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Auction Date
March 26, 2024 - March 26, 2024
Page Size: 271 items in 11 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
102 Christensen, Lars.

My Last Expedition to the Antarctic 1936-1937.

1937 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 152.40
103 Cook, Frederick A.

To the Top of the Continent: Discovery, Exploration and Adventure in Sub-arctic Alaska. The First Ascent of Mt. McKinley, 1903-1906.

New York, 1908 USD 120.00 - 225.00 USD 165.10
104 Cox, Ross.

Adventures on the Columbia River, Including the Narrative of a Residence of Six Years on the Western Side of the Rocky Mountains, among Various Tribes of Indians Hitherto Unknown: Together with a Journey Across the American Continent.

London, 1831 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 698.50
105 Denham, Dixon.

Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824. Extending Across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou to Sackatoo the Capital of the Fellatah Empire DENH

1826 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 285.75
106 Drake, Edward Cavendish.

A New Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels.

London 1768 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 476.25
107 Ellis, Henry.

Voyage a la Baye de Hudson, Fait en 1746 & 1747.

Leiden, 1750 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 285.75
108 Emory, William Hemsley.

Notes of a Military Reconnaissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers.

Washington 1848 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 241.30
109 Emory, William H.

Report on the U. S. Mexican Boundary Survey (Vol. I - Part I and II.)

Washington, 1857 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 762.00
110 Fellowes, William Dorset.

A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817.

London, 1820 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 165.10
111 Gilliss, Lt. J. M.

U. S. Naval Astronomical Expedition Volumes I, II, III and VI.

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 349.25
112 Gregg, Josiah.

Commerce of the Prairies: or the Journal of a Santa Fe Trader, during eight expeditions across the Great Western Prairies, and a residence of nearly nine years in Northern Mexico.

New York 1845 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 349.25
113 Hall, Charles Francis.

Arctic Researches and Life Among the Esquimaux; Being the Narrative of an Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin in the Years 1860, 1861, and 1862.

New York, 1866 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 139.70
114 Hawks, Francis L.

Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to China Seas and Japan.

Washington, 1856 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 698.50
115 Keppell, Captain George.

Personal Narrative of a Journey from India to England, by Bussorah, Bagdad, the Ruins of Babylon, Curdistan, the Court of Persia, the Western Shore of the Caspian Sea, Astrakhan, Nishney Novogorod, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, in the Year 1824.

London 1827 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 285.75
116 Keppel, Sir Henry.

The Expedition to Borneo of HMS Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: with Extracts from the Journal of James Brooke of Sarawak.

London 1846 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 139.70
117 Livingstone, David.

Missionary travels and researches in South Africa; including a sketch of sixteen years residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the continent, down the River Zambesi, to the e

London 1857 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 177.80
118 Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi.

On the "Polar Star" in the Arctic Sea.

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 127.00
119 Marmontel, Jean Francois.

The Incas: or, The Destruction of the Empire of Peru.

London 1777 USD 120.00 - 225.00 USD 177.80
120 Mawson, Sir Douglas.

The Home of the Blizzard; Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. William Heinemann, London, First U. S. Edition from the British sheets.

Philadelphia and London 1915 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 203.20
121 Mills, Enos A.

The Spell of the Rockies.

Boston/New York, 1911 USD 120.00 - 225.00 USD 76.20
122 Nansen, Fridtjof.

Fram Over Polhavet 1893-1896 . Med et tillaeg af Otto Sverdrup.

Kristiania [i.e. Oslo], 1897 USD 120.00 - 225.00 Not Sold
123 O'Reilly, Bernard.

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 1818 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 381.00
124 Parry, William Edward.

Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-20 in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Gripe.

London 1821 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 285.75
125 Peary, Robert E.

United States Coast Survey . 1875 Peary's copy * Signature, as a student.

1875 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
126 Selfridge, Thomas Oliver.

Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Practicability of a Ship-Canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by the way of the Isthmus of Darien.

Washington, 1874 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 127.00
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