.: 31944 ]

€ 4250,00

BURGER, C.P. De deurvaert by Noorden om naar Cathay ende China. De journalen van de reis van Pet en Jackman, 1580. De Nederlandsche Poolzeevaarten, 1594 en de volgende jaren. - Het caert-thresoor en andere uitgaven van het eind der 16e en het begin der 17e eeuw. 's Gravenhage, 1930. Half cloth. With many facsimiles and illustrations. 176 pp. [Boeknr.: 13976 ]

€ 75,00

CELL, G.T. (Ed.). Newfoundland discovered. English attemps at colonisation, 1610-1630. London, 1982. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 2 illustrations and 3 maps. XVIII,310 pp. Hakluyt Society 160. - The settlement, from its beginnings in 1610, was closely tied to the exploitation of the fishery. [Boeknr.: 20989 ]

€ 40,00

CHEFS-D'OEUVRE DES ARTS INDIENS ET ESQUIMAUX DU CANADA. Masterpieces of Indian and Eskimo art from Canada. Paris, Musée de l'Homme, Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 1969. 4to. Wrappers. With many plates and illustrations (some in colours). [Boeknr.: 24964 ]

€ 35,00

CRANZ, David. Historie van Groenland behelzende eene naukeurige beschrijvinge van 's lands ligging, gesteldheid, en natuurlijke zeldzaamheden; den aart, zeden en gewoonten der inwooneren aan de West-zijde bij de Straate Davis; 's lands aloude en nieuwe geschiedenisse; en in't bijzonder de verrichtingen der Missionarissen van de Broeder-Kerk, door welken twee gemeenten van bekeerde heidenen aldaar gesticht zijn. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald. Haarlem, C.H. Bohn, Amsterdam, H. de Wit, 1767.3 volumes in 1. Later morocco, spine gilt. With 14 folding engraved maps and plates by J. Swertner. XXXIV,356; 282; 382,(2) pp. First Dutch edition with more and better plates than the original edition in German (1765). - Detailed description of Greenland by David Cranz (1723-1777), the historiographer of the Brethern, he stayed at Ny Herrnhut in Greenland, in 1761-62. With sections devoted to the establishment of the first Herrnhut or Moravian mission in Greenland, the nature, manners and customs of the inhabitants on the West coast on Davis Strait, whales and the whaling-industry in general, and the Eskimos. This account was very popular and translated and reprinted in many languages. 'das vollständigste Gemälde von Grönland im 18. Jahrhundert, ein Werk, das auch Heute noch mehr als nur historisches Interesse beanspruchen darf' (Henze I, p.751). - A clean copy.Arctic Bibl. 3469; Chavanne 5634; Tiele 282; Cat. NHSM I, p.301; Sabin 17415. [Boeknr.: 2100 ]

€ 1250,00

CRANZ, David. The history of Greenland: containing a description of the country, and his inhabitants: and particularly'a relation of the mission, carried on for above these thirty years by the Unitas Fratrum, at New Herrnhuth and Lichtenfels, in that country. Translated from the High-Dutch. London, printed for the Brethern's Society, 1767.2 volumes. Contemporary calf, gilt fillets round sides, spines gilt with morocco title-labels and modern volume-labels. With 2 folding engraved maps and 6 folding engraved plates. LIX,405; 497,(1) pp. First English edition. - Edited and in part translated by John Gambold. An accurate narrative by David Cranz (1723-1777), the historiographer of the Brethern; he stayed at Ny Hernnhut in Greenland, in 1761-62. With sections devoted to the establishment of the first Hernnhut or Moravian mission in Greenland, the nature, manners and customs of the inhabitants on the West coast on Davis Strait, whales and the whaling-industry in general, and the Eskimos. 'das vollständigste Gemälde von Grönland im 18. Jahrhundert, ein Werk, das auch heute noch mehr als nur historisches Interesse beanspruchen darf' (Henze I, p.751). - A fine set.Arctic Bibl. 3471; Chavanne 5633; Sabin 17417. [Boeknr.: 23212 ]

