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WHALING. - Reverse painting on glass of Jonah and the whale. With houses and a ship in the background. Late 18th century. Old frame. Ca. 28 x 37,5 cm. Reverse painting on glass is an art form consisting of applying paint to a piece of glass and then viewing the image by turning the glass over and looking through the glass at the image.The prophet Jonah or Jonas is especially legendary as the man who survived three days in the belly of a whale. - Some loss of paint but still an attractive picture. [Boeknr.: 36431 ]

€ 375,00

WHYMPER, Fréderick. Voyages et aventures dans l'Alaska (ancienne Amérique Russe). Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglais avec l'autorisation de l'auteur par Émile Jonveaux. Paris, Hachette et Cie., 1871.Contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt, top edge gilt. With folding map and 37 wood-engravings. II,412 pp. First French edition; first published in London in 1868: Travel and adventure in the territory of Alaska, formerly Russian America. - The author, a member of the Western Union Telegraph Co. Expedition, visited Plover Bay (Chukotka) 1865, and Petropavlovsk 1866, traveled in Kamchatka and on the west coast of Okhotsk Sea; later made journeys up and down the Yokon River from the Norton Sound region. He gives here accounts of his journeys (Arctic Bibl. 19424 English ed.). Whymper's account, and his artwork, constitute one of the most significant contributions to Alaska description of this period' (Haycox, Alaska Biblio. p. 254) Also containing the author�s reminiscences of his travels in British Columbia in the 1860�s, and his trip to the interior of Vancouver Island in 1864 - Some foxing otherwise fine.Howgego IV, p.1004. [Boeknr.: 25554 ]

€ 175,00

WILKES, Charles. Narrative of the United States exploring expedition, during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Philadelphia, Lea and Blanchard, 1845.5 volumes. Contemporary speckled calf, spines with raised bands, gilt ruled and green morocco title labels. With 11 folding maps (10 folding), 64 steel-engraved plates and ca. 300 wood-engravings in the text. Official trade edition, this edition and all later editions later than 1845 appeared without the atlas (Haskell p.40); the official first edition, of which only 100 copies were printed, issued also in 1845. - The first major American expedition, circumnavigated the globe under the command of Charles Wilkes between the summer of 1838 and the summer of 1842. He visited and explored the coast of South America, over 200 Pacific islands, Australia and New Zealand (1839-40), the Hawaiian Islands (1840-41), the northwest coast of America and California (1841) and the South Pacific again in 1841. In 1842 he visited South Africa. Wilkes did find icecovered land, now called Wilkes Land, west of Adélie Land. He also surveyed more than two thousand kilometres of Antarctic coastline, confirming the existence of a vast polar continent. The expedition was made up of a number of notable American scientists, and their botanical, natural history and geological findings are included. 'Wilkes was tried in a court-martial for numerous varieties of scandalous conduct, neglect of duty, cruelty, oppression and illegal punishment of seamen' (Conrad p.50). 'Charles Wilkes, no poster-boy of American polar exploration, was a flogging tyrant, paranoid and peevish, insecure and insensitive. Yet as 'Commander' of the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-42, Wilkes achieved a great deal of lasting significance, not only in his relatively brief visit to Antarctica but throughout the four-year voyage, especially in the South Pacific Islands' (Stam, Books on ice, p.80). This expedition was probably the last voyage of discovery around the world completed entirely by sailing ships.- A nice set of Wilkes�s great United States Exploring Expedition. Haskell 3, Cf. Sabin 103994; Hill 1866; Ferguson 5584; NZNB 6072; Mendelssohn II, p.610; O'Reilly/Reitman 995; Forbes 1575. [Boeknr.: 11901 ]

€ 2450,00

WILKINS, Hubert. Onder het ijs naar de Noordpool (de Wilkins-Ellsworth duikboot expeditie). Geautoriseerde vertaling van R.H.H. Nahuys. Utrecht, A.W. Bruna & Zoons, (1932). Original decorated wrappers, uncut. With map and photographic plates. XVI,328 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in New York in 1931 Under the North Pole; the Wilkins-Ellsworth submarine expedition. - An expedition under Wilkins to explore the Arctic Basin north of West Spitsbergen in the submarine Nautilus. - A fine copy.Arctic Bibl. 19493. [Boeknr.: 36273 ]

