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OXLEY, J. Macdonald. North overland with Franklin. London, The Religious Tract Society, (1901).Original pictorial cloth. With plates by Lancelot Speed. 256; (16) pp. Children's book dealing with John Franklin's Arctic voyage. - Nice binding. [Boeknr.: 36341 ]

€ 35,00

PALIN, Michael. Erebus. Het verhaal van een schip. Vertaald door Annemie de Vries. Amsterdam, Spectrum, (2019). Pictorial boards, with dust-jacket. With illustrations and coloured plates. 368 pp. The ship Erebus took part in the Ross expedition of 1839-1843, and was abandoned in 1848 during the third Franklin expedition. The sunken wreck was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait expedition in September 2014. [Boeknr.: 36293 ]

€ 25,00

PALLAS, (Peter Simon). Voyages du professeur Pallas, dans plusieurs provinces de l'empire de Russie et dans l'Asie septentrionale; traduits de l'Allemand par le C. Gauthier de la Peyronie. Nouvelle édition, revue et enrichie de notes par les CC. Lamarck & Langlès. Paris, Maradan, 1794.8 volumes + atlas volume. 8vo and large 4to. Contemporary half calf (some extremities of spines sl. dam.). Atlas volume with 108 engraved plates and maps, many folding or double-page. Second French edition, first published in 1788-1793; translation of the German edition Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. St. Petersburg 1771-1776 . - The German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and at the request of Catherine, he was placed in charge of an academy expedition into Russia and Siberia. The expedition set out from Moscow in April 1768 with five naturalists and seven astronomers. Pallas arrived back in St. Petersburg in July 1774 with a vast amount of data and many fossil specimens, but broken in health (Howgego p.784). His expedition was concerned with natural history in the widest sense, including geography, agriculture, and other disciplines.Bibl. Russica II, p.72; Wood p.511; Atabey Collection 918. [Boeknr.: 33654 ]

€ 2250,00

PAPANIN, Ivan Dmitriyevich. Le sauvetage de la mission scientifique russe au Pole Nord. Issue of L'Illustration.Nr. 4958. Paris, 1938. Folio. With illustrations. In 1937-1938 Papanin was in charge of the famous expedition North Pole-1. Four researchers, Ivan Papanin, Ernst Krenkel, Yevgeny Fyodorov and Petr Shirshov, landed on the drifting ice-floes in an airplane flown by Mikhail Vodopyanov. For 234 days, Papanin's team carried out a wide range of scientific observations in the near-polar zone. [Boeknr.: 36218 ]

€ 18,00

PARRY, William Edward. Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-20, in his majesty's ships Hecla and Griper. With an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations. 2nd edition. London, John Murray, 1821.4to. Later half calf with old boards, spine gilt with black title-label. With 6 engraved charts (4 folding), 5 lithographed profils and 9 aquatint plates by W. Westall after Beechey. (8),XXIX,310,CLXXIX pp. First edition published the same year. - 'Parry had sailed to the Arctic under Sir John Ross on the controversial voyage of 1818. In the spring of 1819 Parry was appointed to the command of this expedition, Frederick William Beechey was a member of this party. Parry, reaching Lancaster Sound in July, sailed through, and explored and namend Barrow Strait, Prince Regent inlet, and Wellington Channel. Entering what has since been called Parry or Viscount Melville Sound in September, he reached longitude 110� West, thereby earning a reward of � 5.000 that was offered by Parliament to the first ship's company that should attain that meridian. He also discovered Melville island and others of the Parry Islands. After being frozen in for ten months, the ships were released on August 10, 1820, but the ice prevented further progress westward, and Parry returned to England (Hill 1311). The first (and most succesful) of Parry's four voyages under his own command for the search for the Northwest passage. It was one of the most important voyages in the history of Arctic exploration. - A fine copy of a cornerstone book of Arctic Exploration.Arctic Bibl. 13145; Sabin 58860; TPL 1205; Stam, Books on ice, p.24; Howgego II, p.465. [Boeknr.: 13758 ]