€ 1350,00

DEKKER, P. De laatste bloeiperiode van de Nederlandse arctische walvis- en robbevangst 1761-1775. Zaltbommel, 1971. Cloth, with dustwrapper. With 86 photographic illustrations. 328 pp. - Classic work on Dutch whaling. [Boeknr.: 10660 ]

€ 225,00

DEKKER, P. Willem 't Hart 1750-1830. Een Zijper zeevaarder in de nadagen der Republiek. Zaltbommel, Europese Bibliotheek, 1966. Cloth. With plates. 115 pp. [Boeknr.: 3777 ]

€ 18,00

DODGE, E.S. The polar Rosses. John and James Clark Ross and their explorations. London, Faber and Faber, (1973). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With maps and plates. 260 pp. [Boeknr.: 27782 ]

€ 25,00

GERRITSZ., Hessel. Beschryvinghe van der Samoyeden Landt en Histoire du pays nommé Spitsberghe. Uitgegeven door S.P. l'Honoré Naber. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1924. Cloth. With plate and 5 maps. LIV,125 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging XXIII. - Gerritsz wrote the second work in French because it was a pamphlet directed against the British for which he hoped to find French readers. [Boeknr.: 7716 ]

€ 75,00

GRAMBERG, H. De overwintering op Nova Zembla. Hilversum, Verloren, 2001. 4to. Wrappers. With many illustrations (several in colours). 93 pp. [Boeknr.: 24211 ]

€ 15,00

GRANATH, Fr. Noordpool, een bedreigde wereld van ijs. (Zeist, Wereld Natuur Fonds, 2008). With numerous coloured photographic plates by Mireille de la Lez. 270 pp. [Boeknr.: 32050 ]

€ 30,00

GRUYL, M.E. de. Dordtse Jonas in olie. Een bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse walvisvaart (in de 17e en 18e eeuw). Amsterdam, De Batafsche Leeuw, 1997. Boards, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 80 pp. [Boeknr.: 2998 ]

€ 18,00

HACQUEBORD, L. en P. van LEUNEN. 400 jaar Willem Barentsz. (1596-1996). Harlingen, 1996. 8vo. Boards. With many illustrations (several in colours). 192 pp. [Boeknr.: 16344 ]

€ 55,00

HACQUEBORD, L. en R. de BOK. Spitsbergen 79 o N.B. Een Nederlandse expeditie in het spoor van Willem Barentsz. Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1981. Folio. Wrappers. With many illustrations (some in colours). 160 pp. [Boeknr.: 794 ]

€ 30,00

HACQUEBORD, L. en W. VROOM. Walvisvaart in de Gouden Eeuw. Opgravingen op Spitsbergen. (Amsterdam), De Bataafsche Leeuw, (1988). 4to. Wrappers. With many illustrations (several in colours). 200 pp. [Boeknr.: 796 ]

€ 40,00

HACQUEBORD, L. Smeerenburg. Het verblijf van de Nederlandse walvisvaarders op de westkust van Spitsbergen in de zeventiende eeuw. The sojourn of whalers on the westcoast of Spitsbergen in the 17th century (with a summary in English). (Groningen), 1984. 2 volumes. Wrappers. With many illstrations and plates. 311 pp. - (Thesis) [Boeknr.: 9835 ]

€ 75,00

HOLLAND, Henry. The Iceland journal of Henry Holland 1810. Edited by A. Wawn. London, 1987. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 3 maps and 24 illustrations. XVII,342 pp. Hakluyt Society 168. - Sir Henry Holland, one of Victorian London's most celebrated physicians and most tireless travellers, visited Iceland in 1810 and 1871. [Boeknr.: 21022 ]

€ 40,00

L'HONORÉ NABER, S.P. Walvischvaarten, overwinteringen en jachtbedrijven in het hooge Noorden 1633 - 1635. Zes teksten verzameld en van aanteekeningen voorzien. Utrecht, A. Oosthoek, 1930. Original wrappers. With facsimiles. XXV,181 pp. - (Mij Ned. Letterkunde). - Journals from the Saeghman collection. [Boeknr.: 7294 ]

