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| 51. | Henrik, Hans. MEMOIRS OF HANS HENDRIK, THE ARCTIC TRAVELLER, SERVING UNDER KANE, HAYES, HALL AND NARES, 1853-1876. Lon. 1878. b/w map. 100 pp. Interesting text. Author was a Greenland Eskimo who served with several polar expeditions. He was a hunter, and this account is rich in “details of the travels and living conditions of these expeditions as they were part of Hans Hendrik’s experiences, particularly the hunting activities.” - Arctic Bib. 6576. Scarce in the trade. Bound in original cloth. Bottom of backstrip chipped. $250 See Illustration |
| 52. | Hetherington, Hugh. MELVILLE’S REVIEWERS. NY. (1961) b/w plates. x, 304 pp. British and American reaction to Melville’s fiction, 1846-1891. First ed. VG $30 |
| 53. | Hinz, Rev. John. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY OF THE ESKIMO LANGUAGE. Bethlehem, PA. n.d. (1944). xiii, 194 pp. First edition, and scarce thus. VG-Fine in original pebbled black covers with gold lettering. $75 |
| 54. | Hydrographic Department, Admiralty. ARCTIC PILOT. VOLS I-III. Lon. 1947, 1949. b/w recognition views and photo ills., folding charts. l, 526; liv, 565; lii, 491 pp. Fifth, fifth and fourth editions respectively, with supplements. Vol I is USSR coast, vol II is Iceland and Greenland, vol. III is Davis Strait, Baffin Bay, Hudson Bay, etc. All VG $125 |
| 55. | Hydrographic Department, Admiralty. THE ANTARCTIC PILOT (AND SUPPLEMENT). Lon. 1948, 1952. b/w photo ills. 2 vols. 370, (1); 48 pp. “Comprising the coasts of Antarctica and all islands southward of the usual route of vessels.” Supplement is “second edition 1948, corrected to June, 1952.” Spence 43. VG condition $250 |
| 56. | Hydrographic Office. REPORTED DANGERS TO NAVIGATION IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN, INCLUSIVE OF THE CHINA AND JAPAN SEAS AND THE EAST INDIA ARCHIPELAGO... PART I. NORTH OF THE EQUATOR. Wash. 1871. 143 pp. Over 1100 hazards listed, located and described. Covers dusty, edges of pages waterstained. $75 |
| 57. | Hydrographic Office. SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR ANTARCTICA INCLUDING THE OFF-LYING ISLANDS SOUTH OF LATITUDE 60---H. O. NO. 138 Wash. 1943. b/w photo views, many folding, folding map in back pocket. 4to. 312 pp. First edition of this interesting view of Antarctic coasts. With corrections up to 1952 inserted. VG with map present in back pocket. $50 See Illustration |
| 58. | Innis, Harold. THE FUR TRADE IN CANADA. Toronto. 1956. xi, 463 pp. This is the revised edition of Innis’ masterful study of Canadian economic history. First published in 1930, then improved in this edition, it has continued to be an important text. VG, dj. $45 |
| 59. | James, James Alton. THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION OF RUSSIAN AMERICA AND THE PURCHASE OF ALASKA. Evanston. 1942. b/w plates. xii, 276 pp. First edition. VG $50 |
| 60. | Jarrett, Dudley. BRITISH NAVAL DRESS. Lon. (1960) Color frontis, b/w ills. xi, 148 pp. Authoritative look at development of naval uniform from landsman’s dress. Well illustrated. 1st ed. VG, dj. $75 See Illustration |
| 61. | Keppel, Thomas. THE LIFE OF AUGUSTUS VISCOUNT KEPPEL, ADMIRALTY OF THE WHITE, AND FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY IN 1782-3. Lon. 1842. b/w frontis. 2 vols. xvi, 446; vi, 438 pp. Keppel joined the navy at age ten, sailed around the world, was shipwrecked, taken prisoner, battled Barbary pirates, was tried and acquitted for loss of a ship, and fought the French and Spanish as well as the pesky American rebels. In preparing his memoirs, Keppel had access to privately held papers of Lord St. Vincent, Lady Jervis, James de Saumarez, and Admiralty records. His opinions on the mismanagement of the Royal Navy are frankly expressed. Bound in original patterned cloth with gold lettering. Spines lightly sunned, minor wear, but VG $350 |
| 62. | Kohlmeister, Benjamin and George Kmoch. JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE FROM OKKAK, ON THE COAST OF LABRADOR, TO UNGAVA BAY, WESTWARD OF CAPE CHUDLEIGH... Lon. 1814. b/w folding map. 83 pp. “Journal of a trip undertaken by two Moravian missionaries with four Eskimo companions, in the summer of 1811.” Arctic Bib. 8996. An Arctic rarity. No copies of this first edition available. Last copy to have sold at auction was in 1986. Bound in old boards with hand lettered label. Two small circular stamps from a Swiss Missionary library at bottom of title page, else VG, unmarked. Map in excellent condition. $2500 See Illustration |
