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Kane, Elisha Kent | Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55 (meer info) | Childs Peterson, Philadelphia, 1856, first edition, 2 volumes | A remarkable set, one of the few earliest copies as "Kane's Sea" (now Kane Basin) had not been added... | € 750.00 |
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Valentia, George A. | Reize naar Indie, Ceylon, de Roode Zee, Abyssinie en Egypte, in de jaren 1802 tot 1806 (meer info) | Francois Bohn, Haarlem 1816-1818, first Dutch edition, 4 volumes | 8vo,13x21cm, modern hardcover. vi, 372; vi, 356; viii, 380; vi, 402 pages with 8 plates. Besides a f... | € 750.00 |
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M'Clintock, F.L | The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas. A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions (meer info) | London, John Murray 1859, First UK Edition | 8vo, [xxvii], [i], 403pp., [1]ads. 4 folding maps | € 550.00 |
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Jackson, Frederick George | The Great Frozen Land (Bolshaia Zemelskija Tundra) : Narrative of a Winter Journey Across the Tundras and a Sojourn Among the Samoyads (meer info) | London, Macmillan and Co 1895, first Edition | 8vo, [xviii], 297, [ii, ads] pages, frontis with tissue guard, numerous illustrations from photos an... | € 120.00 |
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Grenfell, Sir Wilfred | Adrift on an ice-pan (meer info) | Jarrolds, London, ~1930, first edition, DJ | 8vo with dust jacket. 92 page on thick paper with illustrations. Apart from a little wear and some m... | € 50.00 |
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Young, E. D. | Nyassa; A Journal of Adventures (meer info) | London, John Murray, 1877 first edition | 8vo, with dark green cloth paneled in black to the front board. [xii] + 239 pages, with 32 pages of ... | € 430.00 |
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Burton R. F. Captain / Lacerda e Almeida | The Lands of Cazembe. Lacerda’s Journey to Cazembe in 1798. (meer info) | London, John Murray 1873 first edition | 8vo, vii, [1], 271, [1] pages. Original blue cloth, spine gilt, large folding map. | € 220.00 |
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Bidlingmaier, Friedrich | Zu den Wundern des Sudpols. Erlebnisse auf der Deutschen Sudpolar-Expedition 1901-1903. (meer info) | Stuttgart 1916 | 8vo, variant brown paper covered boards. 157 pages plus ad., frontispiece portrait and 22 illustrati... | € 220.00 |
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Shillibeer, J. | A Narrative of the Briton's Voyage to to Pitcairn's Island (meer info) | Londom, Law and Whittaker 1818, third edition | 8vo, uncut in original boards, rebacked with new label. (12), 180, (2) pages with 16 plates on 12 le... | € 950.00 |
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Vogel, Eduard (Wagner, Hermann) | Ed. Vogel, De reiziger in Afrika : zijne reizen en ontdekkingen in de binnenlanden van Afrika, (meer info) | Leyden : Sythoff 1862, first Dutch edition | 8vo, Three quarter red calf, viii, 395 pages with many wood engravings | € 250.00 |
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Rohlfs, Gerhard | Meine Mission nach Abessinien (meer info) | Leipzig, Brockhaus 1883 first edition | 8vo, somewhat later half morocco gilt with marbled endpapers. xx, 348 pages with a folding map and 2... | € 850.00 |
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Philip, George | Philips’ County Atlas of England and Wales | London, George Philip [1890] | 8vo, soft covers, coloured maps. Good. | € 80.00 |
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Leig, Charles | Zee-Togt van Kapiteyn Charles Leig, gedaan na Gujana.. (meer info) | Leyden, Pieter van der Aa 1706 | 8vo simply rebound in red boards, browning and traces of use. 40 pages plus index, 1 folding map wi... | € 190.00 |
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Lichtenstein, H. | Reizen in het zuidelijk gedeelte van Afrika in de jaren 1803-1806 (meer info) | Dordrecht, Blussé Van Braam 1818 | 8vo, simple old boards. x, (2), 331 pages plus ads, with 5 plates. Used copy with scattered dampstai... | € 280.00 |
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Anon | Naufrages célèbres ou aventures les plus remarquables des marins depuis le 15. Siècle jusqu’à nos jours | Tours, A. Mame 1861 | 8vo, richly decorated boards in excellent condition. 236 pages with a frontispiece of Bougainville. ... | € 80.00 |
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Borchgrevink, Carsten | First on the Antarctic Continent, Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898 - 1900 (meer info) | London George Newnes, 1901 first edition | 8vo, red orange cloth with gilt titling on front and spine. xvi, 333 pages and 31 pages ads. With po... | € 800.00 |
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Lecointe, Georges | Au pays des manchots. Récit du voyage de la "Belgica" (meer info) | Bruxelles Société Belge de Librairie Oscar Schepens 1904, first edition | 8vo, red cloth with original publisher's pictorial stiff wrappers bound in, a bit soiling and small ... | € 370.00 |
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Rogers, Captain Woodes | A cruising voyage round the world: First to the south sea, thence to the East-Indies and Homewards by the Cape the good hope. (meer info) | London, Bernard Lintot, 1726 second (sic) edition | 8vo, recent half leather. xvi, 428, 57, xvii-xix ( misbound), (7) pages with 5 engraved folding maps... | € 980.00 |
