Search Results: Titles starting with N from Polar Books

Literary Guild, 1930. Book Club Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Literary Guild Edition: xi, 281 pages, illustrated with b/w drawings and striking plates from wood blocks by the author. Cream covers with green titling. Shelfware, spine grubby, contents clean. An account of the author's voyage to Greenland in 1929 with Arthur S. Allen, Jr., and another American in the boat Direction, and his sojourn for several months in the Godthaab region after the wreck of the vessel, with descriptions of West Greenlanders, their country, behaviour. Includes songs (verses) by Eskimos. Complete with all Rockwell Kent engravings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2384. .

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1937. . Good. 1st Edition; xiii, 176pp, illustrated, 7 b/w illustrations. Green cloth covers with black titling to spine in illustrated dustjacket. Shelfware, spotting to page edges, occaisional spotting in text. dustjacket tatty with pieces missing. Good/Dustjacket Poor. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2394. .

Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1930. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Presumed 1st Edition: 189pp, illutstrated, 7 illustrations including a map of Nansen's voyages. Blue cloth covers with white titling. Shelfware, titling faded, age toning to pages. School library bookplate to front pastedown, library number to spine and fep, no other markings. Contents clean. Good Presumed 1st Edition. Ex Libris with usual stamps and markings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2975. .

Longmans Green & Co. Ltd, 1957. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 1st Edition: x, 269pp, illustrated, maps, 18 b/w plates. Blue cloth with gilt titling to spine in pictorial unclipped dustjacket. "In this fine biography of Nansen his daughter does not set out to give a detailed appraisal of his life's work, but rather to present an intimate family portrait of the man seen against the background of his many and varied activities. As an Arctic explorer, scientist, politician, and humanitarian nansen was world-famous, and his achievements in these fields are now part of history. In this book, for the first time, we have a picture of the man behind the public figure....." Previous owners signature dated 1957 on fep, dustjacket slightly grubby, slight browning to eps, very slight edgewear, contents clean. Very Good/Dustjacket Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available… Read More

Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1933. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 210pages, [8pp publishers catalogue]. Illustrated, 4 b/w photographs, map, front end paper map. Green cloth covers with gilt flag to front cover and titling to spine. Frontispiece loose, spotting to page edges, shelfware, age toning to pages Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Biography & Autobiography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2906. .

Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1933. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 2nd, (School) Edition: 210pages. Illustrated, frontispiece 2 maps (1 front end paper. Blue cloth covers with black titling. Contents clean. Shelfware. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2908. .

William Heinemann, 1948. . Good. 1948 re-issue of Nansen 1937: xiii, 146pp, illustrated, 9 b/w illustrations. Blue cloth covers with silver titling to spine and black and silver decoration to front cover, no dustjacket, feps age toned, occasional light foxing, mainly to page edges. Good Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2395. .

Archibald Constable & Newnes, London, 1897. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Soft cover periodical set: No date but circa 1890s. Pale blue/grey illustrated covers, each part illustrated with black and white, colour plates ands sketches. Interesting periodical advertisements. Very scarce in the original 20 parts, published fortnightly in parts. Being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship Fram, 1893-96, and of a fifteen months sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram. Issued in 20 parts. Complete with the coloured plate presented with Part 1. Covers and page edges tatty, grubby, nibbled with odd piece missing. Overall in good condition considering the age and fact it was sold as a "periodical" in various parts. PLEASE NOTE: This book will incur extra postage and insurance charges. Please contact us for a quote. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series.… Read More

Wiley and Putman issue, 1845. Cloth. Very Good. Wiley and Putman issue; Printed by C. Sherman, Philadelphia, U.S.A., From the plates of the 1st issue. Rosove 353.B4. Quarto 4to (11" tall), Vol I, lx, 434pp, [26pp, publishers' advertisements] 8 engravings, including frontipiece, 15 vignettes & 68 woodcuts in text, 1 double-page copper engraved map. Dark brown cloth, decorated in blind with gilt titling on spine and gilt eagle on front cover. Jan09. The Wilkes expedition was the first United States scientific expedition by sea, working mainly in the Pacific Ocean. Wilkes sailed along the Antarctic continent and throughout the islands of the South Pacific, visited the Hawaiian Islands in 1840, and explored the Northwest Coast of America in 1841. The expedition was made up of a number of notable American scientists, and their botanical, natural history and geological findings are included. Charles Wilkes (1798-1877) "entered the United States Navy as a midshipman in 1818, and… Read More

