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A Catalogue of Original Accounts of Northern Exploration Meridian Rare Books Telephone: +44 (0)20 8694 2168 PO Box 51650 Email: Info@Meridianrarebooks.Co.Uk ARCTICA A catalogue of original accounts of Northern Exploration Meridian Rare Books Telephone: +44 (0)20 8694 2168 PO Box 51650 Email: [email protected] London www.meridianrarebooks.co.uk SE8 4XW VAT Reg. No.: GB 919 1146 28 United Kingdom Our books are collated in full and our descriptions aim to be accurate. We can provide further information and images of any item on request. If you wish to view an item from this catalogue, please contact us to make suitable arrangements. All prices are nett pounds sterling. VAT will be charged within the EU on the price of any item not in a binding. Postage is additional and will be charged at cost. Any book may be returned if unsatisfactory, in which case please advise us in advance. The present catalogue offers a selection of our stock. To receive a full listing of books in your area of interest, please enquire. Cover image from item 78. ©Meridian Rare Books 2020 1 [Amundsen, Roald.] Various Papers on the Projected Cooperation with Roald Amundsen’s North Polar Expedition. Kristiania: Grøndahl & Søns Boktrykkeri, 1920. £150 First edition. 4to. pp. [i], 27; one sketch map, 4 illusts.; very good in the original printed wrappers, minor discolouration, label removed from upper wrapper, a little creased. AB 12562 (also with separate entries for each paper). Geofysiske Publikationer vol. 1, no. 4. Four papers, by Theodor Hesselberg, the Norwegian Geophysical Commission, Ole Krogness and Carl Størmer, relating to the establishment of observation stations and scientific work during the Maud expedition. 2 Amundsen, Roald, Lincoln Ellsworth, et al. Our Polar Flight. The Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Flight. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925. £125 First American edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 373; numerous photo. illusts.; minor foxing, small marginal tear at pp. 357-8, else very good in the original blue cloth, gilt. AB 411. Translated from the original Norwegian edition of the same year, this book is a narrative of the North Polar Flight of 1925 undertaken to explore the unknown region between Svalbard and the North Pole. Unlike the original edition, the American edition contains an additional chapter by Lincoln Ellsworth. 3 [Amundsen, Roald & Lincoln Ellsworth.] Air Pioneering in the Arctic. The Two Polar Flights of Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth. Part I: The 1925 Flight from Spitzbergen to 88º North. Part II: The First Crossing of the Polar Sea, 1926. New York: National Americana Society, 1929. £1750 Second printing (same year as first). Folio. pp. [x], 127, [4]; 73 fine photogravure plates including a few maps and facsimile letters; some occasional offsetting from plates to versos, else very good in the original blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., slight fading to spine, contained in slipcase. AB 39680. "Collection of articles reprinted from Amundsen and Ellsworth's Our Polar Flight and First Crossing of the Polar Sea . and from other publications; in handsome format richly illustrated" (Arctic Bibliography). This deluxe publication seems to have been issued at Ellsworth's behest following Amundsen's death (the final leaves of text are Ellsworth’s tribute to him). Given that the book seldom comes onto the market, few copies can have been printed, though the book itself gives no indication of the number of copies produced, and it went into this second printing in the same year as the first edition. The photogravures reproduce some of the striking images from the two flying expeditions over the Arctic, as well as images of the planes and of the Norge airship. 4 Amundsen, Roald. Roald Amundsens Opdagelsesreiser [Roald Amundsen’s Explorations]. Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1928-30. £475 First collected or memorial edition (Minneutgaven) in 35 original parts. 8vo. pp. 382 [1], 371 [1], 367 [1], 281 [1]; several coloured plates, 4 folding maps, photo. illusts., sketch maps; very good in the original pictorial wrappers, part 1 in variant blue printed wrappers, minor staining to lower margins of prelims to 2 issues, staining to upper margin of front wrapper and prelims. of final issue, minor marginal tears or chips to a few margins of wrappers, which overall are a little creased, overall in very good condition. Not in AB; Spence 26; Rosove 8.B2. These volumes were published as a memorial edition of Amundsen’s works, following his disappearance in 1928 during the search for the Norge expedition. The set comprises the account of his attainment of the South Pole (vol. II), and of voyages through the Northwest Passage (vol. I), Northeast Passage (vol. III), and his attempts on the North Pole (vol. IV). The volumes were issued in parts, and buyers were able to acquire bindings for the parts, to make up a four-volume set; notifications for the bindings appear at the front of parts 10, 19, 28 and 35 (these notifications also contain instructions to the binder for the positioning of maps and illustrations, discarded in the finished, bound set). 