€ 1450,00

PARRY, William Edward. Reis ter ontdekking van eene noordwestelijke doorvaart, uit de Atlantische in de Stille Zee, gedaan in de jaaren 1819 en 1820 door de schepen The Hecla en The Griper. Uit het Engelsch. Amsterdam, Johannes van der Hey, 1822.Later half sprinkled calf, spine lettered in gilt. With engraved title-page with oval view of the ships The Hecla and The Griper (sl.soiled), folding aquatint plate depicting the Hecla and The Griper, folding plan of the harbour on Melville Island, and large folding map (ca. 34 x 64 cm) with hand-coloured routes. XII,333, (2) pp. First Dutch edition; first English edition of Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. London, 1821. -- 'Parry had sailed to the Arctic under Sir John Ross on the controversial voyage of 1818. In the spring of 1819 Parry was appointed to the command of this expedition, Frederick William Beechey was a member of this party. Parry, reaching Lancaster Sound in July, sailed through, and explored and namend Barrow Strait, Prince Regent inlet, and Wellington Channel. Entering what has since been called Parry or Viscount Melville Sound in September, he reached longitude 110� West, thereby earning a reward of � 5.000 that was offered by Parliament to the first ship's company that should attain that meridian. He also discovered Melville island and others of the Parry Islands. After being frozen in for ten months, the ships were released on August 10, 1820, but the ice prevented further progress westward, and Parry returned to England (Hill 1311). The first (and most succesful) of Parry's four voyages under his own command for the search for the Northwest passage. It was one of the most important voyages in the history of Arctic exploration. - A fine copy of a the rare Dutch edition.Cat. NHSM I, p.304-306; not in Tiele; Arctic Bibl. 13145; Sabin 58863; TPL 1206; Stam, Books on ice, p.24; Howgego II, p.465. [Boeknr.: 25663 ]

€ 1450,00

PEARD, George. To the Pacific and Arctic with Beechey. The journal of lieutenant George Peard of H.M.S. 'Blossom' 1825-1828. Edited by Barry M. Gough. Cambridge., 1973. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 2 maps and 6 plates. X,272 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 143. - Peard's journal of the voyage of Captain Frederick William Beechey is a lucid account of one of the most comprehensive British naval voyages to the Pacific since the days of Cook. [Boeknr.: 20994 ]

€ 30,00

PEARY, Robert Edwin. The North Pole. With an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.Large 4to. Original vellum with large gilt medallion of Peary on frontcover, gilt spine with head of a polar bear, and also a gilt polar bear on backcover, uncut, top edge gilt (ties lacking). With folding coloured map, 4 photogravures and 112 tipped-in photographic illustrations. XII, 326 pp. First edition, limited edition de luxe of 500 numbered and signed copies by Peary and R.A. Bartlett. - The North Pole and the Cook-Peary controversy. Robert Edwin Peary (1856 - 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for, in April 1909, leading an expedition that claimed to be the first to have reached the geographic North Pole. Peary's claim was widely debated along with a competing claim made by Frederick Cook. The narrative of Peary's expedition of 1908-1910 contains its organization, personnel, the voyage, the Roosevelt's passage through the ice of Smith Sound-Robeson Channel and winter quarters at Camp Jesup, Cape Sheridan, north Ellesmere Island. - A fine copy.Arctic Bibl. 13230; Stam, Books on ice, p.75; Howgego III, p.479-483. [Boeknr.: 36767 ]

€ 1950,00

PEARY. Het Noordpoolkind. Marietje Peary's reisverhaal door haarzelf en haar moeder verteld. Bewerkt door B. de Graaff-van Capelle. Amsterdam, Scheltens & Giltay, (1909). 4to. Original decorated cloth. With many photographic illustrations. 92 pp. Dutch translation of Children of the Arctic by the snow baby and her mother. New York 1903. - Marie Ahnighito Peary was born in Northwest Greenland on September 12, 1893, to arctic explorer Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and his wife, Josephine Peary - Diebitsch. She became known worldwide as the 'Snow Baby'. - Rare.Added: Frontpage of De Illustratie. Weekblad voor katholieke huisgezinnen. nr. 46. 1902, with the news of the baby and three pictures. [Boeknr.: 36308 ]

€ 95,00

PEARY. Het Noordpoolkind. Marietje Peary's reisverhaal door haarzelf en haar moeder verteld. Bewerkt door B. de Graaff-van Capelle. Amsterdam, Scheltens & Giltay, (1909). 4to. Original decorated cloth. With many photographic illustrations. 92 pp. Dutch translation of Children of the Arctic by the snow baby and her mother. New York 1903. - Marie Ahnighito Peary was born in Northwest Greenland on September 12, 1893, to arctic explorer Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and his wife, Josephine Peary - Diebitsch. She became known worldwide as the 'Snow Baby'. - (First fly-leaf missing, some blank margins repaired with tape). - Rare. [Boeknr.: 36307 ]