€ 65,00

WILKINSON, Alec. De ijsballon. Een dramatische ontdekkingsreis naar de Noordpool. Vertaald door Ruud van de Plassche. Amsterdam, Ambo, 2012. Wrappers. With photographic illustrations. 274 pp. Dutch translation of The ice balloon. S.A. Andrée and the heroic age of Arctic exploration. New York, 2012. [Boeknr.: 36305 ]

€ 18,00

WILLEM BARENTS. 1880. Verslagen omtrent den derden tocht van de Willem Barents naar de IJsze, in den zomer van 1880, uitgebracht aan het Comité van Uitvoering. Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1881.Original printed wrappers. With folding coloured lithographed map by A. Braakensiek and 7 plates (1 folding) after Louis Apol. 79,(1) pp. Privately printed. - Official account of the third Dutch expedition to the Arctic with the schooner Willem Barents in the Barents and Kara seas in 1881. The schooner continued to make annual polar cruises until 1884Cat. NHSM I, p.310. [Boeknr.: 27774 ]

€ 95,00

WILLEM BARENTS. 1881. Verslagen omtrent den vierden tocht van de Willem Barents naar de IJszee in den zomer van 1881, uitgebracht aan het Comité van Uitvoering. Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1882.Cloth, original printed wrappers preserved. With 2 maps (including large folding coloured lithographed map by A. Braakensiek) and 4 plates after Grant. 5,146 pp. (pp.137-140 in photocopy) Privately printed. - Official account of the fourth Dutch expedition to the Arctic with the schooner Willem Barents in the Barents and Kara seas in 1881. The schooner continued to make annual polar cruises until 1884Cat. NHSM I, p.310. [Boeknr.: 33290 ]

€ 75,00

WILLEM BARENTS. 1883. Verslag van den zesden tocht van de Willem Barents naar de noordelijke IJszee in den zomer van 1883, uitgebracht aan het bestuur der Vereeniging Willem Barents. Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1884.Original printed wrappers (spine sl. dam.). With 2 maps (including a large folding coloured lithographed map by A. Braakensiek) and 4 plates after W.J.M. Grant and J.M.P. Kluit. 93,(2) pp. Privately printed. - Official account of the sixth Dutch expedition to the Arctic with the schooner Willem Barents in the Barents and Kara seas in 1883. The schooner continued to make annual polar cruises until 1884Cat. NHSM I, p.310. [Boeknr.: 36319 ]

€ 95,00

WILLEM BARENTS. 1884. Verslag van den zevenden tocht van de Willem Barents naar de noordelijke IJszee in den zomer van 1884, uitgebracht aan het bestuur der Vereeniging Willem Barents. Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1885.Original printed wrappers. With large folding coloured lithographed map by A. Braakensiek and 2 plates after J.M.P. Kluit (1 with marginal staining). 65 pp. Privately printed. - Official account of the seventh Dutch expedition to the Arctic with the schooner Willem Barents in the Barents and Kara seas in 1884. The last of the annual polar cruises by the Dutch.Cat. NHSM I, p.310. [Boeknr.: 36320 ]

€ 95,00

WILLEM BARENTS. Verslagen omtrent den eersten - zevenden tocht van de Willem Barents naar de Noordelijke IJszee in de jaren 1878-84. Uitgebracht aan het Comité van Uitvoering / Bestuur der Vereeniging Willem Barents. Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1880-85.7 volumes in 2. Contemporary cloth. With 3 profils (2 folding), 4 chromo-lithographed plates, 9 coloured maps (8 folding) and 17 full-page woodengraved plates. Privately printed. - Official accounts of the Dutch expeditions to the Arctic with the schooner Willem Barents in the Barents and Kara seas, based on diaries. Following the founding of the Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (Dutch Geographical Society) in 1873 there was a brief revival of Dutch interest and participation in the Arctic. The schooner Willem Barents, specially built for the purpose, made annual voyages into the European Arctic from 1878 to 1884, placing memorial stones at sites where the Dutch had operated in earlier centuries and collecting scientific data. During the International Polar Year, 1882-83 the Dutch expedition was caught in pack ice and its ship Varna was lost. Thereafter Dutch interest in the Arctic waned, and Willem Barents was sold in 1886. - Rare complete set describing the Dutch activities in the Arctic in the late 19th century. Cat. NHSM I, p.310. [Boeknr.: 6700 ]

