[ARCTIC EXPLORATION]. A group of 6 titles, including:
PARRY, William Edward, Sir. Journal of a Second Voyage for Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the Years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty’s Ships, Fury and Hecla. New York: W.E. Dean for E. Duyckinck, 1824. Engraved frontispiece. Full modern sheep. (Browning, dampstaining, spotting throughout). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. -- HAYES, I. I. The Open Polar Sea. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867. Illustrated. Original cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION. -- CONWAY, William Martin. The First Crossing of Spitsbergen. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1897. 8 color plates, 2 maps, numerous illustrations. Original two-tone cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION. -- NANSEN, Fridtjof. In Nacht und Eis. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1898. 2 volumes. Illustrated from photographs. Original cloth with mounted illustrations on upper covers (light surface rubbing, soiling). FIRST GERMAN EDITION. -- PEARY, Robert E. The North Pole. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1910. Illustrated. Original pictorial blue cloth. Second edition. -- MIKKELSEN, Ejnar. Lost in the Arctic. New York: George H. Doran, 1913. Illustrated from photographs. Original cloth stamped in silver. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
Together, 6 works in 7 volumes, all 8vo, condition generally very good.