€ 65,00

PFEIFFER, IDA. Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian north. Translated from the German. 2nd edition. London, Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1853.Original embossed brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With tinted wood-engraved title-page with vignette, frontispiece and 6 tinted wood-engraved plates. 353 pp. First published in 1846 Reise nach dem Scandinavischen Norden und der Insel Island. - On her second trip Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858) set out from Reykjavik for the Geiser and Mount Hecla, travelling alone and on a tight budget, and making her way on pony carts and living like the Icelanders. Having visited every part of Iceland of interest, she embarked for Copenhagen, and after travelling through parts of Norway and Sweden returned to Vienna after an absence of about six months (Howgego II, p. 475). Including An essay on Icelandic poetry, from the French of M. Bergmann; A translation of the Icelandic poem the Voluspa; and a brief sketch of Icelandic history. Ida Pfeiffer was �the first full-time woman traveller of all, and one of the very few who never felt the need to qualify her impulse: she travelled because she wanted to see the world, and saw no reason why she shouln�t� (Robinson, Wayward women, p.25).Abbey, Travel, 161; Theakstone, Vicorian & Edwardian women travellers, p.214. [Boeknr.: 37304 ]

€ 175,00

PICART, Bernard. Stranding van een walvisch van 70.voeten lang, tusschen Katwijk en Scheveningen, in de maandt van February, anno 1598. (Amsterdam, 1630). Engraving by Bernard Picart. Ca. 26 x 33 cm. From: Le Clerq. Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden.- Stranded whale on the Dutch shore near Katwijk, February 2, 1598. This engraving 'is particular important as a prototype for both whale print iconography and 17th century Dutch landscape. This particular depiction of a sperm whale was to be copied for two hundred years in European stranded whale and natural history prints' (Ingalls p.190). - Fine.Muller, Historieplaten, 1082a; Ingalls, Lothrop Collection, 360; Brewington, Kendall Whaling Museum, 532; See Sliggers & Wertheim, 'Op het strand gesmeten', p.52-56. [Boeknr.: 34074 ]

€ 450,00

POE, Edgar Allan. De muiterij op den walvischvaarder en de verdere schier ongeloofelijke avonturen van Arthur Gordon Pym. Vertaling van G. van Uildriks. Amsterdam, J.M. Meulenhoff, 1923. Pictorial cloth. 276 pp. The tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus. Various adventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before he is saved by the crew of the Jane Guy. Aboard this vessel, Pym and a sailor named Dirk Peters continue their adventures farther south. Docking on land, they encounter hostile black-skinned natives before escaping back to the ocean. [Boeknr.: 36228 ]

€ 25,00

POLE EXPEDITIONS. Fifteen articles published in De aarde en haar volken. Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon, 1865- 1915.In issues. With many photographic illustrations. Sir John Franklin en de Noordpoolreizen. 1865. - Schipbreuken in de Noordpoolzee. Lotgevallen van Barends en Von Krusenstern. 1866. - Reis naar de Noordpoolstreken. 1869. - Noordpool-reis van de Germania en de Hansa. 1875. - Nansen en zijn Poolreis door F.J. van Uildriks. 1897. - De Polaris. Zes maanden op het ijs. 1878. - De Zweedsche Pool-expeditie, onder leiding van A.E. Nordenskiöld. 1878. - Vijftien maanden in de Zuidpoolstreken. Naar het Fransch van Adrien de Gerlache. 1902. - De moordende Pool. Het reisverhaal van kapitein Scott. 1914. - and 4 others. [Boeknr.: 36261 ]

€ 95,00

POLE. - Het Poolnummer van De Groene. Special Christmas issue of De Groene Amsterdammer. Amsterdam, 1937. Folio. With illustrations and advertisements. Contrubutions by Stefan Zweig, Anton van Duinkerken, Jac.P. Thijsse, W. Verkade, M. van Blankenstein, E. van Everdingen, Joh. Huyts, Eduard Veterman, Eduard Verkade, a.o. [Boeknr.: 36219 ]