€ 60,00

HOUBEN, H.H. The call of the North. London, 1932. Cloth. With portraits. VI,348 pp. [Boeknr.: 16455 ]

€ 18,00

HOUBEN, H.H. Der Ruf des Nordens. Abenteuer und Heldentum der Nordpolfahrer. Berlin, 1927. Half cloth. With 6 maps and 11 plates. 320 pp. [Boeknr.: 3830 ]

€ 18,00

HOVING, A. en C. EMKE. Het schip van Willem Barents. Een hypothetische reconstructie van een laat-zestiende-eeuws jacht. Met medewerking van P. Sigmond en G. de Weerdt. Hilversum, Verloren, 2004. 4to. Boards. With many illustrations, plans and cd-rom. 128 pp. [Boeknr.: 28415 ]

€ 50,00

HUTCHINSON, Alex. H. Try Lapland. A fresh field for summer tourists. London, Chapman and Hall, 1870.Original cloth (stained; loose). With folding map, 5 illustrations and 8 lithographed plates. X,228 pp. Account of the journey of the author and his wife through the Scandinavian countries into Lapland in 1869. [Boeknr.: 2108 ]

€ 65,00

JÓNASSON, M. Island. Schicksal eines Germanischen Stammes. Berlin, Holle & Co., (1943). Cloth. With map and 28 photographic illustrations. 335 pp. [Boeknr.: 24434 ]

€ 18,00

JUET, Robert. Henry Hudson's reize onder Nederlandsche vlag van Amsterdam naar Nova Zembla en terug naar Dartmouth in Engeland, 1609. Volgens het journaal .. uitgegeven door S.P. l'Honoré Naber. 's Gravenhage, 1921. Cloth. With 3 plates and 4 maps. LXXIX,137 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging XIX. - The Englishman Henry Hudson, sailing under the Dutch flag, discovered the river named after him in 1609. English and Dutch text. [Boeknr.: 7700 ]

€ 135,00

KANE, Elisha Kent. Arctic explorations: the Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1861.Original embossed blue cloth, with gilt illustration to cover, spine gilt. With folding map, 7 steel-engraved plates and many wood-engravings. 510 pp. 'In a brief life of thirty-six years, mostly in ill health, Elisha Kent Kane participated in two Arctic explorationa and by the time of his death in 1875 was regarded as a true American hero and one of the nation's most popular authors' (Stam, Books on ice, p.39). Narrative of the Second Grinnell Expedition on the Advance, 1853-1855, to search for the Sir John Franklin Expedition and to explore the region north of Smith Sound. Expedition members explored Greenland's Humboldt Glacier while other members of his team explored Ellesmere Island and set a northernmost record on the coast of Greenland.Arctic Bibl. 8373; Sabin 37001. [Boeknr.: 22317 ]

€ 275,00

KANE, Elisha Kent. Arctische Fahrten und Entdeckungen der zweiten Grinnell-Expedition zur Aussuchung Sir John Franklin's in den Jahren 1853, 1854 und 1855. 2. vermehrte Auflage. Lpzg., Otto Spamer, 1859.Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt. With folding map and many wood-engravings throughout. XII,288 pp. Malerische Feierstunden. - 'In a brief life of thirty-six years, mostly in ill health, Elisha Kent Kane participated in two Arctic explorationa and by the time of his death in 1875 was regarded as a true American hero and one of the nation's most popular authors' (Stam, Books on ice, p.39). Account of the Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin. - (Foxed; library stamp on title-page).Cf. Arctic Bibl. 8383. [Boeknr.: 22658 ]

€ 95,00

KOHL-LARSEN, L. De Poolvlucht van de 'Graf Zeppelin' in opdracht van de vereeniging 'Aeroarctic' beschreven. Vertaling A.M. Buis. Amsterdam, Allert de Lange, (1931). Cloth (spine discoloured). With many photographic plates. 235 pp. [Boeknr.: 3837 ]

€ 30,00

LEHANE, B. De noordwestelijke doorvaart. Amsterdam, Time-Life, (1982). 4to. Cloth. With many illustrations (several in colours). 176 pp. [Boeknr.: 27811 ]

