Greenland Bernard O'REILLY. Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the north-west passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a voyage to Davis's Strait during the summer of 1817. London: Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1818. 4° (285 x 220mm). 2pp. publisher's advertisements. 18 plates (12 aquatints, 6 engravings), 3 engraved maps, 2 folding, uncut. (Old dampstain to title and first few leaves, one plate loosely inserted.) 20th-century half tanned seal(?) leather, titled in gilt on black morocco lettering-piece on spine (some scuffing to extremities). Provenance : Peter Freuchen (inscription dated 1925). First edition. Abbey Travel I,633; BM(NH) III,p.1476; Sabin 57576; Staton & Tremaine 1125. [ With :] George William MANBY (1765-1854). Journal of a visit to Greenland, in the year 1821. London: G. & W.B.Whittaker, 1823. 8° (225 x 138mm). 2pp. publisher's advertisements. Folding hand-coloured lithographic map, 19 lithographic plates, 5 folding, uncut. (Plates spotted.) 20th-century calf-backed marbled boards. Second edition. The first edition was published in 1822. BM(NH) III,p.1230; Sabin 44195. Hans Povelson EGEDE (1686-1758). A Description of Greenland... with a new map of Greenland... Translated from the Danish. London: C.Hitch, S.Austen and J.Jackson, 1745. 8° (200 x 125mm). 11 engraved plates, folding engraved map (Map neatly repaired.) 20th-century half calf. Provenance : Devon & Exeter Institution (stamp on verso of title and final leaf); William Herbert Hobbs (bookplate). First edition in English. Cf.BM(NH) II,p.513 (1818 edition); together with a collection of 24 works in 35 volumes on Greenland and its environs ([ANONYMOUS]. Grönlands historiske mindesmaerker , Copenhagen, 1838, 3 vols., 8°; Arthur R.THOMPSON. Shipwrecked in Greenland , Boston, 1905, 8°; George William MANBY. Reise nach Gönland in Jahr 1821 , Leipzig, 1823, sm.8°; C.J.W.SIMPSON. North Ice The British North Greenland Expedition , London, 1957, 8°; Knud RASMUSSEN. Neue Menschen Ein Jahr bei den Nachbarn des Nordpols , Bern, 1907, 8°; Knud RASMUSSEN. Greenland by the Polar Sea , London, 1921, 4°; Knud RASMUSSEN. Gronland langs polhavet , Copenhagen & Oslo, 1919, 4°; Hans EGEDE. A Description of Greenland , London, 1818, 8°; David CRANZ. Historie von Gröland, Barby, 1770, 3 vols., 8°; Louis BOBE. Hans Egede Colonizer and missionary of Greenland, Copenhagen, 1952, 4°; Rockwell KENT Greenland Journal , New York, 1962, 8°; J.P.KOCH. Gennem den Hvide Orken Den danske Forskningsrejse tvaersover Nordgronland 1912-13, Copenhagen, 1913, 8°; G.HOLM and others. Meddelelser om Gronland... Den ostgronlandske Expedition udfort i Aarene 1883-85 , Copenhagen, 1889-1888, 2 vols., 8°; A.R.CARSTENSEN. Two Summers in Greenland , London, 1890, 8°; AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY [publishers]. 2 works on Greenland and 1 on northernmost Labrador, Washington, 1935-1948, 3 works in 6 vols, 8°; Donald Baxter MACMILLAN. Etah and beyond or life within twelve degrees of the Pole , Boston & New York, 1927, 8°; Acton FRIIS. Im Grönlandeis mit Mylius-Erichsen die Danmark-Expedition 1906-1908 , Leipzig, 1910, 8°; Erich von DRYGALSKI. Grönland-Expedition der gesellschaft f erdkunde zu Berlin 1891-1893 , Berlin, 1897, 2 vols, 4°). (38)
Greenland Bernard O'REILLY. Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the north-west passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a voyage to Davis's Strait during the summer of 1817. London: Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1818. 4° (285 x 220mm). 2pp. publisher's advertisements. 18 plates (12 aquatints, 6 engravings), 3 engraved maps, 2 folding, uncut. (Old dampstain to title and first few leaves, one plate loosely inserted.) 20th-century half tanned seal(?) leather, titled in gilt on black morocco lettering-piece on spine (some scuffing to extremities). Provenance : Peter Freuchen (inscription dated 1925). First edition. Abbey Travel I,633; BM(NH) III,p.1476; Sabin 57576; Staton & Tremaine 1125. [ With :] George William MANBY (1765-1854). Journal of a visit to Greenland, in the year 1821. London: G. & W.B.Whittaker, 1823. 8° (225 x 138mm). 2pp. publisher's advertisements. Folding hand-coloured lithographic map, 19 lithographic plates, 5 folding, uncut. (Plates spotted.) 20th-century calf-backed marbled boards. Second edition. The first edition was published in 1822. BM(NH) III,p.1230; Sabin 44195. Hans Povelson EGEDE (1686-1758). A Description of Greenland... with a new map of Greenland... Translated from the Danish. London: C.Hitch, S.Austen and J.Jackson, 1745. 8° (200 x 125mm). 11 engraved plates, folding engraved map (Map neatly repaired.) 20th-century half calf. Provenance : Devon & Exeter Institution (stamp on verso of title and final leaf); William Herbert Hobbs (bookplate). First edition in English. Cf.BM(NH) II,p.513 (1818 edition); together with a collection of 24 works in 35 volumes on Greenland and its environs ([ANONYMOUS]. Grönlands historiske mindesmaerker , Copenhagen, 1838, 3 vols., 8°; Arthur R.THOMPSON. Shipwrecked in Greenland , Boston, 1905, 8°; George William MANBY. Reise nach Gönland in Jahr 1821 , Leipzig, 1823, sm.8°; C.J.W.SIMPSON. North Ice The British North Greenland Expedition , London, 1957, 8°; Knud RASMUSSEN. Neue Menschen Ein Jahr bei den Nachbarn des Nordpols , Bern, 1907, 8°; Knud RASMUSSEN. Greenland by the Polar Sea , London, 1921, 4°; Knud RASMUSSEN. Gronland langs polhavet , Copenhagen & Oslo, 1919, 4°; Hans EGEDE. A Description of Greenland , London, 1818, 8°; David CRANZ. Historie von Gröland, Barby, 1770, 3 vols., 8°; Louis BOBE. Hans Egede Colonizer and missionary of Greenland, Copenhagen, 1952, 4°; Rockwell KENT Greenland Journal , New York, 1962, 8°; J.P.KOCH. Gennem den Hvide Orken Den danske Forskningsrejse tvaersover Nordgronland 1912-13, Copenhagen, 1913, 8°; G.HOLM and others. Meddelelser om Gronland... Den ostgronlandske Expedition udfort i Aarene 1883-85 , Copenhagen, 1889-1888, 2 vols., 8°; A.R.CARSTENSEN. Two Summers in Greenland , London, 1890, 8°; AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY [publishers]. 2 works on Greenland and 1 on northernmost Labrador, Washington, 1935-1948, 3 works in 6 vols, 8°; Donald Baxter MACMILLAN. Etah and beyond or life within twelve degrees of the Pole , Boston & New York, 1927, 8°; Acton FRIIS. Im Grönlandeis mit Mylius-Erichsen die Danmark-Expedition 1906-1908 , Leipzig, 1910, 8°; Erich von DRYGALSKI. Grönland-Expedition der gesellschaft f erdkunde zu Berlin 1891-1893 , Berlin, 1897, 2 vols, 4°). (38)
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