€ 25,00

PONTING, Herbert George. Het eeuwige ijs. De Zuidpool-expeditie van Kapitein Scott. Een verhaal van den laatsten tocht naar de Zuidpool door kapitein Scott en diens tragische einde, benevens een beschrijving van het natuurleven in het eeuwige ijs. Vertaald door M.P.C. de Gruyter. Amsterdam, J.M. Meulenhoff, (1924). 8vo. Original decorated cloth. With ca. 150 photographic illustrations by H.G. Ponting. 441 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in London in 1921: The great white South: being an account of experiences with Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition and the nature life of the Antarctic. - Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935) was the first professional photographer to accompany an Antarctic expedition. He is best known as the expedition photographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910-1913. - A fine copy.Rosove 251; Spence 925; Conrad p.183; Headland p.249; Stam, Books on ice, p.89-90. [Boeknr.: 3857 ]

€ 45,00

PONTING, Herbert George. Het eeuwige ijs. De Zuidpool-expeditie van Kapitein Scott. Een verhaal van den laatsten tocht naar de Zuidpool door kapitein Scott en diens tragische einde, benevens een beschrijving van het natuurleven in het eeuwige ijs. Vertaald door M.P.C. de Gruyter. 2e druk. Amsterdam, J.M. Meulenhoff, (1926). Sm.8vo. Original pictorial cloth. With ca. 150 photographic illustrations by H.G. Ponting. 456 pp. First Dutch edition published in 1924; first published in London in 1921: The great white South: being an account of experiences with Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition and the nature life of the Antarctic. - Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935) was the first professional photographer to accompany an Antarctic expedition. He is best known as the expedition photographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910-1913.Rosove 251; Spence 925; Conrad p.183; Headland p.249. [Boeknr.: 36271 ]

€ 25,00

PORTER, Robert Ker. Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808. 2nd edition. London, John Stockdale, 1813.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary half calf. With portrait, 12 sepia washed views (1 folding) and 28 aquatint costume plates (2 folding) by J.C. Stadler after the author. XI,(1),303; VIII,296 pp. Second edition; first published in London in 1809. - Robert Ker Porter (1775-1842), English traveller and artist, went to Russia as historical painter to the tsar for the first time in 1804. He there gained the affections of the Princess Mary, the daughter of Prince Theodor von Sherbatov. He travelled in Finland and to Sweden where in 1806 he received a knighthood from Gustavis IV. In 1808 he accompanied Sir John Moore to Spain, and in 1811-1812 returned to Russia to mary his Princess. He was knighted by the Prince Regent in 1813. In 1817 Porter travelled back to St. Petersburg' (Howgego II, p.487-488). 'A man of the most varied attainments, Porter was justly described as 'distinguished alike in arts, in diplomacy, in war, and in literature'. He was a splendid horseman, excellent in field sports, and possessed the art of ingratiating himself with people of every rank in life. Unlike some popular favourites, he was the idol of his own domestic circle' (DNB). His narrative includes observations and impressions of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Upsala, Stockholm, Russian and Scandinavian art collections and museums, the Russian army, law, religion, education, etc.The beautiful plates are made after drawings by the author. - Some offsetting of the plates as always, hole in blank margin of last leaf vol. I; half-title vol. II missing, otherwise a very fine copy.Abbey, Travel, 13; Tooley, Coloured plates, 382; Prideaux pp.225-227; Colas 2407; Lipperheide I, p.314;Hiler p.718; Catalogue Russica P1037; Nerhood 141. [Boeknr.: 28848 ]

€ 1750,00

PROCLAMATION BALTIC TRADE. De Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden .. doen te weeten .. hebben goedgevonden voor den tyd van tien jaaren onder den naam van het Borkumsche vuurgeld te doen heffen een vuur/ ton/ en bakengeld .. van die schepen alleen/ die uit deeze landen na de Oostzee en Archangel/ mitsgaders na de kleine Oost en Noorwegen vaaren 's Gravenhage, Isaac Scheltus, 1791.Broadside with woodcut coat of arms of the States General, lion with sword and 7 arrows, in an elaborately decorated cartouche with military attributes and woodcut initial. Beaconage for the Baltic trade.Not in Knuttel. [Boeknr.: 35385 ]

€ 125,00

PRONKER, Ton. F.J. Het barkschip 'Amicitia'. De geschiedenis van het eerste classe ijzeren barkschip 'Amicitia' 1885-1903. De zeemans-loopbaan van haar kapitein T. Pronker 1878-1903. De reederij P. van der Hoog 1877-1906. De dagboeken van de 3de stuurman H.W.A. Celosse 1893-1898. Het barkschip 'Martina Johanna' en kapt. J.J. van der Laag 1891-1905. Baarn, De Prom, 1999. Boards. With many illustrations. 702 pp. Including sailing voyages within Europe but also to Australia and Indonesia and the Arctic region. [Boeknr.: 35569 ]