€ 20,00

LEINENGA, J.R. Arctische walvisvangst in de achttiende eeuw. De betekenis van Straat Davis als vangstgebied. Amst., 1995. Boards, with dustwrapper. With many illustrations. 237 pp. [Boeknr.: 9418 ]

€ 30,00

LINKE, H. Die Geschichte der Borkumer Walfängerfamilie Meyer. Bremerhaven, Ditzen & Co., (1970). 4to. Cloth. With illustrations. 143 pp. [Boeknr.: 32040 ]

€ 40,00

LOFTHOUSE, J. A thousand miles from a post office or, twenty years' life and travel in the Hudson's Bay regions. With a preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,1922. Original green cloth. With folding map and photographic plates. VII,184 pp. Account of sledge and canoe trips by a bishop of Keewatin whos visitation included the Church of England missions in the southern Hudson Bay regions, 1882-1902. [Boeknr.: 14344 ]

€ 65,00

LOPEZ, B. Droombeeld Arctica. Verbeelding en verlangen in het Noordpoolgebied. Utrecht, Veen, 1986. Wrappers. With maps. 389 pp. [Boeknr.: 16827 ]

€ 15,00

LUBBOCK, Basil. The Arctic whalers. (1937). Reprint. Glasgow, Brown, Son & Ferguson, (1968). Original cloth. With photographic illustrations and plans. XI,483 pp. [Boeknr.: 29364 ]

€ 65,00

LUIGI AMEDEO DI SAVOIA, Duca degli Abruzzi. De reis van de Stella Polare. Noordpooltocht. Uit het Italiaansch vertaald onder toezicht van Maurits Snellen. Leiden, A.W. Sijthoff, (1903).Original pictorial cloth. With 2 maps (1 folding), 2 folding panoramas and many photographic illustrations and plates. (8),558,(2) pp. First Dutch edition. - First Italian Arctic expedition. Luigi (1873-1933) sailed with 19 men to Archangel, and thence across Barents Sea to Rudolph Island, Franz Josef Land, to winter in Teplitz Bay, and to undertake marches on the ice of the Arctic Basin in attemps to reach the North Pole. Cat. NHSM I, p.313-14 (English and French ed.); Arctic Bibl. 10425 (Italian ed.); Stam, Books on ice, p.61. [Boeknr.: 130 ]

€ 145,00

LYST VAN DE HOLLANDSE, HAMBURGER EN BREMER GROENLANDS-VAARDERS, ANNO 1770. UITGEVAAREN. - LYST VAN DE HOLLANDSE EN HAMBURGER, STRAAT DAVIDS-VAARDERS, ANNO 1770. UITGEVAAREN. Amsterdam, Jacob Michiel Brouwer, (1771).2 volumes in 1. Sm.8vo. Modern half cloth. With identical large woodcut depicting a whaling scene on both title-pages. 24; 8 pp. Lists of home ports in Holland and Germany, directors, captains, and names of ships active with whaling in Greenland and Strait Davis. The results of the catches and the dates of return not filled in. - A very fine copy.Cf. Sabin 42885; Jenkins p.121; Honig sale 317. [Boeknr.: 28495 ]

€ 1275,00

MARTENS, Friedrich. Naukeurige beschryvinge van Groenland of Spitsbergen, waer in de walvis-vangst, gelegentheyd van't ys, en haer wonderlyke kragt en figuren, duydelyk worden aangewezen: nevens den aard van't land, gewassen, ys-bergen, gevogelte, viervoetige dieren, en vissen dezer contryen. ook hoe de walvisschen gevangen, gekapt en gesneden worden: benevens verscheide avontuurlyke voorvallen in Groenland. Met een verhaal van de gevangene walvisch by St. Anne-Land. Amsterdam, Abraham Cornelis, 1770.4to. Old wrappers. With engraved frontispiece, woodcut printer's device on title-page and 3 engraved plates. (8),88 pp. First Dutch edition printed in 1710. - One of the classics of whaling, first published in Hamburg, 1675. Containing an accurate description of Greenland, the Greenland right whale and the whale-fishery. The fine engraved frontispiece and the other plates depict whaling-scenes. 'Such realistic depictions of whales and the whale fishery were rare in the 17th and early 18th century. One of the best early descriptions of European whaling (Ingalls 10). At the end: Verhaal van een reis, gedaan door de heer De Montauban, kapitein der vrijbuyters, op de kust van Guinea in den jaare 1695. - (Waterstained, corners dog-eared. - Very rare chapbook edition..Tiele 1186 (note); Cat. NHSM I, p.899 (other ed.);Cf European Americana V,M710/94 and Sabin 44835. [Boeknr.: 31948 ]

