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Phila: Childs & Peterson. GOOD books. VG internally. Tight binding. No loose pages.. 1857. early editions. Hardcover. GOOD books. VG inside. Worn covers. Brown cloth. Faded gilt spine lettering. Sailing ship vignette stamped on all covers. . Each vol with a frontis and an additional engraved tp. Vol 1 also with a fold out map & a single page map, plus 11 tissue guarded plates. Vol 2 with a fold out chart of Baffin bay isothermal lines and 7 plates. All tips bumped & worn to underlying board. spine ends chipped & frayed. Vol 2 inner hinge paper cracking, hinges still sound. Vol 2 scattered light foxing. Attachment areas of both fold outs torn, now repaired with archival tissue. There is no list of illustrations with names, numbers or page numbers. This was not done till the later 1 vol edition. A copy of the list from a 1 vol edition is included.. .

Phila: Childs & Peterson. FAIR book. Title page and map supplied in facsimile.. c1850s. early edition. Hardcover. FAIR book. VG text but MISSING all prelims BEFORE the one page publisher's ads. NO map, frontis, half title or full title page. . Nice reading copy. Full sheep binding with two gilt lettered black leather spine labels stating "ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS" & "VOL. 1". Lettering quite clear. Paper of both inner hinges cracked, tho hinges still sound. Text block tight. No loose pages or sprung signatures. Scuffed & worn covers. Text decent with scattered light aging & foxing BUT all plate margins foxed. This foxing has offset to the adjoining pages. There are 10 pages of notes at end, should be 12, so, last leaf MISSING. Plates & all text pages, but for that very last, collated complete. .

Hartford: Bliss. VG book. Bliss logo blind stamped on rear board. Very nice book.. 1872 (1868cp).. Later 1 vol ed. Hardcover. VG book. Brown cloth. AEG. Gilt cover lettering, gilt vignette of small ship among icebergs. Tight. Very clean, in & out. . TP dated 1871, with 1868 cp date and the engraved tp dated 1872. This edition with all 244 illustrations of the original 1856 2 vol edition. PLUS: This, and only this, edition lists all these illustrations. The 1st edition did not. The numbering and titles of the plates are the same(with 1 exception) for both 2 vol & 1 vol editions. So the 1 vol plate index can be used to find each plate in the earlier 2 vol editions. This 1 vol edition WAS NOT published with the fold out chart, but LAID IN is the fold out chart from an 1857 printing. All text block edges gilt, with all 3 smooth and bright as new. Very nice text block. BUT: extreme bottom corner damp stained, 1/4" at most. AND: all plates offset to adjoining text page & with few lightly… Leer más

New York, NY: William Morrow & Company. VG book, no DJ. SIGNED & INSCRIBED on fep.. 1948 (1947cp). 2nd. Hardcover. VG book, no DJ. Printed on inexpensive wartime paper so just a little dull. Spine w few light foxing spots. 8vo, viii,373pp. .

NY: Knickerbocker Press. VG book, no D/J. SIGNED.. 1927. 1st edition. Hardcover. VG book, no D/J. TEG. Gilt lettered dark blue cloth. Elegantly inscribed & SIGNED "....from Mitchell Kaplan, the author". . FINE inside except where few pages roughly uncut. Spine gilt faded away. Extrems rubbed. .

Toronto: Stoddart. (2001). 1st Cdn. Hardcover. MINT book, MINT DJ. Still enclosed in publisher's shrink wrap. Folio, 238pp. .

St Paul: Swedish Council. FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). DJ bright but w minor edgewear.. 1975. 1st edition.. Hardcover.

NT et al: Harper. VG book, VG+ DJ(in Brodart). FINE book,F but light top edge stai. 1966. 1st edition.. Hardcover.

London: John Mason. FAIR book. MISSING backstrip. 1st ed. 8"x5", 509pp.. 1833. 1st edition.. Hardcover. FAIR book, GOOD text. (i-iii),iv-xvi, f/o map,(1),2-509pp. FINE f/o map has NO fold line tears, foxing, aging, soiling, etc. . PRICED FOR A REBIND. Upper board (with a large splotch of black stain) detached but present. Frontis titled "AN UMPONEDO" has light margin foxing. "NATIVES ESCORTING KAY" faces p95, water stains in margin corners (BUT, NOT IN ADJOINING LEAVES) & other light soiling. "KAFFIR WOMAN" faces p156, light margin foxing. "MOUNT COLE MISSION VALLEY"faces p267, light foxing. "GRAHAM'S TOWN, ALBANY" faces p431, light margin foxing. These plate stains have offset to adjacent leaves. Few text pages with light scattered foxing, but almost no other staining or aging. Few loosening pages. .

London: Cassell. VG book, no DJ. SIGNED on fep, dated 1928. Bright book.. 1928. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG book, no DJ. DJ flaps & front panel (only) laid in. Spine ends w light wear. Spine cocked 1/4". .

Washington: WSGPO. NEAR FINE book. FINE inside. Gilt leteed black cloth.. 1975. 1st edition.. Hardcover. NEAR FINE book. Inscribed to "Finger Lakes Times" editor Thomas Jennings from Congressman Frank Horton. 8vo, 51pp. .

Kanham, MD: Addison. FINE book, FINE DJ(in Brodart). SIGNED & inscribed on fep.. 1991. 1st edition.. Hardcover.

NY: Macmillan. FINE book, NEAR FINE DJ. Exact REPRINT of the 2 vol 1943 ed.. 1956 (1943cp). 1st 1 vol ed.. Hardcover. FINE book, NEAR FINE DJ(in Brodart). Few 1/4" DJ tears. Folio, xxii,414 pages, then 308 pages of b/w plates, lastly, 34pp. . Book has one flaw; text block top edge dust stained. .

NY: Macmillan. NEAR FINE set. 1st ed. Plates are in vol 2.. 1943. 1st edition.. Hardcover. NEAR FINE books, no DJs. FINE inside. Gilt lettered red cloth. Flaws: sunned spine, tips bumped. Folio, 414,306,33pp. .

NY: Dial. AS NEW book, NEAR FINE DJ. DJ with a 1" tear, rear panel rubbed.. 1982 (1979cp). 3rd printing. hardcover. AS NEW book, NEAR FINE DJ(in Brodart). Inscribed & SIGNED by the dog & author on first blank. Pinkerton's head drawn in. .

NY: Macmillan. VG+ book, no DJ. FINE text. Minor edgewear, spine lightly sunned. 1938. 1st edition.. Hardcover.

Winnipeg: Dept of Tourism. FINE book BUT spine ends bumped. Folio, 115pp. 1982. Softcover.

NY: Elsevier-Dutton. VG book, VG+(in Brodart). "95" heavily stamped in red on fep.. (1978). 1st edition.. Hardcover.

NY: Elsevier-Dutton. VG book, VG DJ(in Brodart).. (1978). 1st edition.. Hardcover.

L: Oxford U Press. VG book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Bright & tight.. 1953 (1922cp). 4th ed. Hardcover. VG book, VG DJ. Bright & tight. DJ has a few short tears & tiny chips. 8vo, 607pp. .