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DONGEN, Sjef van. Een Hollandsche jongen in het hooge Noorden. Leven en avonturen op Spitsbergen. Amsterdam, Scheltens & Giltay, (1929). Original pictorial cloth. With photographic plates and illustrations by Pol Dom. 244 pp. First edition. - Adaptation to children's book of Vijf jaar in ijs en sneeuw. Mijn leven in het Noordpoolgebied. - Josephus Maria Andreas Cornelius (Sjef) van Dongen (1906 - 1973) was a Dutch Arctic voyager and politician. From 1923 till 1928 he was stationed at Spitsbergen. [Boeknr.: 36282 ]

€ 30,00

DONGEN, Sjef van. Een Hollandsche jongen in het hooge Noorden. Leven en avonturen op Spitsbergen. Amsterdam, Scheltens & Giltay, (1929). Original pictorial wrappers (top of spine sl. dam.). With photographic plates and illustrations by Pol Dom. 244 pp. First edition. - Adaptation to children's book of Vijf jaar in ijs en sneeuw. Mijn leven in het Noordpoolgebied. - Josephus Maria Andreas Cornelius (Sjef) van Dongen (1906 - 1973) was a Dutch Arctic voyager and politician. From 1923 till 1928 he was stationed at Spitsbergen. [Boeknr.: 36283 ]

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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. - Contains Isaac Massa's description of Siberia. The second part deals with Spitsbergen based on the logs of Willem Barentsz. [Boeknr.: 7716 ]

€ 45,00

HACQUEBORD, L. & W. VROOM. (Red.). Walvisvaart in de Gouden Eeuw. Opgravingen op Spitsbergen. (Amsterdam), De Bataafsche Leeuw, (1988). 4to. Wrappers. With many illustrations (several in colours). 200 pp. Contributions on Dutch whaling in the 17th century by J.R. Bruijn, G.G. Schilder, A.M. van der Woude, P.D.J. van Iterson, L. Hacquebord, a.o. [Boeknr.: 796 ]

€ 25,00

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 ]

€ 150,00

HACQUEBORD, Louwrens & René 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. Dutch expedition to the settlement of Smeerenburg on Amsterdam Island in northwest Svalbard, founded by Danish and Dutch whalers in 1619 as one of Europe's northernmost outposts. [Boeknr.: 794 ]

€ 18,00

MULLER, S. Geschiedenis der Noordsche Compagnie. Utrecht, Gebr. van der Post, 1874.Later half cloth (with small label and tape on frontcover). With folding coloured map. X,435 pp. The Noordsche Compagnie, its organization, whaling and trading activities in Greenland and West Spitsbergen, being an outline of Netherlands'explorations and whaling in Arctic seas in the 16-17th centuries. The appendices contain documents and extracts from logs. - (Library stamp). - Scarce.Tiele 774; Cat. NHSM II, p.902; Arctic Bibl. 11844. [Boeknr.: 9443 ]

€ 175,00

NOBILE, Umberto. Met de 'Italia' naar de Noordpool. De feiten van de Italiaansche Pool-expeditie in 1928. Baarn, N.V. Hollandia-Drukkerij, 1931. Cloth. With photographic plates. 260 pp. First Dutch edition of L'Italia al Polo nord. Milano, 1930. - With airship, the second 'Italia', Nobile would undertake a new expedition to the pole, now entirely Italian. This expedition was very fatal. The Dutchman Sjef van Dongen was among others involved in his rescue.Arctic Bibl. 12346; Howgego III, N28. [Boeknr.: 3852 ]

€ 45,00

RAVEN, Dirck Albertsz. Journael ofte beschrijvinge van de reyse gedaen .. na Spitsbergen, inden jare 1639, ten dienste van de E.Heeren Bewinthebbers vande Groenlantse Compagnie tot Hoorn. (Amsterdam, C.G.A. Corvey, Papiergroothandel,1951). Wrappers. 18 pp. Model voor den uitgever. - First published in Utrecht in 1647. - On May 24, 1639, Dirck Albertsz was shipwrecked near Spitsbergen as commander of the ship Spitsbergen. He barely survived, after his rescue by commander Gale Hamkes from Harlingen with his ship De Oranjeboom, only 20 of the 86 crew members were left. [Boeknr.: 15728 ]

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VELDKAMP, Albert J. In het kielzog van Willem Barentsz. Met het expeditieschip 'Plancius' naar het hoge Noorden. Vlissingen, ADZ, 1996. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations. 215 pp. [Boeknr.: 21539 ]

€ 25,00

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