€ 35,00

PROOT, Jo.M. Het raadsel der Zuidpool. Amsterdam, J.C. Dalmeijer, (1907). Original decorated cloth. With 2 maps and illustrations. 66 pp. Published by Kosmos, Vereeniging van Natuurvrienden. [Boeknr.: 36364 ]

€ 25,00

PUTMAN, David Binney. Als schooljongen naar de Poolstreken. Met een voorwoord van kaiptein Bob Bartlett. Geautoriseerde uitgave vertaald door F. Beyerink. Amsterdam, H. Meulenhoff, (1930). Original pictorial cloth. With photographic plates and drawings by Kakutia ('Eskimo uit Karnah aan de Whale Sound'). 174 pp. Childrens book about a boy who goes to Greenland. - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 36297 ]

€ 35,00

RAVEN, Dirck Albertsz. Journael ofte beschrijvinge van de reyse gedaen .. na Spitsbergen, inden jare 1639, ten dienste van de E.Heeren Bewinthebbers vande Groenlantse Compagnie tot Hoorn. (Amsterdam, C.G.A. Corvey, Papiergroothandel,1951). Wrappers. 18 pp. Model voor den uitgever. - First published in Utrecht in 1647. - On May 24, 1639, Dirck Albertsz was shipwrecked near Spitsbergen as commander of the ship Spitsbergen. He barely survived, after his rescue by commander Gale Hamkes from Harlingen with his ship De Oranjeboom, only 20 of the 86 crew members were left. [Boeknr.: 15728 ]

€ 30,00

RICHARDS, Rhys. Into the South Seas: the southern whale fishery comes of age on the Brazil banks 1765 to 1812. A review of the whaling activities of American, British, French, Spanish and Portuguese whalemen off Brazill and Patagonia before 1812. Paramata, Paramata Press, 1993. Wrappers. With illustrations. (8),128 pp. [Boeknr.: 35579 ]

€ 45,00

RIETSTAP, (Johannes Baptista). Amerika. De jongste zee- en landreizen in dat werelddeel aan het volk verhaald. Leiden, van den Heuvel & van Santen, (ca. 1880).Original decorated cloth. With chromo-lithographed plate of Mexico and New York by Emrik & Binger. (4),312,(3) pp. Contains E.K. Kane to the North Pole, Voyages to the United States, Canada, Middle and South America.Cf. Landwehr, Coloured plates., 474. [Boeknr.: 13038 ]

€ 75,00

ROEPER, V.D. & G.J.D. WILDEMAN. Ontdekkingsreizen van Nederlanders (1590-1650). Utrecht, Kosmos, (1993). Wrappers. With illustrations. 160 pp. [Boeknr.: 9390 ]

€ 18,00

ROMEIN, Picard. Scheeps-tocht, in den jaare 1596, naar Nova Zembla ondernomen. (Amsterdam., 1730). Engraving by Picard Romein. Ca. 26 x 33,5 cm. From Le Clerq. Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden. - Fine engraving illustrating an encounter with a walrus on Willem Barentsz 's third voyage to the Arctic in 1596.Muller, Historieplaten, 1054 B; Atlas van Stolk 980; Ingalls, Lothrop Collection, 3; Brewington, Kendall Whaling Museum, 102. [Boeknr.: 16433 ]

€ 195,00

ROSS, John. De reizen en lotgevallen van Kapitein John Ross op zijne ontdekkings togten naar de Noordpoolse gewesten. Voor jonge lieden. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald. Amsterdam, Ten Brink & de Vries, 1837.Sm.8vo. Original half cloth, with paper title-label to spine. With lithographed title-page and frontispiece, folding map, and 5 lithographed plates after J. Steyn (foxed). VIII,247 pp. With manuscript schoolprize tipped onto first free endpaper. - A rare Dutch children's version of Ross' famous second voyage in search of a North-West passage with the Victory. Translated from the German language, adapting Ross' diary and William Light's report of the same voyage into one narrative and incorporating various other accounts of polar voyages. Sabin 73388 (German ed.). [Boeknr.: 28542 ]

