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This is a permanent Polar Wants List. We are extremely competitive with this type of material and will respond to all quotes. In addition, we are always looking to purchase related ephemera such as letters, photographs, menus, lecture notices, and original artifacts. Interesting inscribed association copies from Expedition members are always of interest.

 

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- Abruzzi, Duke of - Farther North than Nansen. 1901

- American Philosophical Society - Centenary Celebration. Wilkes Exploring Expedition.

- Amundsen - NorthWest Passage.

- Amundsen - Our Polar Flight. 1925.

- Amundsen - South Pole. 2 vols. 1912.

- Anderson - Letter from Chief Factor James Anderson.

- Anon. - A Brave Man and His Belongings. 1874.

- Arctic Miscellanies 1852

- Arctic Photographs – Original

-Artifacts :  Expeditions, Famous Personalities, etc

- Armstrong - Observations on Naval Hygiene and Scurvy. 1858.

- Armstrong - Personal Narrative discovery NW Passage

- Armitage - Cadet to Commodore.
- Armitage - Two years in Antarctic. 1905
- Astrup - With Peary Near the Pole.

- Back - Narrative Arctic Land Expedition 1836
- Back - Narrative Expedition in HMS Terror 1838

- Bagshawe - Two Men in Antarctic. Graham Land 1920
- Balch - Antarctica

- Balch - Mt. McKinley & Mountain Climber’s Proofs

- Balch – North Pole & Bradley Land

- Barker - Description of a View of the North Coast Spitsbergen.

- Barnard - Voyage around the World 1812. 1829

- Barrington - Possibility of Approaching the North Pole Discussed.

- Barrington - Miscellanies 

- Barron - An Apprentice’s Reminiscences of Whaling. In Davis’s Strait. 1890.

- Barron –-Old Whaling Days.
- Barrow - Chronological History Voyages to Arctic. 1818
- Barrow - Voyages of Discovery and Research. 1846

Beechey - Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering’s Strait. 2 vols.

- Beechey – A Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole. 1843.

- Belcher – Last of the Arctic Voyages. Two volumes. 1855.

- Bell - Lieut. John Irving, R. N. 1881.

- Bellingshausen - Voyage to Antarctic Seas. 1819-1821. 2 vols. Hakluyt: 1945.
- Bellot - Memoirs of Lieutenant … 2 volumes. 1855

- Benham – Sketch of the Life of Jan August Miertsching. 1854.

- Bennett - Whaling Voyage round the Globe 1833. 2 vol. 1840

- Bernacchi - To the South Polar Regions 1898-1900. 1901.

- Bessels - Die Amerikanische Nordpol-Exedition.

- Blackmore - Fate of Franklin.
- Borchgrevink - First on the Antarctic Continent. 1901.

- Braithwaite – Explanation Answer John Ross

-Brandes, Karl - Sir John Franklin  Die Unternehmungen Fur Seine Rettung - Berlin 1854

- British Antarctic Expedition 1910. Natural History Reports

- British Graham Land Expedition. 1934. Scientific Reports

- Brown - Message form the World of Spirits, … 1857.
- Brown - NW Passage & Search for Franklin
- Brown – A Naturalist at the Poles.
- Brown – Spitsbergen

- Brown - Voyage of the Scotia… Antarctic Seas. 1906

 -Browne - North-West Passage
- Browne - Ten Colored Views… 1850

- Bruce - Life in Antarctic. Scottish Antarctic Expedition. 1907

- Bryant - Auxiliary Expedition of 1895.
- Bull - Cruise of the Antarctic. 1896.

- Burford - Description of Summer and Winter Views … Polar Regions

- Burney - Chronological History of North-Eastern Voyages… 1819.
- Byrd - Little America  Limited Editions only

- Byrd - Discovery. Signed or Limited Editions only

- Byrd - Alone. Signed or Limited Editions only

- Byrd - Skyward.  Signed or Limited Editions only

- Byrd - Into the home of the Blizzard.

