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Melville (George Wallace . In the Lena Delta. A Narrative of the Search for Lieut.-Commander DeLong and his Companions. Followed by an Account of the Greely Relief Expedition and a Proposed Method of Reaching the North Pole, 1st UK edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1885, 16 plates, 5 folding maps, bookplate (Rossall Library), original blue-grey cloth, spine toned, 8vo, together with: Peary (Robert E.). The North Pole, 1st UK edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910, numerous plates (halftones and photogravures; all present as called for), folding map, spotting to endpapers and edges, later memorial inscription to front free endpaper, original blue-green cloth gilt, slightly marked, large 8vo, Brown (R. N. Rudmose). Spitsbergen. An Account of Exploration, Hunting, the Mineral Riches and Future Potentialities of an Arctic Archipelago, 1st edition, London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1920, 16 halftone plates, folding map, spotting to edges, original dark blue pictorial cloth, 8vo, ibid. A Naturalist at the Poles. The Life, Work and Voyages of Dr. W. S. Bruce the Polar Explorer, 1st edition, US issue, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1924, 24 halftone plates including frontispiece, 2 folding maps, illustrations and map in text, original dark blue pictorial cloth, 8vo, and 10 others, polar travel, original cloth (not collated), including W. G. Burn Murdoch, Modern Whaling and Bear-Hunting, 1st edition, 1917; Markham, The Great Frozen Sea, 3rd edition, 1878; Orleans, Hunters and Hunting in the Arctic, 1st edition in English, 1911, and similar (Qty: 14) Arctic Bibliography 11239 (Melville, first edition, Boston, 1885), 13230 (Peary), 2331 (Brown, Spitsbergen), 2334 (Brown, A Naturalist, first edition, London, 1923).