€ 275,00

ROSS, John. Reizen naar Ysland en de Baffinsbaai, de laatste gedaan ter ontdekking van een doorvaart ten noord-westen van Groenland in den jare 1818. Naar de Hoogduitsche uitgave van W. Harnisch. 's Gravenhage, W.K. Mandemaker, 1821.19th century cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With folding map and 2 engraved plates by D. Veelwaard. XII,289 pp. First Dutch edition after the German translation of the English edition A voyage of discovery made .. in his majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay, and inquiring into the probability of a north-west passage. London, 1819; warranted by the publisher on half-title in manuscript. - A famous, even notorious, voyage, led by Captain John Ross. As his lieutenants, Ross had aboard his nephew James Clark Ross, William Parry, and Edwin Sabone, all of future fame as explorers. Ross attempted to proceed westward through Lancaster Sound, but presumably deceived by a mirage, he described the passage as barred by a range of mountains, which he named the Croker Mountains, despite the disbelief of his colleagues (Hill 1488). The controversy had discredited Ross in the eyes of the Admiralty and for the next ten years he received no further commissions for exploratory voyages (Howgego II, R28). Ross began a new era in Arctic research (Stam, Books on ice, p.21). - (Age-browned). - Very rare.Cat. NHSM I, p.304; not in Tiele; Sabin 73380; Arctic Bibl. 14873. [Boeknr.: 36194 ]

€ 575,00

ROSS, John. Verhaal van eenen tweeden zeetogt, en van verscheidene landreizen in de Noordpool-gewesten. Ondernomen tot opsporing eener noordwestelijke doorvaart. Uit het Engelsch vertaald door J. Olivier. Zutphen, W.J. Thieme, 1836-1837.3 volumes. Modern half cloth. With folding map. XXXX,296; 327; 284 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in London in 1835 Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage. - Sir John Ross (1777-1856) set out in 1826 with the small paddle-steamer the Victory, after the failure of his voyage in 1821. He spent the years 1829-1833 in the far northwest. He successfully waethered repeated Arctic winters and systematically accumulated a wealth of scientific data and reached the North Magnetic Pole in 1831.The Victory was crushed in the ice and Ross and his men were rescued by a whaler, the Isabella, in August 1833 at Lancaster Sound, after a terrible trek South. The introduction contains a chronological summary of previous explorations in search of a Northwest Passage. - (Some foxing; written number on title-pages). - A rare fundamental Arctic narrative.Not in Tiele or Cat. NHSM; Sabin 73382 (English ed.); Arctic Bibl. 14866; Stam, Books on ice, p.22; Hill 1490; Howgego II, R29. [Boeknr.: 36193 ]

€ 875,00

RUIJS, Aerjen Jansz. De walvisvaartjournalen van Aerjen Jansz. Ruijs uit de Zijpe, 1783 en 1784. Ingeleid en bezorgd door Gerry Baars-Visser, Hans Besseling, Netty Bleichrodt-Vegter, Jaap R. Bruijn, Harry de Raad, Piet Schilte en Ineke Vonk-Uitgeest. Hilversum, Verloren, 2022. Wrappers. With coloured illustrations. 159 pp. Two 18th century journals of a humble sailor on whaling trips to Greenland and Spitsbergen. [Boeknr.: 36894 ]

€ 20,00

RUSSIA. ZEE-TRACTAAT, tusschen haar Rusch keyzerlyke majesteit en zyne koninglyke majesteit van Denemarken en Noorwegen, tot standhouding der vryheid van de neutrale koopvaardy-scheepvaart, geslooten tot Coppenhagen .. 1780. En waarin zyn koningl. majesteit van Zweeden, nevens .. de heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden, deel genomen hebben en toegetreeden zyn, respectivelyk geteekend te St. Petersburg .. 1781. Amsterdam, H.W. & C. Dronsberg, (1781).Folio. 4 pp. Sea-treaty between Russia, Denmark and Norway, concluded in Kopenhagen in 1780. Sweden and the Netherlands became a party to the treaty in St. Petersburg. - (Some staining). - Rare.Knuttel 19490. [Boeknr.: 33546 ]