- Chappell - Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson’s Bay … 1817.
- Charcot - Voyage of the Why Not? n.d.
- Charcot - Journal de L'expedition Antarctic

- Charcot - Le Pourquiois-Pas?

- Charcot - Deuxieme Expedition Antarctique Francaise 1908

-Charlewood, Edward Philips- Passages from the Life of a Naval Officer 1869

- Cherry-Garrard - Worst Journey in the World. 2 vols. London. 1922.

- Cheyne – Descriptive Catalogue of Fourteen Stereoscopic Views

- Cheyne - Commander Cheyne, R. N. … Proposed Commander of the new Expedition

- Chilton - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
- Chimmo - Eurylus. 1860

- Christensen - My Last Expedition to the Antarctic

- Christensen - Such is the Antarctic. 1935
- Collinson - Journal of HMS Enterprise. 1889
- Collinson - Three Voyages Martin Frobisher

- Conway - First Crossing of Spitsbergen. 1897.

- Conway - No Man’s Land 1906.

- Conway - With Ski & Sledge. 1898.

- Cook - Through the First Antarctic Night.
- Cook - Voyage towards the South Pole.

- Coxe - Account of the Russian Discoveries Between Asia and America.

- Cracroft - A Brave Man and his Belongings
- Cresswell - Series of Eight Color Sketches. 1854.

- Cumpston - Macquarie Island.

- Cyriax - Sir John Franklin’s Last Arctic Expedition. 1939.

- Danenhower - Lieut. Danenhower’s Narrative of the "Jeannette. 1882.
- Dash - The Cook-ed up Peary-oddical Dict.
- Davis - With the Aurora in the Antarctic 1911-1914.

- Davis - Aurora Relief Expedition. 1916

- Day - Search for the Northwest Passage.

- Debenham - British Antarctic Expedition, 1910

- Dole - American in Spitsbergen. 2 vols.

- Doorly - Voyages of the Morning. 1916.

- Douglas - Lands Forlorn.

- Driggs - Short Sketches from Oldest America.

- Drummond - Historic Tinned Foods.

- Drygalski - Zum Kontinent Des Eisigen Sudens. 1901.

- Dumont D’Urville - Voyage au Pole Sud …

- Dumont D’Urville - An Account in two Volumes of Two Voyages. 1987.

- Dunlop - Life of Vice-Admiral Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McLure

- Duse - Uter Pinguinen und Seehunden. 1905.
- Ellis - A Voyage to Hudson’s Bay. 1748.
- Ellsworth - Air Pioneering in the Arctic

- Evans - South with Scott. 1921

- Fanning - Voyages Round the World. 1833

- Fanning - Voyages to the South Seas 1830. 1838

- Faulkner - Eighteen Months on a Greenland Whaler

- Filchner - Zum Sechsten Erdteil. 1922

- Filippi - Ascent of Mount St. Elias.

- Findlay - On the Probable Course Pursued by Sir John Franklin’s Expedition.

- Fisher - Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions.

- Flaherty - My Eskimo Friends "Nanook" of the North. 1924.

- Fleming - Ziegler Polar Expedition. Scientific Results. 1907.

- Fluhman - Second In Command
- Forbes - The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald

- Force - Grinnell Land.

- Forster - History of the Voyages and Discoveries Made in the North.

- Forster - Voyage Round the World, commanded by Cook, 1772, 2 vols 1777

- Franklin - Letter to Viscount Palmerson.

- Franklin - Narrative of a Journey to the shores of the Polar Sea. 1st Edition

- Franklin - Narrative of a Second Expedition.

- Fricker - Antarctic Regions. 1900
- Gerlache de Gomery - Voyage De La Belgica. 1902

- Gerlache de Gomery - The Belgian Antarctic Expeditio
- Godfrey - Godfrey's Narrative Last Grinnell Expedition
- Goodsir - An Arctic Voyage Baffin Bay. 1850

- Great Britain - Parliamentary Papers (Arctic)

- Gunther - Notes and Sketches, Discovery Expedition… 1928

- Hakluyt Society - All relating to the Arctic.

