Arctic from D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)

[Auckland, N.Z.: SeTo Publishing, 1988]. Facsimile Edition, Limited to 375 numbered copies plus 20 'hors commerce', this copy unnumbered, of the first book produced in the Antarctic. Devised by Shackleton to occupy his crew's time and maintain their spirits during the dark days in cramped quarters of the 1907-09 Nimrod British Antarctic Expedition's overwintering on Cape Royds in April-July, 1908,… Read more about this item

London: J.W.Dent & Co., 1897. First Edition of this account of the author’s exploration of the interior of West Spitsbergen in 1896. In all Conway together with his companions Gregory, Trevor-Battye and Garwood made thirteen mountain ascents including one of Mt. Hedgehog, conducted boat expeditions in most fjords, compiled a survey sketch of approximately 600 square miles of… Read more about this item

New York: Greenwood Press, [1969]. Facsimile Reprint. 4to. pp. xxx, [2], 571, [1]errata. in this copy p. 457 is blank (printing error? – presumably this is true of other copies). 9 maps & 30 plates (some folding). cloth. Fine copy. elala5881

Toronto, Buffalo & London: University of Toronto Press, [1992]. First Edition, Translated & Edited by William Barr. The journal had never been previously published in any other language. In 1852 De Bray sailed on board the Resolute as part of Sir Edward Belcher’s squadron bound for the Canadian Arctic in search of John Franklin and his crew, missing… Read more about this item

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, [1970]. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 253. 2 text maps (1 double-page) & 21 illus. on 8 double-side plates. index. bds. dw. (dw. price-clipped & with tears & some loss, the book very good except for slight loss to lower margin of 1 leaf). elala5866

London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips And Co., 1821. First Edition. “Letters from the Parry Expedition, 1819-20, describing the voyage and the wintering at Winter Harbour, Melville Island, the Canadian arctic waters and their ice, the arctic night, the activities of the crews and the weather.” (Arctic Bib.) Arctic Bib. 9949. Lande 1288 (no mention of plates). Sabin… Read more about this item

[Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1980]. Second Enlarged Edition, the First Canadian Edition, of Christian’s diary recording the ill-fated trapping expedition to the Barren Lands undertaken with his older cousin, John Hornby, and a young companion, Harold Adlard, in 1926-27. Unfortunately they had insufficient food to survive the winter and perished from starvation near the Thelon River, Northwest Territories. Christian,… Read more about this item

[Edmonton: 1902]. C.W. Mathers began his photographic career with the Edmonton branch studio of the Calgary photographic partnership of Boorne & May. According to Alberta photohistorian Brock Silversides, Mathers was Edmonton's only photographer for several years, including the first two years of the Klondike Gold Rush. In 1901 he travelled with a Hudson's Bay Company trader to Fort… Read more about this item

Edmonton: M.G.Hurtig Ltd., [1971]. Facsimile Reprint. 4to. pp. lvi, 458. 4 folding plates & 5 folding maps. cloth. dw. (short tear to upper edge of dw. else very good). elala5871

[Wakefield]: S. R. Publishers Limited & [New York]: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967. Facsimile Reprint. 4to. pp. 4 p.l., 211, [1], [2]ads. folding map. facsimile title. cloth. Fine copy. elala5867

London, New York & Melbourne: Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, 1899. First Edition of the English Translation. Johansen accompanied Nansen on the First Fram Expedition, 1893-96, to investigate the polar basin north of Eurasia. The pair made a sledge journey toward the North Pole and wintered on Franz Josef’s Land. Arctic Bib. 8185. 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 351… Read more about this item

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, [1962]. First Edition of this “authoritative biography” of the English explorer John Hornby in which “this restless figure is re-created and related to his contemporaries with whom he was associated during his wanderings in the Barren Lands.” (Story p. 362) In Inheriting a Canoe Paddle: The Canoe in Discourses of English-Canadian Nationalism (2013), Misao… Read more about this item

New York: Julian Messner, Inc., [1953]. First Edition, Second Printing of the English Translation. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., [1], vii-x, [1], 422. 2 double-sided plates. maps on end-papers. index. cloth. A very good copy in tattered & dj. Signed by Freuchen. elala5869

Edmonton: M.G.Hurtig Ltd., [1971]. Facsimile Reprint. 4to. pp. cxxxii, 412, [2]errata. frontis. portrait & 3 large folding maps (1 in colour). cloth. dw. (spine of dw. faded & with chip to upper edge of spine, else very good). elala5877

Dublin: Printed For P.Byrne And J.Rice, 1796. First Dublin Edition of a classic of North American travel. Hearne's journal holds an especially honoured place in the annals of Arctic exploration, and Hearne "will always be remembered as the first white man that ever gazed on the dreary expanse of the Arctic or Frozen Ocean from the northern shores… Read more about this item

London: Ackermann & Co., 15th March, 1852. First Edition. A lithographed facsimile of the original manuscript monthly newspaper issued on board the H.M.S. Resolute during a forced wintering in Barrow Strait between Griffith and Cornwallis Island by the Franklin search expedition commanded by Horatio Thomas Austin. The expedition was distinguished for having discovered the site of Franklin’s first… Read more about this item

Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1897. Other papers include ‘Report on the Geology of the French River Sheet Ontario’ by Robert Bell (large folding coloured map), and ‘Report on a Traverse of the Northern Part of the Labrador Peninsula from Richmond Gulf to Ungava Bay’ by A.P.Low (4 plates) – Arctic Bib. 10373, ‘Report on the Geology of South-West… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown, And Company, 1907. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Arctic Bib. 6114. 12mo. pp. [viii], 325. frontis. portrait & 12 maps (some folding). original pictorial cloth (fore-edge & lower edge of rear cover frayed). dola2189

[New York]: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, [1931]. First Edition. An account of the plans for launching the first submarine expedition to the arctic led by Australian Hubert Wilkins and funded by wealthy American financier Lincoln Ellsworth. Unfortunately the Nautilus was plagued with mechanical problems throughout the 1931 expedition and although some scientific experiments were conducted, it failed in… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1886. First Edition. Account of the American expedition of 1881-84, based at Fort Conger, Lady Franklin Bay, on the east coast of Ellesmere Island, which explored the north coast of Greenland from Cape Bryant to Cape Washington, the interior and west coast of Grinnell Land, and Hayes Sound on Ellesmere. All but seven… Read more about this item