€ 2250,00

MELCHIOR, A. De eerste walvisvaart van de 'Willem Barendsz'. Met een inleiding van W.H. Bierman. Haarlem, Gottmer, (1947). 8vo. Half cloth. With many illustrations. 233 pp. [Boeknr.: 3845 ]

€ 15,00

MIKKELSEN, Ejnar. Drie jaar in het Poolijs. De geschiedenis van de 'Alabama' expeditie in de jaren 1909-1912. Bewerking uit het Deensch door M. van Blankenstein. Rotterdam, Nijgh & Van Ditmar, (1913). 4to. Original cloth. With folding map and many photographic illustrations. 251 pp. Describes Mikkelsen's trip in 1909, after his return he found the wreck of the Alabama and was forced to endure another two winters on the Greenland coast till his rescue in 1912.Arctic Bibl. 11438; Howgego III M39. [Boeknr.: 802 ]

€ 95,00

MOER, A. van der. Een zestiende eeuwse Hollander in het verre Oosten en het hoge Noorden. Leven, werken, reizen en avonturen van Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1563-1611). 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1979. 4to. Boards, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations. 260 pp. [Boeknr.: 6039 ]

€ 25,00

NANSEN, Fridtjof. 'Farthest North' being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship Fram 1893-96 and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup, captain of the Fram. London, George Newnes, 1898.2 volumes. Original pictorial blue cloth, elaborate gilt and silver illustration to upper cover and spines, a.e.g. With portrait, coloured plate, folding coloured map (with tear), and c. 200 photographic illustrations. XV,480; VIII,456 pp. Second edition. - Classic account of the first Fram expedition 1893-96, a remarkable achievement in polar exploration, every detail of which was worked out by Nansen himself and went absolutely according plan. 'His account of the journey, Farthest North, was a worldwide bestseller and prepared him for an effective life of diplomacy. Although he planned other expeditions, they were not to be' (Stam, Books on ice, p.66). - One of the most spectacular pictorial cloth travel binding of the period.Arctic Bibl. 11983; P.M.M. 384. [Boeknr.: 1740 ]

€ 275,00

NANSEN, Fridtjof. In Nacht und Eis. Die Norwegische Polarexpedition 1893-1896. Mit einem Beitrag von Kapitän Sverdrup. Lpzg., L.A.Brockhaus, 1897. 2 volumes. Half calf. With 4 maps, 8 coloured plates and 207 illustrations. X,527;VIII,507 pp. [Boeknr.: 810 ]

€ 70,00

NANSEN, Fridtjof. In Nacht und Eis. Die Norwegische Polarexpedition 1893-1896. Neue Ausgabe. 2. Auflage. Wiesbaden, F.A. Brockhaus, 1959. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With folding coloured map and 33 illustrations. 342 pp. [Boeknr.: 27778 ]

€ 35,00

NANSEN, Fridtjof. Vers le Pôle. Traduit et abrégé par Ch. Rabot. Paris, (1897). Half cloth. With 200 illustrations. VIII,424 pp. [Boeknr.: 3883 ]

€ 70,00

NANSEN, Fridtjof. Sibirien. Ein Zukunftsland. 3. Auflage. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1919. Original pictorial boards. With 3 folding maps and photographic plates. VIII,383 pp. [Boeknr.: 24301 ]

€ 45,00

NANSEN, Fridtjof. Spitzbergen. 2. Auflage. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1922.Original decorated boards. With 180 drawings, photographic illustrations and maps by the author. 327 pp. Second German edition. - Oceanographic observations during the cruise of the Veslemöy to Spitsbegen in 1912.Arctic Bibl. 12019 (English edition only). [Boeknr.: 31997 ]