- Hall - Life with the Esquimax, 2 vols 1864
- Hall - Has North Pole Been Discovered? 1917

- Hanbury - Sport and Travel in the Northland of Canada.

- Hanssen - Voyages of a Modern Viking.

- Harber - Report of … U.S.N. Search Missing People Jeannette. 1884.

- Harriman - Harriman Alaska Expedition.
- Harrison - In Search of Polar Continent.

- Hayes - Anarctica. 1928.

- Hayes - Pictures of Arctic Travel… 1881.

- Hearne - A Journey from Prince of Wales Fort… 1795.

- Hendrick - Memoirs of Hans Hendrick. 1878
- Henson - A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. 1912.

- Hickey - Thomas Hickey’s Narrative of the Last Arctic Expedition.

- Hobbs - The Discoveries of Antarctica within the American Sector,

- Hoenshel - Cruise of the Neptune.
- Hooker - Flora Boreali-Americana
- Hooper - Ten Months Among Tents of Tuski. 1853.

- Hoppin - A Diary Kept while with the Peary Arctic Expedition of 1896

- Howgate - Cruise of the Florence. 1879.
- Howgate - Polar Colonization.

- Hubbard - A Woman’s way Through Unknown Labrador. 1908.  first UK edition

- Huish - Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross… very good only

- Hurley - Argonauts of the South. 1925

- Inglefield - Summer Search for John Franklin.

- Innes-Lillingston - Land of the White Bear

- Jacka (Editor) - Mawson’s Antarctic Diaries.

 Jackson - Great Frozen Land. 1895.
 Jackson - Thousand Days in Arctic. 1899.

- James - Kane Portfolio.

- Jenkins - Voyage of the U.S. Exploring Squadron-Wilkes. 1850

- Johansen - With Nansen in the North. 1899.
- Johnson - Arctic Expedition of 1875-6

- Joyce - South Polar Trail. 1929.

- Kane - Access to an Open Polar Sea.

- Kane - U.S. Grinnell Expedition … 1853.
- Kennedy - Short Narrative 2nd Voyage of the Prince Albert.
- King - Franklin Expedition From First to Last.
- King - Narrative of Journey to Shores Arctic Ocean. Two volumes. 1836.

- Klutschak - Als Eskmo unter den Eskimos. 1881.

- Koolemans-Beynen - De Reis Der Pandora.

- Lachambre & Machuron - Andree's Balloon Expedition 1898
- Laing - Account Voyage to Spitsbergen 1815-18.

- Lamont - Seasons with the Sea Horses; … 1861
- Lanman - Farthest North. 1885.

- Lashly - Diary of W. Lashly. 1938-9.

- Lauridsen - Russian Explorations, 1725-1743. 1889.

- Lecointe - Expedition Antarctique Belge. Au Pays des Manchots.
- Lefroy, J. H. (John Henry) - Autobiography of Sir John Henry Lefroy (edited by Lady Lefroy) - 1895
- Lewin - Did Peary Reach the Pole? 1911.

- Lewin - Great North Pole Fraud. 1935.
- Lillingston - Land of the White Bear 1876

- M’Clure - Melancholy Fate of Sir John Franklin.

- M’Clure – Discovery of the NW Passage. 1856.
- M’Cormick - Voyages of Discovery. 2 vols. 1884
- M'Cormick - Narrative of a Boat Expedition up Wellington Channel
- M'Dougall - Uneventful Voyage HMS Resolute. 1857.

- M’Lean - Notes of Twenty-Five Years’ Service Hudson’s Bay Territory. 1849.
- MacGahern - Under the Northern Lights.

- MacIntosh - Biographical Memoir of the late … 1847.

- Mackenzie - Voyages from Montreal on the River St. Laurence. 1801.

- MacKey - Hazen Court-Martial.
- MacMillian - How Peary Reached the Pole.

- Manby - Journal of Voyage to Greenland.