| 63. | Lamb, G.F. FRANKLIN. HAPPY VOYAGER. Lon. (1956) b/w plates. xi-293 pp. “Being the life and death of Sir John Franklin.” VG in dj. $20 |
| 64. | Latrobe, J.H.B. A LOST CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE STEAMBOAT. Baltimore. 1871. 44 pp. Scarce pamphlet on early steamboats, narrated by early 19th century witnesses. VG in original wrappers, bound in blue boards. Ex-libris Interstate Commerce Commission library. $50 |
| 65. | Lawrence, William Beach. VISITATION AND SEARCH. Bos. 1858. ix, 218 pp. “Or, an historical sketch of the British claim to exercise a maritime police over the vessels of all nations, in peace as well as war, with an inquiry into the expediency of terminating the eight article of the Ashburton Treaty.” Bound in original cloth, VG $200 |
| 66. | Liotard,Andre-Frank & Robert Pommier TERRE ADELIE 1949-1952 Paris. (1952) Color and b/w photo plates 47, (1) pp. text plus photos. French Antarctic expedition of 1949. (95 photos by Pommier, Gros, Harders, Marret, Sapin-Jaloustre,Vallette). Original color wraps. Another copy in blue boards, wraps bound in. Each $15 |
| 67. | Lubbock, Basil. THE ARCTIC WHALERS. Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. (1955) b/w plates. xi, 483 pp. History of British whaling in the Arctic from the 1600s to the 20th century, with lists of vessels. Well illustrated. 2nd ed. VG, chipped dj. $50 See Illustration |
| 68. | MacGahan, J.A. UNDER THE NORTHERN LIGHTS. Lon. 1876. b/w plates, ills. Folding color map. viii, 339 pp. “Description of Captain Allen Young’s expedition in his yacht Pandora, 1875-76, in search of the Northwest Passage... also account of Young’s sledge trips during the M’Clintock expedition of 1857-59, the discovery of M’Clintock Channel, proving Prince of Walkes to be an island.” - Arctic Bib. 10616. VG in nicely decorated full calf binding. $750 |
| 69. | MacInnes, Tom. KLENGENBERG OF THE ARCTIC: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Lon. (1932) b/w plates. 360 pp. A Dane who lived for 33 years as a hunter and trapper in the Arctic. He dictated this account in his dying hours. Covers rather soiled, in chipped and repaired dj., but scarce, and inscribed by Vilhjalmur Stefansson’s wife, with bookplate of the Stefansson Collection, Dartmouth College. $100 |
| 70. | MacLay, Edgar Stanton. A YOUTHFUL MAN-O’-WARSMAN. Greenlawn, NY. 1910. b/w plates. 12mo. 214 pp. “From the diary of an English lad... who served in the British frigate Macedonian during her memorable action with the American frigate United States; who afterward deserted and entered the American Navy, was recaptured by the British...” VG in original nicely decorated cloth binding. $50 |
| 71. | Macmillan Co. VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON. n.p. n.d. b/w map, portrait, ills. 12mo. 36 pp. Little booklet got up by Stefansson’s publishers to celebrate his career and puff his books. Features tributes by Peary, Rasmussen and others, biographical sketch, lists of medals, explorations, books published by Macmillan and bibliography of articles. No date but last article listed is 1928. Scarce. VG in original paper wraps. $50 |
| 72. | Manuscript. ARCHIVE OF CAPTAIN LEANDER OWEN, LEGENDARY WHALING MASTER, FIRST STEAM WHALER IN THE ARCTIC. This archive consists of eight of Owen’s journals of whaling trips to the Arctic 1880-1888, with supporting documents, ephemera and photographs. The first of the whaling voyages documented here, made in 1880 aboard the auxiliary steamer Mary and Helen (specially built in Bath, Maine for this purpose), was the first whaling trip ever made into the Arctic by a steam whaler, and it opened a new - and final - boom era in the whaling industry. Owen’s second voyage in the steamer Belvedere was nearly as successful, and during this trip he rescued some of the survivors of the wrecked whaler Daniel Webster. On his third trip, aboard the steamer North Star, he rescued the crew of the USS Rodgers - formerly the Mary and Helen - which had been sent north by the government in search of the Jeanette and which burned to the waterline while wintering over in the Arctic (six pages on this rescue are in Owen’s 1881 journal). Indeed, each of these voyages has