Polar exploration rare books

First edition, author's autograph edition, limited to 1000 copies printed on rag paper, signed by the author and publisher, 8vo, etched frontispiece portrait, title vignette, 4 maps (2 folding), 72 photographic illustrations on 55 plates, 17 text vignettes, original parchment backed blue boards gilt, parchment tips, light soiling to spine, an excellent copy.

First edition, 8vo, xxvii, 403 pp., a3 pages ads at end dated January 1860, 2 folding maps (1 in the rear pocket, 1 showing 2 charts), 16 plates, original pictorial gilt blind-stamped blue cloth, brown endpapers, a fine copy.

First edition. 8vo., xiv, 468 pp., 7 engraved plates and 1 engraved folding map, contemporary calf gilt, neat repairs to extremities, a very good copy.

First edition. Folio, viii, 484 pp., 16 folding maps (occasional short tears to folds), 16 plates, illustrations in the text, contemporary blue half roan, marbled boards, lightly faded, neat restoration to extremities, an excellent copy.

First English edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, xxxii, 335; xiv, 303 pp., coloured lithographed frontispiece, maps, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, some slight spotting, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, top edges gilt, an excellent set.

First edition, 8vo., xx, 236pp., 16 pp. adverts, folding map of Kerguelen (small repair at fold), one plate, 53 illustrations in the text, original dark blue cloth, spine gilt, yellow endpapers, an excellent example.

First edition, 4to, edition deluxe, limited to 500 copies signed by Peary and Bob Bartlett, xii, 326 pp., 4 photogravures, 112 tipped-in photographic illustrations, large coloured map, modern full blue morocco gilt, gilt pictorial roundel to upper cover, slipcase, a fine example.

First edition. 8vo., 22, [2]pp., frontispiece portrait, original black stencilled wrappers, photograph of the Nimrod tipped on to upper cover, stitched as issued, a very good example.

First edition, signed by the authors, number 386 of an edition limited to 950 copies plus 50 proofs, landscape folio (44.5 x 34 cm), 336 pp., 330 full photographic illustrations and 15 duotones, original fine grey goatskin binding, velvet doublures and flyleaves, linen and velvet-lined archival box, fine.

First edition, 8vo., 24pp., 8 photographic illustrations, original wrappers printed in red, ads to covers, an excellent example.