- Mangles - Papers & Despatches relating Arctic Searching Expedition.
- Maps – Folding Pocket Maps of Arctic Regions
- Markham - The Arctic Navy List 1875

- Markham - Franklins’ Footsteps.
- Markham - Life of Sir John Franklin.
- Markham - Lands of Silence.

- Markham - Northward Ho!
- Markham -Threshold of Unknown Region.

- Mason - The Frozen Northland. c1910.

- Mawson - Home of the Blizzard 1911-14. 2 vols. 1915

- Mawson - Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14. Scientific Reports
- May - Series of Fourteen Sketches. 1855
- Miertsching - Reise Tagebuch dea Missonars.

- Mikkelsen - Conquering the Arctic Ice. 1909.

- Mikkelsen - Lost in the Arctic. 1913.

- Mill - Siege of the South Pole. 1905

- Morrell - Narrative of Four Voyages, 1822-31. 1832.

- Morton - Dr. Kane’s Arctic Voyage; Explanatory

- Moseley - Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger. 1872-76. 1879

- Moss - Shores of the Polar Sea. A Narrative … 1878.
- Mulock - Charts of the Discovery Antarctic Expedition. 1908

- Murdoch - From Edinburgh to the Antarctic. 1894.

- Murphy - Oceanic Birds of South America. 2 vols. 1936.
- Murray - Antarctic Manual 1901.

- Murray - Kalli, the Esquimaux Christian.
- Murray & Marston - Antarctic Days.

- Nares - Official Report Recent Arctic Expedition.

- Nares - Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea. 2 vols. 1878.

- National Antarctic Expedition 1901-04 - Scientific Reports.
- Noble - After Icebergs with a Painter.

- Nordenskiold - Antarctic or Two years amongst the ice. 1905

- Nunn - Narrative of Wreck of Favorite on the Island of Desolation. 1850

- O’Reily - Greenland, the adjacent Seas and NW Passage… 1818.

- Osborn - Letters of the Relief of Sir John Franklin’s Expediiton.
- Osborn - Career  Last Voyage Fate of Franklin.
- Osborn & McDougall - Facsimile of Illustrated Arctic News 1852
- Osborn - Stray Leaves from Arctic Journey. London 1852 only.

- Palmer - Thulia: a tale of the Antarctic. 1843

- Parry – Journal of a Third Voyage for the Discovery of a NW Passage. 1826.

- Parry – Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole. 1828

- Peary - Any Signed or Limited Edition.

- Peary - North Pole. Hubbard Edition. 1910
- Peary - Secrets of Polar Travel. 1917.

- Pennant - Arctic Zoology.

- Penny - Letter to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

- Petermann - Search for Franklin.

- Petermann - Historical Summary of the Search for Sir John Franklin

- Phipps - A Voyage towards the North Pole… 1774.
- Pike – Through Barren Grounds Northern Canada.
- Pike - Through the Subarctic Forests.

- Pim - An Earnest Appeal to the British Public.

- Playbills – Arctic

 Ponting - Great White South. 1921 1st Edition.

- Porden - Arctic Expedition. 1818.

- Priestley - Antarctic Research.
- Priestly - Antarctic Adventure: Scott's Northern Party.

- Pullen - Pullen Expedition. 1979.

- Rae - Narrative Expedition to Shore of the Arctic Seas. 1850
- Rae - Arctic Rewards & their Claimants.
- Rasmussen - Greenland by the Polar Sea.
- Rasmussen - People of the Polar North.
- Rasmussen - The Eagles' Gift.
- Rasmussen - Eskimo Folk Tales.

 Richardson - Arctic Searching Expeditions. 1851. 2 vols.

 Richardson - Fauna Boreali-Americana

- Robson - An Account of Six Years Residence Hudson’s Bay … 1752.

- Ross - Ships Erebus and Terror. 1841

- Ross – Arctic Expedition, with a Summer of Searching. 1850.

- Ross - Rear Admiral Sir John Franklin. 1855.