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Burton, Richard Francis | A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome (meer info) | London, Tinsley Bros 1864, second edition 2 volumes | 8vo, recent green half morocco, frontispieces. This second edition is the same date, publisher, and ... | € 650.00 |
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Hutchinson, T. J. | Narrative of the Niger, Tshadda Binue Exploration (meer info) | London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans 1855 first edition | 8vo, rebound in paper covered boards in stead of the simple publisher’s cloth of the "Traveller's ... | € 430.00 |
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Kolff, D.H. | Voyage of the Dutch Brig of War Dourga through the southern and little known parts of the Moluccan Archipelago (meer info) | James Madden co, London 1840 first English edition | 8vo, rebound in half leather with marbled boards. xxiv, 365 pages with 2 maps and one leaf of publis... | € 650.00 |
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Delegorgue, L.A.J. | Voyage dans l'Afrique Australe notamment dans le territoire de Natal (meer info) | Paris, A. René et Ce 1847, first edition 2 volumes signed presentation | 8vo, quarter black leather gilt, rubbed. xvi, 580; 622 pages, 2 folding maps, frontispiece portrait ... | € 650.00 |
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Burton, Richard Francis | The gold-mines of Midian and the ruined Midianite cities (meer info) | London, C. Kegan Paul Co 1878 second edition | 8vo, publishers' (first edition!) binding, rebacked retaining original cloth. xvi, 395, [5]pp., 30 p... | € 350.00 |
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Elton, J. Frederick | Travels and Researches among The Lakes and Mountains of Eastern Central Africa (meer info) | London, John Murray 1879 first edition | 8vo publisher’s decorated cloth, minor traces of use. xxii, 418 pages, 3 folding maps, 14 plates a... | € 550.00 |
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Peters, Carl | New light on dark Africa (meer info) | London etc, Ward Lock and Co 1891, first English edition | 8vo, publisher’s decorated cloth. xviii, 597 pages, frontispiece and 32 full-page plates, illustra... | € 750.00 |
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Marr, Scout (James William Slessor) | Into the Frozen South By Scout Marr, of the Quest Expedition (meer info) | London, Cassell and Company 1923 first edition first impression | 8vo, publisher’s decorated cloth. x, 245 pages with 29 illustrations. Very good, scattered margina... | € 270.00 |
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Astrup, Eivind | With Peary Near The Pole (meer info) | London, C. Arthur Pearson 1898 first English edition | 8vo, publisher’s cloth with a blindstamped sledge scene on front board. 362 pages with a large fol... | € 650.00 |
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Borchgrevink, Carsten | Das Festland am Südpol. Die Expedition zum Südpolarland in den Jahren 1898-1900 (meer info) | Breslau, Schlesische Verlags-Anstalt Schottlaender 1905 first German edition | 8vo, publisher’s decorated cloth. (6), 609 pages with 6 coloured plates, 5 maps and many other ful... | € 220.00 |
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Richardson, Sir John | Arctic Searching Expedition: A Journal Of A Boat-Voyage Through Rupert’s Land And The Arctic Sea, In Search Of The Discovery Ships Under Command Of Sir John Franklin (meer info) | New York, Harper Brothers, 1852 first American edition | 8vo, publisher's blind stamped cloth, 516 pages. Spine damaged, ends repaired. Fairly good. | € 130.00 |
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Stanley, Henry M. | In darkest Africa or the quest rescue and retreat of Emin governor of Equatoria (meer info) | New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1890, first US edition, salesman’s sample! | 8vo, publisher's cloth. About 100 pages with several illustrations, both portraits, three full-page ... | € 500.00 |
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Stanley, Henry M. | In darkest Africa or the quest rescue and retreat of Emin governor of Equatoria (meer info) | New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1890, second US edition, salesman’s sample! | 8vo, publisher's cloth. About 100 pages with several illustrations, both portraits, three full-page ... | € 400.00 |
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Taylor, Griffith | With Scott: the Silver Lining (meer info) | London; Smith, Elder Co, first edition, first issue , 1916 | 8vo, publisher's decorated cloth, rubbed. xiv, (4), 464 pages with many maps and plates, full page a... | € 580.00 |
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Wild, Frank | Shackleton's Last Voyage. The story of the Quest (meer info) | London, Cassell 1923 first edition | 8vo, publisher's decorated cloth, little rubbed and discoloured. xvi, 372 pages with a coloured fron... | € 680.00 |
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Cole, William | Life in the Niger, or, the Journal of an African Trader (meer info) | London, Saunders, Otley, and Co, 1862 first edition | 8vo, publisher's pebbled cloth, rubbed and soiling. 208 (8 ads) pages. Good copy of a rarely found b... | € 180.00 |