Oliver & Boyd and Simpkin & Marshall, London, 1830. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; (4), vi, [2], 424 pages, illustrated, engravings and line drawings in text, all as called for on contents page, 1 folding map. Dark brown cloth binding with paper label on spine. Pages uncut, no front end papers, covers worn and faded, title illegible, some foxing and spotting, mainly to plates, tissue paper guards, map, odd neat pencil annotation in margin, some tissue paper guards loose or missing. One of the most popular general accounts of polar exploration, reprinted many times and translated into several languages. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Whales; 19th century; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1321. .

Oliver & Boyd and Simpkin & Marshall, London, 1835. Fourth Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 4th Edition revised and enlarged; 484 pages, 16 pages publishers advertisements. Illustrated, 14 engravings. MISSING FOLDING MAP. Dark brown cloth binding with paper label on spine. Hinges splitting, half title paged detached, MAP MISSING, covers worn, spine label tatty, pages browning, some foxing, staining. Contemporary dedication on prelim (dated 1906). One of the most popular general accounts of polar exploration, reprinted many times and translated into several languages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; 19th century; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1323. .

A.W. Webster, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover (rebound in cloth). Good/No Dust Jacket. NARRATIVE OF A SECOND VOYAGE IN SEARCH OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. Including the Reports of Commander, now Captain James Clark Ross and The Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole. 1st Edition. xxxiii, (1), 740pp, iilustrated with 31 plates, including 6 maps and charts, some outlined in colour and 2 folding, 24 views, some hand coloured. Rebound in blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. After the embarrassment of Ross's first voyage in which he claimed to see the mountains in Lancaster Sound, it took him a decade to source private backing (he had lost the confidence of the British Admiralty) for a second trip. Ross travelled through Lancaster Sound into Prince Regent inlet and onto Boothia Peninsula, while on the way finding remnants of Parry's ship "Fury" which had been wecked on North Somerset Island. For… Read More

A.W. Webster, London, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good/No Dust Jacket. NARRATIVE OF A SECOND VOYAGE IN SEARCH OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. Including the Reports of Commander, now Captain James Clark Ross and The Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole. 1st Edition. xxxiii, (1), 740pp, illustrated with 31 plates, including 6 maps and charts, some outlined in colour and 2 folding, 24 views, some hand coloured. Appendix: xii, 120pp, cxliv, ciii. Half cream leather with dark brown leather boards, spine ruled with black leather spine labels, titled in gilt. After the embarrassment of Ross's first voyage in which he claimed to see the mountains in Lancaster Sound, it took him a decade to source private backing (he had lost the confidence of the British Admiralty) for a second trip. Ross travelled through Lancaster Sound into Prince Regent inlet and onto Boothia Peninsula, while on the way… Read More

Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, London, 1831. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 1st Octavo 8vo Edition; Two volumes, Vol I [iv]-xxvi, [1, directions to the binder], 472pp; Vol II iv, 452pp. Three engraved maps, two of which are folding, and twenty-three engraved plates, many not in place as in directions to binder but all complete, also two copies of one of the plates. Contemporary rebound, cloth, half calf, Each volume with red and black spine labels. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. All edges marbled. Beechey’s expedition on board the H.M.S. Blossom formed part of a double-pronged assault on the western approaches to the Arctic. Sent by way of Bering’s Strait to explore the northern coast eastward, Beechey was to eventually link up with Franklin’s second expedition, working westward from the Mackenzie River. The two parties came within several hundred miles of each other, one of Beechey’s vessels managing to penetrate as far as Cape Barrow, while Franklin turned back… Read More

Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, London, 1831. Early Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Dust Jacket. The 1st Admiralty Edition in quarto; Two volumes, Vol I, fep, folding map, title page, vii-xxi, [1, directions to the binder], 392pp; illustrated, 14 plates, 3 charts, (2 folding). MISSING 5 PLATES AND PAGES v-vi, 329-336), Up to page viii, detached as is pages 387 to 392. Vol II (2), errata slip, vi-vii, directions to binder pages 393-742 (2 publishers advertisements), illustrated 7 plates. (MISSING 1 plate). Half bound marbled boards. Beechey’s expedition on board the H.M.S. Blossom formed part of a double-pronged assault on the western approaches to the Arctic. Sent by way of Bering’s Strait to explore the northern coast eastward, Beechey was to eventually link up with Franklin’s second expedition, working westward from the Mackenzie River. The two parties came within several hundred miles of each other, one of Beechey’s vessels managing to penetrate as far as Cape Barrow, while… Read More

Oliver & Boyd and Simpkin & Marshall, London, 1832. Third Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 3rd Edition, Revised; 488 pages. Illustrated, 16 engravings. Dark brown cloth binding with paper label on spine. Covers worn and stained, label on spine partly missing, map wrinkled and laid in, pages browning, some foxing, mainly to page edges, some part of page edges missing, mainly pages 287-296, not affecting text. Contents clean. One of the most popular general accounts of polar exploration, reprinted many times and translated into several languages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; 19th century; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1322. .

Seeley Service, 1923. Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; 316 pages with 4 pages of adverts at end, frontispiece, 3 maps, (2 folding tipped in after index) and 24 b/w plate leaves, 5 illustrations in text. Blue black cloth with light blue titling to spine and illustration of ship on front cover. Minor stain to front cover, contents clean, some very minor spotting, mainly to endpapers . A very nice copy. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; 1900-1920; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 177. .

Hutchinson & Co, 1907. First Edition. Cloth. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st UK Edition: xx, 411pages, illustrated, with 98 illustrations by the author and two folding maps. Original black/brown cloth, gilt vignette of man, sled and dogs to front cover. The account of the second unsuccessful attempt by Peary, in 1906, to reach the North Pole. He was forced to turn back 175 miles from his destination. He passed Ellesmere Land to Cape Sheridan and the Arctic Basin, returning along the coast of Greenland. In this, his second to last expedition he claimed to have reached 87º06', the farthest north any had yet been. Arctic Biblio,13226. Ricks p. 169. Peary made several expeditions attempting to reach the North Pole. In this, his 1906 expedition, he reached latitude 87degrees 06minutes N, about 175 miles from the Pole, the closest to the Pole yet achieved. While ostensibly failures, these expeditions allowed him to test his equipment, dogs and men, honing his skills for what he later… Read More

Hutchinson & Co, 1907. Cloth. Reading Copy. 1st UK Edition: xx, 411pp, illustrated, with 98 illustrations by the author and two folding maps. Original black/brown cloth, gilt vignette of man, sled and dogs to front cover. The account of the second unsuccessful attempt by Peary, in 1906, to reach the North Pole. He was forced to turn back 175 miles from his destination. He passed Ellesmere Land to Cape Sheridan and the Arctic Basin, returning along the coast of Greenland. In this, his second to last expedition he claimed to have reached 87º06', the farthest north any had yet been. Arctic Biblio,13226. Ricks p. 169. Peary made several expeditions attempting to reach the North Pole. In this, his 1906 expedition, he reached latitude 87degrees 06minutes N, about 175 miles from the Pole, the closest to the Pole yet achieved. While ostensibly failures, these expeditions allowed him to test his equipment, dogs and men, honing his skills for what he later (1909) reported to be a successful… Read More

Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1944. 2nd Printing. Cloth. Good/Poor. 2nd Printing: 335pp, illustrated, 44 b/w photographs, end paper maps. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling in price clipped illustrated dustjacket. Dustjacket tatty. Shelfware, spotting to page edges. Contents clean. Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2911. .