- Ross - Voyage of Discovery .. in His Majesty’s Ships Isabella and Alexander … 1819.
- Ross - Voyage of Discovery & Research to Southern & Antarctic Regions. 2 vol.
- Ross - Explanation & answer to Braithwaite.
- Ross - Appendix to Narrative 2nd Voyage. 1835
- Russell - Explorations in Far North 1898

- Rymill - Southern Lights. 1938

- Sabine - Remarks on Account of Late Voyage.

- [Schuetze] - William Henry Schuetze. Privately Printed 1903.

- Schwatka - Search for Franklin. 1882.

- Scoresby - An Account of the Arctic Regions, … 2 vols.

- Scoresby - Franklin Expedition. 1850.

- Scoresby - Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery: …

- Scott - Voyages of Discovery. 2 vols. First Edition or Signed copies only
- Seeman - Narrative HMS Herald. Two volumes. 1853

- Seton-Karr - Shores and Alps of Alaska.

- Shackleton - In the Heart of the Antarctic.  Limited editions or dust jacketed copies

- Shackleton – South

- Shackleton - The South Polar Times:   Set or odd volumes originals and Limited Edition Reprint

- Shackleton - Aurora Australis 1809-09.

- Shackleton - The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

- Sharpe - Ocean Steam Navigation. 1860.
- Sheldon - Wilderness of Denali 1930 only
- Sheldon - Wilderness Upper Yukon.
- Shillinglaw - Narrative Arctic Discovery. 1850 / 1851
- Simpson – Narrative of the Discoveries on N. Coast America.
- Simpson - Life & Travels Thomas Simpson. 1845.

- Skewes - Sir John Franklin.
- Snow - Voyage of Prince Albert. 1851

- Snow - A Catalogue of the Arctic collections in the British Museum with a  List  of the Arctic Relics in the United Service Museum
- Snow - Paper on Lost Polar Expedition. 1860
- Snow - In Forbidden Seas.

- Sonntag - Professor Sonntag’s Thrilling Narrative.
- South Polar Times, 3 vols or odds.

 Stefansson - The Problem of Meighen Island.

- Stuart - Relief of the Franklin Expedition.
- Stuck - 10000 Miles by Dog Sled.
- Stuck - Voyages on the Yukon.
- Stuck - Winter Circuit of Our Arctic Coast.
- Sutherland - Journal Voyage Baffin’s Bay.

- Swire - Voyage of the Challenger

- Tanner - Outlines of the Geography, Life & Customs of Newfoundland-Labrador. 2 vols.

- Taylor - Life on a Whaler or Antarctic Adventures. 1929.

- Taylor - With Scott: the Silver Lining. 1916.

- Thomson - Voyage of the Challenger. 2 vols. 1878.
– [Tomlinson] - SUMMER IN THE ANTARCTIC REGION

- Traill - Life of Sir John Franklin.
- Tremblay - Cruise of Minnie Maud

- Van Campen - Dutch in the Arctic Seas …

- Vidal - A Poem upon the Life and Character of Sir John Frankli

- Walsh - Last Cruise of the Miranda.

- Washington - Eskimaux and English Vocabulary.

- Washington - Greenland-Eskimo Vocabulary.

- Webster - Narrative of a Voyage to Southern Atlantic Ocean. 2 vols. 1824.

- Weddell - Voyage towards the South Pole, …

- Weld - Arctic Expeditions. A Lecture.
- White - Probably Fate of Franklin 1852

- Whittaker - Arctic Eskimo

- Wild - Shackleton's Last Voyage. 1923

- Wilkes - Narrative of the U.S. Exploring Expedition. 6 vols. 1845.

- Wilson - Diary of the Discovery Expedition.

- Wilson - Diary of the Terra Nova Expedition.
- Woollen - The Inside passage. 2 vols. 1924.

- Worlsey - Endurance. 1931

- Wright - New Light on Franklin

- Wyld - Chart of the Arctic Regions.

- Young - Cruise of Pandora 1879
- Young - Two Voyages of Pandora 1879

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