€ 550,00

WILLEM BARENTSZ. Special number Spiegel Historiael Jrg. 31, no.10: Gevangen in het ijs. Amsterdam, 1997. Pictorial wrappers. With illustrations. (69) pp. Contributions by Louwrens Hacquebord, Diederick Wildeman, Jerzy Gawronski, Nop Maas, Peter Sigmond, a.o. Added Poster and cut-out of the Behouden Huys and another issue of Spiegel Historiael with articles by Hans Bonke & Pieter Floore. Het Behouden Huys. Hollandse boerenschuur op Nova Zembla and W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns. Het panorama Nova Zembla van Louis Apol.. [Boeknr.: 36257 ]

€ 18,00

WILLIAMSON, James A. The voyages of the Cabots and the English discovery of North America under Henry VII and Henry VIII.London, 1929. Reprint. Amsterdam, Nico Israel, 1971. 4to. Imitation leather. With 13 maps and plates. XIII,290 pp. Argonaut Press 7. - The voyages of John Cabot in 1497 and 1498 and the North West voyage of Sebastian Cabot. [Boeknr.: 34524 ]

€ 45,00

WILSON, Edward. Diary of the 'Terra Nova' Expedition to the Antarctic 1910-1912. An account of Scott's last expedition edited from the original manuscripts in the Scott Polar Research Institute and the British Museum by H.G. R. King. Forword by Charles Wright. London, Blandford Press, 1972. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 10 maps and many illustrations and plates, several in colours, including watercolour illustrations by the author, all drawn from the collection of the Scott Polar Research Institute, XXIII, 279 pp. First edition. - An account of Scott's last expedition by his chief scientific officer, edited from the original manuscript. [Boeknr.: 36380 ]

€ 75,00

ZEEBERG, Jaap Jan & Pieter FLOORE. (Red.). Nova Zembla. Recente expedities in het Noordpoolgebied. Met bijdragen van Pieter Floore, Rene Gerritsen, Mark Glotzbach, Jan Goos, Frans Heeres, Taco Slagter, Jan Jaap Zeeberg. Rijswijk, Elmar, 1996. Wrappers. With many photographic illustrations. XVI,296 pp. [Boeknr.: 22165 ]

€ 30,00

ZEEBERG, Jaap Jan. Into the Ice Sea. Barents' wintering on Novaya Zemlya - a renaissance voyage of discovery. With contributions by Pieter Floore. Amsterdam, Rozenberg, (2005). Wrappers. With illustrations. 317 pp. [Boeknr.: 33029 ]

€ 25,00

ZEEBERG, Jaap Jan. Terugkeer naar Nova Zembla. De laatste en tragische reis van Willem Barents. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2007. Cloth. With many illustrations (some in colours). 254 pp. The dramatic last voyage of Willem Barentsz to Novaya Zemlya. [Boeknr.: 29707 ]

€ 18,00

ZORGDRAGER, Cornelis Gijsbertsz. Bloeijende opkomst der aloude en hedendaagsche Groenlandsche visschery .. Met byvoeging van de walvischvangst .. door Abraham Moubach. Nevens een korte beschryving van de Terreneufsche bakkeljaau-visschery. 2e druk. Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, 1728.4to. Contemporary vellum. With title-page printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece (P. van Thol & R.C. Alberts, 1727), 6 folding maps and 11 engraved plates (1 folding after A. Salm by Van der Hem). (36),392,(13),(2) pp. Second and best edition; the first edition was published in Amsterdam in 1720. - This classic work on the Greenland whale fishery is one of the most thorough and authoritative descriptions of the early 18th century. It is the most important and extensive Dutch work on whaling, including ample descriptions of the early discoveries and exploration in the northern regions, Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Nova Zembla, Jan Mayen and Strait Davis. Giving along with extensive natural history, geography, history, and economics, detailed lists of ships' outfits, lists of shipowners and captains, an extensive vocabulary, and copious other details. At the end an account of New-Foundland cod-fishing. - (p.101 with marginal tear without loss of text). - A fine copy of the most important and extensive Dutch work on whaling.Tiele 1241; Cat. NHSM II, p.899; Allen 177; Jenkins p.162; Sabin 106376. [Boeknr.: 1552 ]

€ 3950,00

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