€ 65,00

NEDERLAND EN HET NOORDPOOLGEBIED. Rotterdam, Maritiem Museum, 1958. Wrappers. With illustrations. 62 pp. [Boeknr.: 24590 ]

€ 20,00

OOSTERVELD, P. Nederlandse Spitsbergen expeditie 1968-'69. (Nijmegen, 1970). Oblong 8vo. Wrappers. With photographic illustrations. 48 pp. [Boeknr.: 31816 ]

€ 18,00

OVERVOORDE, J.C. De noord-oostelijke doorvaart naar China. Utrecht, 1926. Wrappers. (82) pp. - (In Bijdr. Hist. Gen.). [Boeknr.: 30727 ]

€ 30,00

OXENHORN, H. Tuning the rig. A journey to the Arctic. N.Y., Harper & Row, (1990). Half cloth, with dust-jacket. With map and 2 plates. X,281 pp. [Boeknr.: 15415 ]

€ 20,00

PALM, W.H.G. Walvisschen en walvischvaart. Amsterdam, L.J. Veen, (1946). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With folding map and 30 illustrations. 199 pp. [Boeknr.: 3884 ]

€ 25,00

PARRY, Ann. Parry of the Arctic. The life story of Admiral Sir Edward Parry 1790-1855. London, Chatto & Windus, 1963. Cloth. With folding map and many plates. 240 pp. [Boeknr.: 32022 ]

€ 35,00

PARRY, William Edward. Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-20, in his majesty's ships Hecla and Griper. With an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations. 2nd edition. London, John Murray, 1821.4to. Later half calf with old boards, spine gilt with black title-label. With 6 engraved charts (4 folding), 5 lithographed profils and 9 aquatint plates by W. Westall after Beechey. (8),XXIX,310,CLXXIX pp. First edition published the same year. - The first (and most succesful) of Parry's four voyages under his own command. By August 1, 1819, Sir William Edward Parry (1790-1855) had managed to sail westward completely through Lancaster Sound, establishing that it was actually a strait. He then made the European discovery of Barrow Street, which he named after Sir John Barrow. Continuing westward, he reached the south coast of a large island he named Melville Island after Lord Melville. Parry and his men had sailed west of the 110th meridian of longitude, half the distance of the Northwest Passage, and thereby won a prize of � 5.000, which Parliament had offered as an incentive for the discovery of the Northwest Passage. - (Some spotting and foxing as usual). - Fine.Arctic Bibl. 13145; Hill 1311; Sabin 58860; Stam, Books on ice, p.24. [Boeknr.: 13758 ]

€ 1650,00

RASKY, Fr. De Poolreizigers. Vikingen, pelsjagers, zeevaarders en romatische avonturiers in de grimmige verlatenheid van de noordelijke ijsgebieden. Een fascinerende studie over de vroegste arctische geschiedenis. (Amsterdam, Amsterdam Boek, 1978). Wrappers. With plates. 285 pp. [Boeknr.: 3865 ]

€ 18,00

REY, L. (Ed.). Unveiling the Arctic. Co-editors Cl. Reed and M. Falk. (Calgary, Leiden, 1984). Folio. Cloth. With many illustrations. VII,(292) pp. Papers delivered to the international meeting (1981) 'The history of the discovery of the Arctic Regions as seen through the descriptions of travellers and the work of cartographers from early antiquity to the 18th century'. [Boeknr.: 3863 ]

€ 45,00

RODAHL, K. North. The nature and drama of the polar world. Foreword by Ch. Swithinbank. Melbourne, William Heinemann, (1954). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XVI,224 pp. [Boeknr.: 3909 ]