€ 175,00

SALMON, Thomas. Tegenwoordige staat van Rusland, Zweden, Denemarken en Noorwegen: als mede van de landen onder de Noord Pool gelegen, en van de Groenlandsche visschery. Nu vertaald en merkelyk vermeerderd door Matthias van Goch. Amsterdam, Isaac Tirion, 1735.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved plates (1 folding), 2 engraved plates depicting whales, 3 engraved portraits and 5 folding maps. (8),317-976,(8) pp. Original issued as Modern history: or present state of all nations. London 1725-1739. Translated into Dutch:Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren. - This volume VII contains a description of Russia, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, including chapters on English and Dutch whaling round Greenland and the Davis Strait. With fine plan of St. Petersburg and maps of Russia, the Arctic and others.Tiele 1033; Muller, Bibl. Neerlando-Russe, 311. [Boeknr.: 21656 ]

€ 475,00

SARGENT, Epes & William H. CUNNINGTON. Perils and escapes among icebergs. The wonders of the Arctic world: a history of all the researches and discoveries in the frozen regions of the North, from the earliest times. .. Together with a complete and reliable history of the Polar expeditions under the late Captain C.F. Hall. St. Louis, Valley Publishing Company, 1875.Original decorated cloth gilt. With many woodengraved plates. 651 pp. First published in 1873; with bookplate of Chas.N. Stow. - History of polar exploration particularly the North American Arctic and the search for the Northwest Passage.Arctic Bibliography 15346. [Boeknr.: 36754 ]

€ 75,00

SARYCHEV, Gavriill Andreevich. Account of a voyage of discovery to the north-east of Siberia, the frozen ocean, and the north-east sea. Translated from the Russian. London, Richard Phillips, 1806 - 1807.2 volumes in 1. Later half calf. With 2 hand-coloured engraved costume plates and 3 folding engraved views. 70; 80 pp. First English edition; an abridged translation of the first Russian edition of 1802 Puteshestvie flota kapitana Sarycheva po severovostochnoi? chasti Sibiri. - Sarychev, a surveyer, served as deputy of Captain Joseph Billings, the English leader of this Russian expedition to explore the Arctic and North Pacific Oceans. Catherine II sent out this official expedition, which lasted from 1785 to 1793, and during which Alaska and the Aleutians, especially Unalaska, were first carefully charted (Hill 1527). One of the fundamental and early books on the Aleutian Islands (Lada-Mocarski 57). - Sarychev's journal gives an account of the first major exploring expedition sent out by the Russians to the Frozen Sea and the North Pacific after Bering's second expedition of 1741. (Age-browned).Sabin 77126; not in Arctic Bibliography. [Boeknr.: 36654 ]

€ 2250,00

SCHAGEN, Adriaen. Reijse gedaen bij Adriaen Schagen aen de croonen van Sweden ende Polen inden jaere 1656. Uitgegeven door C.E. Warnsinck-Delprat. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1968. Cloth. With portrait, map and 7 plates. 197 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging LXIX. - Adriaen Schagen visited Sweden and Poland in 1656. On his voyage back with the Dutch fleet of Dantzig he was in the company of Jacob van Wassenaar-Obdam, Michiel de Ruyter and Witte de With. [Boeknr.: 3734 ]

€ 25,00

SCHELFHOUT, Charles Emmanuel. De Gerlache. Drie generaties van Poolverkenners. Voorwoord door Alfred van der Essen. Sint-Martens-Latem, De Dijle, 1996. Folio. Cloth, with pictorial dust-jacket. With numerous photographic illustrations (some in colours). 448 pp. History of three geneations de Gerlache de Gomery (1897-1997) who executed scientific research in the polar regions. [Boeknr.: 36301 ]

€ 150,00

SCHOKKENBROEK, Joost C.A. Harpoeniers en robbenjagers. Nederlandse walvisvaart en zeehondenjacht in de 19de eeuw. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2008. Wrappers. With coloured plates. 222 pp. Dutch whaling in the Arctic 1815-1885 and Antarctic 1827-1849. [Boeknr.: 30825 ]

€ 25,00

SCHOKKENBROEK, Joost C.A. Trying-out. An anatomy of Dutch whaling and sealing in the nineteenth century, 1815-1885. Amsterdam, Aksant, 2008. Pictorial boards. With 14 illustrations. 366 pp. This study describes and analyses a wide array of initiatives leading to the hunt, by Dutch whalemen, of whales and seals in Arctic waters, the temperate zones of the South Pacific and the waters of the Dutch East Indies during the major part of the nineteenth century (1815-1885) - an era neglected so far. A pioneering book focused on the men involved in the two maritime industries, be it on shore or aboard the whaleship. [Boeknr.: 33502 ]