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Peary-Diebitsch, Josephine | My Arctic Journal. A year among ice-fields and Eskimos. With an account of the great white journey across Greenland by Robert E. Peary (meer info) | New York Contemporary Publishing Co. 1893, first edition | 8vo, publisher’s cloth. 241 pages with 4 colour plates, many photos and maps. Very good. | € 150.00 |
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Simpson, Alexander | The Life and Travels of Thomas Simpson, The Arctic Explorer (meer info) | London, Richard Bentley 1845 first edition | 8vo, publisher’s brown embossed cloth with yellow endpapers, spine sunned. viii, 424 pages with fr... | € 650.00 |
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(Barrie, J.M.) | Like English Gentlemen: To Peter Scott from the Author of "Where's Master?" (meer info) | London New York Toronto, Hodder Stoughton (1913) first edition | 8vo, publisher’s pictorial boards and endpapers, lightly rubbed. 62, (1) pages. Very good copy. Sc... | € 90.00 |
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Brett, Rev. W. H. | The Indian Tribes of Guiana; Their Condition and Habits, With researches into their past history, superstitions, legends,antiquities, languages, c. (meer info) | London, Bell and Daldy 1868 first edition | 8vo, publisher’s green cloth with traces of use. xiii, 500 pages with a folding map, 8 striking ha... | € 220.00 |
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Ellis, Rev. William | Madagascar Revisited (meer info) | London, John Murray 1867 first edition | 8vo, publisher’s cloth. xviii, (2), 502, 32 (ads) pages with a frontispiece, a folding plan of Ant... | € 170.00 |
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Gleichen, Count (Edward) | With the Mission to Menelik 1897 (meer info) | London, Edward Arnold 1898 first edition | 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth with gilt. xi, 363 pages with a photogravure frontispiece, many (full... | € 250.00 |
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Borup, George | A tenderfoot with Peary (meer info) | London, Eveleigh Nash 1911 first British edition | 8vo, publisher’s cloth. xvi, (2), 317 pages with 46 b/w photographs and a folding map. Good used c... | € 120.00 |
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Baikie, William Balfour | Narrative of an exploring voyage up the rivers Kwo'ra and Bi'nue (commonly known as the Niger and Tsádda) in 1854 (meer info) | London, John Murray 1856 first edition | 8vo, publisher’s cloth with wear, mottled. xvi, 456 pages with a frontispiece, folding plan and fo... | € 550.00 |
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Levick, G. Murray | Antarctic Penguins. A study of their social habits (meer info) | London, William Heinemann May 1914 first edition | 8vo, publisher’s cloth. x, 140, [1] pages with frontispiece and 74 photos. Near Very Good copy of ... | € 160.00 |
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Goodridge, Charles Medyett | Narrative of a voyage to the South Seas, and the shipwreck of the Princes of Wales Cutter, with an account of two years residence on an uninhabited island (meer info) | Exeter, W.C. Featherstone 1841 fourth edition | 8vo, publisher’s cloth rebacked preserving part of the spine, front hinge repaired. [14, subscribe... | € 150.00 |
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Reade, W. Winwood | Savage Africa; Being the Narrative of a Tour in Equatorial, Southwestern, and Northwestern Africa (meer info) | New York, Harper Brothers 1864 first US edition | 8vo, publisher’s cloth, spine ends restored. xi, (1), 13-452, (6 ads) pages with a folding map and... | € 260.00 |
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Gros, Jules / (Marie-Joseph Bonnat) | Voyages, aventures et captivité de J. Bonnat chez les Achantis (meer info) | Paris, Librairie Plon 1884 first edition | 8vo, publisher’s wrappers. iv, 278 pages with a folding map, frontispiece and 13 (2 double page) i... | € 130.00 |
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Hore, Edward Coode | Tanganyika: Eleven Years In Central Africa (meer info) | London, Edward Stanford 1892 | 8vo, publisher’s cloth. xii, (4), 306, (2) pages, large folding frontispiece of Ujiji and 14 plate... | € 130.00 |
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Smith, A. Donaldson | Through unknown African countries. The first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu (meer info) | London and New York, Arnold 1897 first edition | 8vo, publisher’s cloth. xvi, 471 pages. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, illustrations from pho... | € 380.00 |
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Ellis, Ref. William | Three Visits to Madagascar During the Years 1853-1854-1856 Including a Journey to the Capital with Notices of the Natural History of the Country and of the Present Civilisation of the People (meer info) | London, John Murray 1858, first edition | 8vo, publisher’s cloth. xvii, (2), 470, 2 (ads) pages with folding frontispiece, map and many (in ... | € 240.00 |
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Ramseyer (Friedrich August) and Kühne (Johannes) | Four years in Ashantee (meer info) | London, James Nisbet 1875 first English edition | 8vo, publisher’s decorated cloth, mottled. xv, 320 pages with 4 wood engravings. Rare first Englis... | € 350.00 |
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