€ 15,00

ROSS, John. Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage, and of a residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. Including the reports of James Clark Ross and the discovery of the northern magnetic pole. (With:) Appendix to the narrative .. London, A.W. Webster, 1835.2 volumes. 4to. Later blue cloth with original title-label to spines. With portrait of John Ross, 6 maps and charts (1 folding) and 43 lithographed and mezzotint plates (19 in colours). XXXIII,740; XII,120,CXLIV,CII pp. First edition. - Sir John Ross (1777-1856) set out in 1826 with the small paddle-steamer the Victory, after the failure of his voyage in 1821. He spent the years 1829-1833 in the far northwest. He successfully waethered repeated Arctic winters and systematically accumulated a wealth of scientific data and reached the North Magnetic Pole in 1831.The Victory was crushed in the ice and Ross and his men were rescued by a whaler, the Isabella, in August 1833 at Lancaster Sound, after a terrible trek South. The introduction contains a chronological summary of previous explorations in search of a Northwest Passage. - Rare subscriber's copy with the Appendix.Abbey, Travel, 636; Sabin 73381; Arctic Bibl. 14866; Stam, Books on ice, p.22; Hill 1490. [Boeknr.: 1373 ]

€ 1800,00

SCOTT, J.M. Icebound. Journeys to the Northwest Sea. (London, Gordon & Cremonesi, 1977). Boards, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 156 pp. [Boeknr.: 3915 ]

€ 18,00

SORENSEN, J. Fridtjof Nansen sage. Geautoriseerde vertaling van A. Röntgen. 's Gravenhage, D.A. Daamen, (1932). Cloth. With many illustrations. 395 pp. [Boeknr.: 3893 ]

€ 25,00

STEGER, W. and P. SCHURKE. North to the Pole. London, Macmillan, (1988). Boards, with dust-jacket. With plates (blank margin sl. dam.). XII,339 pp. [Boeknr.: 7804 ]

€ 15,00

TOLLENS, Hendrik. The Hollanders in Nova Zembla (1596-1597). An Arctic poem. Translated from the Dutch by Daniel van Pelt. With a preface and an historical introduction by S.R. van Campen. Including notes. N.Y., G.P. Putman's Sons, 1884.Original green cloth gilt, top edge gilt. With frontispiece. XVII,120 pp. First published in Dutch in 1820. - A celebrated poem on the Dutch wintering on Novaya Zemlya in a wooden cabin by Willem Barentsz and his crew in 1596-97.Cat. NHSM I, p.311; Arctic Bibl. 17782. [Boeknr.: 31071 ]

€ 150,00

VIKSTEN, A. Berenjagers en robbenvangers. Vertaald door H. van Laar. Amsterdam, Arbeiderspers, 1935. 8vo. Cloth. With many plates. 144 pp. [Boeknr.: 3903 ]

€ 15,00

VISSER, Fedde Jansz. Op walvisjacht naar Spitsbergen. Een hachelijke onderneming in de Noordelijke IJszee, 1774-1778. Bezorgd en ingeleid door L. Hacquebord. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2010. Boards. With illustrations (several in colours). 160 pp. - Three 18th century journals of Fedde Jansz Visser written during his whaling expeditions. [Boeknr.: 31934 ]

€ 30,00

WARTENWEILER, Fr. Fridtjof Nansen. Zürich, Rotapfel-Verlag, (1961). Cloth. With plates. 308 pp. [Boeknr.: 3905 ]

€ 18,00

WEEMS, J.E. Race for the North Pole. Preface by V. Stefansson. London, Heineman, (1961). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With plates. XIV,240 pp. [Boeknr.: 3936 ]

€ 15,00

WHYMPER, Fréderick. Voyages et aventures dans l'Alaska (ancienne Amérique Russe). Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglais avec l'autorisation de l'auteur par Émile Jonveaux. Paris, Hachette et Cie., 1871.Contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt, top edge gilt. With folding map and 37 wood-engravings. II,412 pp. The author, a member of the Western Union Telegraph Co. Expedition, visited Plover Bay (Chukotka) 1865, and Petropavlovsk 1866, traveled in Kamchatka and on the west coast of Okhotsk Sea; later made journeys up and down the Yokon River from the Norton Sound region. He gives here accounts of his journeys (Arctic Bibl. 19424 English ed.). - Some foxing otherwise fine. [Boeknr.: 25554 ]

€ 225,00

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