its own distinct character and adventure. In 1882 his ship was crushed in the ice. On his 1883 voyage a man was murdered. In 1884 Owen began working for the newly founded Pacific Steam Whaling Co. In 1885 he struck and killed six whales - surely a feat unsurpassed in whaling annals. In 1887 his vessel, the reliable Mary and Susan, was wrecked in an Arctic gale, and the crew was rescued by the revenue cutter Bear. In each of these detailed and personal journals, Owen makes clear what a great advantage steam power was in a world where ice floes could crush a ship overnight. He gives details of the chase and trying out, of shipboard life, of interactions with “Natives,” and of his own personal reflections. Leander C. Owen was born in Maine but moved to New Bedford in his youth. In 1848, at the age of 15, he went whaling, and followed this calling, with great success, for forty years. His whaling career was interrupted toward the end of the Civil War when he served in the Union Navy under Adm. Porter during the capture of Fort Fisher. He suffered hearing loss as a result of this battle, and spent the rest of his life seeking compensation from the government. He went back to whaling after the war and was involved in the great Arctic disasters of 1871 and 1876, playing an important part in the 1876 rescues. His adventures, and the rise of steam whaling in the Arctic are portrayed in the definitive work on the subject, WHALES, ICE AND MEN, by John Bockstoce. Although Bockstoce was aware of Owen and his importance to the history of Arctic whaling, he was unable to make full use of this invaluable archive, which is making its first appearance on the market. Eight journals containing tens of thousands of words closely describing one of the most rigorous and difficult phases of the American whale fishery, with photographs of Owen, his family, his house on Martha’s Vineyard, and his claim against the government for the deafness he suffered during the Civil War. Price on request. See Illustration |
| 73. | Manuscript. WHALING JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN GEORGE LEAVITT, 1895-1908. 6 oblong folio volumes, various paginations, about 1500 pp. total. These are photocopies of the whaling journals kept by Capt. Leavitt, and they document the last days of Arctic steam whaling, from the first wintering over on Herschel’s Island aboard the Mary D. Hume, which historian John Bockstoce calls “One of the most famous vessels in American whaling” to subsequent commands on the Thrasher, Grampus, Balaena and, finally, Narwhal in 1902-1908, when the fishery was exhausted and the price of whalebone plummeted. These logs are a marvelous resource, documenting crew, supplies, plans of ships, daily life aboard and on Herchel’s and Baillie islands, replete with adventure tragedy, murder and shipwreck. It is clear they were a major source for Bockstoce. The logs are combined into six folio volumes, each handsomely bound in calf over marbled boards with spine label. Why they were copied and bound in this manner is unknown to me, but they present a wonderful opportunity for primary source research into Arctic whaling. The lot $500 See Illustration |
| 74. | Manuscript. WHALING LETTER. WILLIAM HOWLAND TO JOHN SHEARMAN, NEW BEDFORD, 1855. “My father’s bark Tropic Bird has arrived full of oil some one deck and had to heave away part of a whale and father says that she has done better than any ship this season... The Tropic Bird brought 2 poll parrots 2 pigs and 1 nanny goat.” etc. A charming letter from a young man to a friend. Attractively framed. $200 |
| 75. | Markham, Captain Albert Hastings. THE GREAT FROZEN SEA... Lon. 1878. Double page color flag plate, duotone folding map, b/w plates and ills. xx, 440 pp. “A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the Alert During the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6.” Markham was second in command to Nares on this expedition, and provides a “detailed account of the passage through the ice... process of wintering the ship and entertaining the crew; the itineraries of sledge journeys... notes on the dogs, scurvy, frostbite and snow blindness.” Arctic Bib. 10926. With double page color plate of the Alert’s flags. In what seems to be a variant dark brown cloth binding, with gilt spine lettering and minimal decoration. Spine lightly sunned, else VG $400 See Illustration |