The Folio Society MMVll The quest for the Northwest Passage

By Glyn Williams

English rear-admiral and Arctic explorer (1790-1855) best known for his 1819-1820 expedition through the Parry Channel, probably the most successful in the long quest for the Northwest Passage. ALS si

A pair of Easton Press books on scientific discovery, including The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909 by Pierre Berton and The Descent of Man by Charles D

North-West Passage Collection of travel narratives comprising: Franklin, Sir John. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22. London: John Murray, 1823 [i

(NORTHWEST PASSAGE -- THE SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN.) Chart of the North-West Passage Discovered by Capt. McClure H.M.S. Investigator 1850-1853... Third Edition with the Discoveries of the American Arctic E

Folio Society Group of deluxe limited editions, natural history comprising: Illustrations of Birds Drawn for John Gould by Edward Lear. Collected and Introduced by David Attenborough, 2012. One of 780

Folio Society, The Letterpress Shakespeare, King John, Henry V, King Henry VIII, Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts One and Two and Henry VI Parts One to Three, limited editions, blue leather spi

Folio Society.- Lear (Edward) Illustrations of Birds drawn for John Gould, one of 780 copies signed by David Attenborough who wrote the introduction, colour plates, original dark blue morocco, gilt, b

NO RESERVE Folio Society.- Woolf (Virginia) Between the Acts, frontispiece and illustrations by Gillian Barlow, original cloth, slight rubbing to spine extremities, slip-case, a little rubbed, split a

Folio Society Group of deluxe facsimiles The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. With Wood Engravings by Eric Gill, printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1929 [2010]. One of 1980 numbe

(TRAVEL -- ARCTIC -- NORTHWEST PASSAGE.) Three works in one volume. 8vo, 8x5 inches, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards with gilt spine labels, worn, hinges split but cords holding; light foxing,

Folio Society.- Birds.- Sharpe (Richard Bowdler) Monograph of the Paradise or Birds of Paradise..., 2 vol., from an edition limited to 1000 copies, with a foreword by David Attenborough, 79 whole-page

Collection of Mystery Books, including a boxed set of Raymond Chandler, Folio Society Edition; Dorothy Sayers boxed set, Folio Society Edition; and others by Agatha Christie, Earl Biggers, Arthur Cona

Property of a Okatie, SC Estate Description: Sharpe's Birds of Paradise: The Plates, Folio Society Facsimile , one volume from the limited edition run, #59 of 1000 copies, with a foreword by David

Heading: (Dali, Salvador) Author: Title: Tales from the One Thousand and One Nights Place Published: London Publisher:The Folio Society Date Published: 2016 Description: 2

Folio Society.- Manuscript facsimile.- Luttrell Psalter (The), one of 1480 copies, colour illustrations, prospectus etc loosely inserted, original royal blue goatskin by Smith Settle with blocked desi

Folio Society.- Dalí (Salvador).- Tales from the One Thousand and One Nights, 2 vol., from an edition limited to 750 copies, 50 illustrations in colour by Salvador Dalí, text translated by M

1824 ARCTIC Parry Voyages North Pole MAPS Northwest Passage Hecla Fury Ships William Parry was one of the first explorers to reach the North Pole and the Northwest Passage, best remembered for his per

Special binding. MILTON (John) Paradise Lost. The Folio Society, 1991, folio, illustrated by Ian Pollock, the full morocco binding decorated in onlays with a large coiled beige snake, gilt flecked and

NO RESERVE Folio Society.- White (T.H.) Mistress Masham's Repose, presentation copy from binder Charles Stewart, plates, original moiré binding, gilt, lightly sunned spine, slip-case, a little ru

Folio Society.- Roberts (David) The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea and Arabia [and] Egypt and Nubia, 2 vol., one of 1000 copies, colour plates and illustrations, original pictorial cloth, slip-case, folio,

Folio Society.- Kipling (Rudyard) Just So Stories, one of 1000 copies, introduction by Michael Morpurgo, mounted colour plates and illustrations by Niroot Puttapipat, with an original etching also sig

Folio Society.- Rabelais (François) Gargantua and Pantagruel, 2 vol., one of 500 copies, illustrations by Gustave Dore, translated by M.A. Screech, original morocco-backed cloth, gilt, slip-case,

Folio Society.- Illuminated Manuscript Facsimile.- Liber Bestiarum, 2 vol., one of a limited facsimile edition, illustrations, original Nigerian goatskin by Brian Settle of Ludlow and blocked with a d