€ 25,00

SCOTT, Robert Falcon. Scott's last expedition. Volume I. Being the journals of Captain R.F. Scott. Volume II. Being the reports of the journeys & the scientific work undertaken by E.A. Wilson and the surviving members of the expedition. Arranged by L. Huxley. With a preface by Cl.R. Markham. London, Smith, Elder & Co, 1913.2 volumes. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, uncut. With ca. 300 partly folding maps and photographic plates (18 in colours) by Herbert G. Ponting. XXVI,633; XIV,534 pp. First edition; with the bookplate of Charles Hadfield. - The official account of Scott's second and last polar expedition. This British Antarctic Expedition (1910-13) almost failed on her way south, when the Terra Nova was caught in a terrific storm. Scott finally reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, 33 days after Amundsen's expedition. Scott and the four men with him, Evans, Oates, Bowers, and Wilson, perished on the return trip in 1913. 'Scott kept a diary of the expedition up until his death on or about 29 March 1912. This was published in two volumes in November 1913 as Scott's last expedition, along with supplementary material furnished by other members of the expedition. It ran to innumerable later editions' (Howgego S13).'It is a harrowing and courageous story, which earned its place in the canons of polar literature' (Stam. Books on ice, p.88). Herbert Ponting, the photographer, made the first moving picture documentary of this Antarctic expedition. 'This is undoubtedly the most known of all Antarctic expeditions and publications' (Taurus Collection 77). - A nice set.Spence 1059; Headland 1440; Conrad p.188. [Boeknr.: 2090 ]

€ 450,00

SHACKLETON, Ernest Henry. The heart of the Antarctic being the story of the British Antarctic expedition 1907-1909. With an introduction by H.R. Mill, an account of the first journey to the South magnetic Pole by T.W. Edgeworth David. London, William Heinemann, 1909.2 volumes. Original blue cloth, front boards lettered and illustrated in silver, rebacked with the original spines laid down (spines dicoloured), top edges gilt. With 2 folding panoramas on large folding sheet and 3 folding maps in pocket, 12 coloured plates and numerous photographic plates and illustrations. XLVIII,371; XV,419 pp. First edition. - The official account of Shackleton's first Antarctic expedition. Shackleton (1874-1922) organized the British Imperial Antarctic Expedition of 1907-1909 to conquer the South Pole with the small whaler Nimrod. First of all he attempted to anchor in Whale Bay and go ashore, but he was prevented by the insurmountable masses of ice. His attemp to call at King Edward II Land was also thwarted. Eventually he managed to establish a camp on Ross Island. There a party accomplished the first ascent of the volcanic Mount Erebus and surveyed its various craters. Another proceeded in the direction of the South Magnetic Pole, which it reached on 16 January, 1909. In the meantime, Shackleton and his companions fought their way through a blizzard that brought them frustatingly to a halt just 180 kilometres from the pole and set a record for the farthest south,almost four years before Amundsen and Scott achieved the Pole itself.Spence 1097; Conrad p.137-140; Headland 1383; Stam, Books on ice, p.98; Howgego III, p.555-557. [Boeknr.: 11384 ]

€ 750,00

SHACKLETON, Lady & Hugh Robert MILL. Shackletons's leven en reizen. Vertaald door A. Moresco. Amsterdam, Em Querido, 1923. Original decorated cloth (spine sl. faded). With 4 maps and 35 photographic plates. 356 pp. First published in London in 1923 The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton, without the author's name of Lady Shackleton (Emily Mary Dorman (1868-1936). [Boeknr.: 7128 ]

€ 45,00

SIRELIUS, Uuno Taavi. Über die Sperrfischerei bei den finnisch-ugrischen Völkern. Eine vergleichende ethnographische Untersuchung. Helsingfors, 1906. 4to. Original printed wrappers (sl. dam.), uncut. With 607 illustrations. (6),486 pp. - (Société Finno-Ougrienne). [Boeknr.: 24969 ]

€ 95,00

SLIGGERS, B.C. & A.A. WERTHEIM. (Red.). 'Op het strand gesmeten'. Vijf eeuwen potvisstrandingen aan de Nederlandse kust. (Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 1992). 4to. Wrappers. With many illustrations. 120 pp. Survey of five centuries of stranded whales on the Dutch shore. [Boeknr.: 10255 ]

€ 18,00

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