GERT JAN BESTEBREURTJE Rare Books Catalogue 195: Polar Exploration & Whaling Illustration on cover no. 50 LAAN, Adolf van der & Siewert van der MEULEN. 'T Binnen seylen der Groenlands vaarders. (Augsburg, Johann Balthasar Probst, ca. 1750). GERT JAN BESTEBREURTJE Rare Books Langendijk 8, 4132 AK Vianen The Netherlands Telephone +31 - (0)347 - 322548 E-mail:
[email protected] Visit our Web-page at http://www.gertjanbestebreurtje.com CATALOGUE 195 POLAR EXPLORATION & WHALING Prices are quoted in euro, for clients within the European Community 9 % VAT will be added to the prices. The first flight over the North Pole 1 AMUNDSEN, Roald & Lincoln ELLSWORTH. De eerste vlucht over de Noordpool. Vertaald door Louis Blok. Amsterdam, H.J.W. Becht, (1926). Cloth (discoloured). With ca. 120 photographic illustrations. 282 pp. € 35,00 € 35,00 First published in Oslo in 1926: Den Første flukt over Polhavet. - Narrative of the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile North Polar Flight, 1926, in the airship Norge. The first North Pole flight from King's Bay, West Spitsbergen, over the North Pole to Teller, Alaska. Arctic Bibliography 410. Description of Iceland, Greenland and Davis Strait. 2 ANDERSON, Johann. Beschryving van Ysland, Groenland en de Straat Davis. Uit het Hoogduits vertaalt door J.D.J. waar by gevoegt zyn de verbeteringen door Niels Horrebow. Amsterdam, Jan van Dalen, 1756. 2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine richly gilt (upper front hinge sl. splitting). With fine engraved frontispiece, folding map and 5 engraved plates (2 folding depicting whales). (16),286,(6); (8),158 pp. € 2.750,00 € 2.750,00 Second and best edition; first posthumously published in Hamburg in 1746 Nachrichten von Island, Grönland und der Strasse Davis.