ARCTIC ADVENTURE & EXPLORATION BOOKS (3) W/ MAPS
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Explorations and Hunting in the Arctic Region.
1) THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES, Ernest Thompson Seton,1911.
A canoe journey of 2000 miles in search of Caribou: the account of a voyage in the region north of Aylmer Lake.
Publisher: Charles Scribners Sons, N.Y. 1911.
1st U.S. Edition. xvi + 415pp.
Black and white photo plates, maps and drawings.
Gilt decorated green ribbed cloth.
*An account of a naturalists trip down the Athabaska and Slave rivers to Great Slave Lake, and Northeast to the Aylmer Lake and Clinton-Golden Lake region of the barren lands. Seaton traveled with E.A. Preble of the U.S. Biological Survey, and collected information on wildlife and characteristics of the landscape,
2) OUR ARCTIC PROVINCE: Alaska and the Seal Islands by Henry Wood Elliott (1846-1930).
Publisher: Charles Scribners, N.Y. 1888.
First edition.
49 full-page illustrations, including frontispiece.
Textural illustrations: 5 maps, 2 in the text and one large folding map.
Hardcover publishers black cloth adorned with gilt lettering and red and yellow illustration.
3) A THOUSAND DAYS IN THE ARCTIC by Frederick G.Jackson, 1899.
Narrative of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedotop (1894-97), which established winter quaters at Cape Flora. They made sledge journeys in the archipelago, surveyed, made scientific collections, hunted, and described the polar night--also included is a chapter on scurvy.
1st U.S. edition. xxiii + 940pp. + (4pp adv.).
Many b/w photo plates (incl. frontis portraits) one folding plate, text illus., 5 folding colour maps. Pictorial cloth, color image of mountain side on cover.
Condition: All books are in good condition, all maps present and complete, clean throughout.
Provenance: Michigan Estate-single owner.
ATTENTION ARMCHAIR EXPLORERS
1) THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES, Ernest Thompson Seton,1911.
A canoe journey of 2000 miles in search of Caribou: the account of a voyage in the region north of Aylmer Lake.
Publisher: Charles Scribners Sons, N.Y. 1911.
1st U.S. Edition. xvi + 415pp.
Black and white photo plates, maps and drawings.
Gilt decorated green ribbed cloth.
*An account of a naturalists trip down the Athabaska and Slave rivers to Great Slave Lake, and Northeast to the Aylmer Lake and Clinton-Golden Lake region of the barren lands. Seaton traveled with E.A. Preble of the U.S. Biological Survey, and collected information on wildlife and characteristics of the landscape,
2) OUR ARCTIC PROVINCE: Alaska and the Seal Islands by Henry Wood Elliott (1846-1930).
Publisher: Charles Scribners, N.Y. 1888.
First edition.
49 full-page illustrations, including frontispiece.
Textural illustrations: 5 maps, 2 in the text and one large folding map.
Hardcover publishers black cloth adorned with gilt lettering and red and yellow illustration.
3) A THOUSAND DAYS IN THE ARCTIC by Frederick G.Jackson, 1899.
Narrative of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedotop (1894-97), which established winter quaters at Cape Flora. They made sledge journeys in the archipelago, surveyed, made scientific collections, hunted, and described the polar night--also included is a chapter on scurvy.
1st U.S. edition. xxiii + 940pp. + (4pp adv.).
Many b/w photo plates (incl. frontis portraits) one folding plate, text illus., 5 folding colour maps. Pictorial cloth, color image of mountain side on cover.
Condition: All books are in good condition, all maps present and complete, clean throughout.
Provenance: Michigan Estate-single owner.
ATTENTION ARMCHAIR EXPLORERS
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