5 [Andrée, S.A.] Edward Adam-Ray, translator. The Andrée Diaries, Being the Diaries and Records of S.A. Andrée, Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel written during their Balloon Expedition to the North Pole in 1897 and Discovered on White Island in 1930, together with a Complete Record of the Expedition and Discovery. John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., [1931]. £150 First English edition. 8vo. pp. Xx, 471; 3 folding maps including one coloured, numerous illustrations from photographs; some spotting, else very good in the original red cloth, gilt, mottling to surface of cloth of boards, in the original d.-w., which is a little worn and soiled. AB 17273. The story of Andrée's ill-fated 1897 balloon expedition to the North Pole. In August, 1930, a Norwegian Expedition visited the south-western point of White Island, the easternmost portion of the Svalbard Archipelago. The party discovered the remains of the Andrée Expedition, lost thirty-three years before. The finds were investigated and catalogued, the most important among them being Andrée's diary, which appeared as the present work. 6 Arctic Club. The Arctic Club Manual. Published for the Members. New York, 1906. £375 First edition. 8vo. pp. 63, [2, part title]; port. frontis. of the Professor Wm. H. Brewer,, 10 ports.; without the leaf of errata found in some copies, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, with loosely inserted Arctic Club Bulletin of Information nos. 1-4, January-April 1907. The Arctic Club, based in New York, originated in the 1894 expedition organised by Frederick A. Cook. After their return, members of the expedition met to celebrate their common interests, and over the years the membership grew. The present manual contains a list of the membership as of 1906, the Club constitution, ‘A Chronological list of Arctic and Antarctic Expeditions’ compiled by Albert Operti, and an In Memoriam section with portraits of recently deceased members. Unusually, this copy also contains some loosely inserted copies of the Club’s first four bulletins, which were issued semi-regularly until 1912 when the Arctic Club was absorbed by the Explorers Club, 7 Barrington, Daines. Miscellanies. London: J. Nichols, 1781. £1450 First edition. 4to. pp. iv, viii, 468, 471*-477*, [469]-540, 547-557, [1, list of plates]; 2 eng. maps, 2 portraits, 5 genealogical tables; occasional mild browning to text, one table torn without loss, else very good in 19th c. half calf, spine gilt, rubbed, bruised to foot of spine, previous owner’s inscription to titlepage, and subsequent owner’s bookplate to front pastedown. By training a lawyer, Daines Barrington (1727-1800) developed interests in many disciplines and became a member of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. The present work collects together several papers on a variety of topics. Of particular interest is his 'Tracts on the Possibility of reaching the North Pole', which provides an overview of 16th, 17th and 18th century Arctic explorations (pp. 1-124, it appeared as a separate edition in 1818); and a translation of the journal of a Spanish voyage to the West Coast of North America in 1775. Miscellanies also contains Barrington's account of his meetings with the young Wolfgang Mozart, who visited England at the age of 8 and gave both public and private audiences attended by Barrington; a portrait of Mozart prefaces this section of the book. 8 Barron, William. Old Whaling Days. Hull: William Andrews & Co.; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co., Ltd., 1895. £95 First edition. 8vo. pp. x, 211; embrowning at front and rear, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, a little discolouration to edges of boards. AB 1094. The author took part in many whaling voyages into the Arctic, and describes also meetings with Belcher and M’Clintock during the Franklin searches. 9 Bessels, Emil. Die Amerikanische Nordpol-Expedition. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1879. £750 First Edition. Large 8vo. pp. xx, 647; woodcut illusts. to text, six full page illusts., one folding table and several diagrams, folding colour map; fine in the original brown cloth with titling in silver to front board and spine. AB 1503; Holland p. 286. Bessels was the surgeon and chief scientist on Charles Francis Hall’s ill-fated Polaris expedition, 1871-3. Hall died on 8 November 1871 in mysterious circumstances, and Bessels was accused of poisoning him with arsenic. A breakdown in discipline later resulted in the crew splitting up, both parties eventually reaching safety. An official naval board of enquiry was set up following the return of the expedition, which found that Hall had died of natural causes. Bessels’ account provides an overview of the expedition’s activities and scientific findings, and includes details of Hall’s death.
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