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Credit: Sales catalogue 43: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![}98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 84, CHARING CROSS. ROAD, LONDON, W.C.2 15 VOYAGES—continued. VANCOUVER (Capt. GEORGE) A VOYAGE of DISCOVERY to the NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN, and round the WORLD, in which the Coast of NORTH-WEST AMERICA has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed, undertaken . . . principally with a View to ascertain the Existence of any Navigable Communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans, and performed in the years 1790 to 1795, in the ‘“‘ Discovery,”’ Sloop of War, and Armed Tender, ‘“‘ CHATHAM,” under the command of Capt. G. VANCOUVER, with chart and 17 plates, 3 vols, 4to., contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, Printed for G. G. and F. Robinson ; and #. Edwards, 1798 £9/15/- Name in ink on titles and a few plates partly water-stained. Lacks the folio atlas, the reprint of which can be supplied for £12 net. VOYAGES—wvide ARCTIC REGIONS, post ; EXPLORERS, ante ; SOUTH AMERICA : Frezier (A. de), post. ARCTIC REGIONS. INCLUDING BARRINGTON (Hon. D.) The PossIBiLity of APPROACHING the NORTH POLE ASSERTED, New EDITION, with an Appendix, containing Papers on the same Subject, and on a NORTH-WEST PASSAGE, by COLONEL BEAUFOY, with folding map, 8vo., half russia, 1818 18/- BARROW (JOHN) A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY of VOYAGES into the ARCTIC REGIONS ; undertaken chiefly for the purpose of DISCOVERING a NORTH-EAST, NORTH-WEST, or POLAR PASSAGE between the ATLANTIC and PaciFIc: from the EARLIEST PERIODS of SCANDINAVIAN NAVIGATION, to the DEPARTURE of the RECENT EXPEDITIONS, under the Orders of CAPTAINS Ross and BUCHAN, folding map, 8vo., contemp. calf (joints weak), 1818 15/- BEECHEY (Capt. FREDERICK WILLIAM) NARRATIVE of a VOYAGE to the PACIFIC and BEERING’S STRAIT, to co-operate with the POLAR EXPEDITIONS: performed in H.M.S. BLOssoM, in the years 1825 to 1828, in Two Parts; [with an Appendix containing a vocabulary of Words of the Western Esquimaux, Meteorological Observations, Natural History, etc.], large folding map, 2 charts, and 23 plates (some foxed), 2 vols in 1, 4to., old half calf (joints weak), 1831 £2/2/- 23ELCHER (CapTaIN SIR EDWARD) The LAST of the ARCTIC VOYAGES ; being a Narrative of the EXPEDITION in H.M.S. ASSISTANCE, in SEARCH of SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, during the years 1852-54 ; with NOTES on the NATURAL HIsTory, by SIR JOHN RICHARDSON, PROF. OWEN, THOMAS BELL, J. W. SALTER, and LOVELL REEVE, with 4 charts, 36 plates (some coloured) and 25 woodcuts, 2 vols, roy. 8vo., half calf gilt, 1855 £1/1/- CHART of Davis Strait and BAFFIN Bay to 75 degrees, 45 longitude, NORTH LATITUDE, as published 1875, with corrections to June, 1890, measuring 25+ by 414 in., mounted on linen, enclosed in 4to. cloth case, Admiralty, 1890 10/- CHART of the NoRTH PoLar SEA, as published 1855, with corrections to March, 1882, measuring 233 by 30 in., mounted on linen, enclosed in 4to. cloth case, Admiralty, 1882 10/- CHART of SMITH SOUND, KENNEDY, and ROBESON CHANNELS, as published April, 1875, with large corrections to August, 1885, measuring 25? by 382 in., mounted on linen, enclosed in 4to. cloth case, Admiralty, 1885 10/- COOK (FREDERICK A.) To the Tor of the CONTINENT : Discovery, Exploration and Ad- venture in Sub-Arctic Alaska ; The First Ascent of Mt. McKinley, 1903-06 ; with frontis- piece in colour, 68 illustrations from photographs and drawings, 9 maps and 4 diagrams, roy. 8vo., cloth, 1909 15/- DE WINDT (Harry) THROUGH the GOLD-FIELDs of ALASKA to BERING STRAITS ; with a map and 33 illustrations, 8vo., half green morocco, t.e.g., 1898 15/- Former owner’s name and inscription on half-title. EGEDE (Hans) A DESCRIPTION of GREENLAND, NEW EDITION [SECOND], with an His- torical Introduction and a Life of the Author, map and numerous engravings on wood, 8Vv0., half calf (joints cracked), 1818 16/- ANOTHER Copy, neatly rebound in old style sheep, nice copy, 1818 £1/8/-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30859335_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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