WALLACE, Dillon
8vo, 21cm, fifth edition, 339p., frontis & 16 illustrations, rear folding map, original dark green cloth, gilt block spine and cover titles, with blind stamped illustrations stamped on the spine and upper cover, in fine Conditio. (Ar). No preface and no publisher's ads., indicate first or early issue. A.B. 19091. Account for general readers of a trip projected by Hubbard, a journalist, to explore from Lake Melville by river (thought to be Northwest River) to Lake Michikamau, thence across country to the George River, and downstream to Un-gava Bay. Describes the travels of the party (Hubbard, the author and George Olsen, a halfbreed Cree) north and west of Grand Lake during July-Oct. 1903, the ascent of Susan River, hardship, efforts to return, death of Hubbard. Hubbard's predicted trip was subsequently carried out by his widow A Woman's Way through unknown Labrador, 1908 also by Wallace. The Long Labrador Trail, 1907.
HANBURY, David T.
8vo, 22.5cm. The First American Edition, (English sheets), xxxii,319p., with 61 plates and illustrations from photographs, (including 5 coloured plates from paintings), 2 rear folding maps, original wine cloth, gilt titles, t.e.g., some slight wear, a very good to sound copy. (Ar). A.B. 6550. Narrative of the author's travels in the Barren Lands; east from Great Slave Lake to Baker Lake; to Depot Island on Hudson's Bay and into the country north of Chesterfield Inlet; westward along the Arctic coast to the Coppermine River; then upstream to the Dease River and finally the return to Great Bear Lake. The work contains a great deal of information on the Inhuits with whom the author spent some twenty months, 1901-1902. This book has been described as "The Classic Barren Grounds Narrative"
KANE, Elisha Kent
8vo. 23cm, in 2 volumes, 464 & 467pp., with 2 folding maps, 20 steel-engraved plates & c.280 wood engraved plates and illustrations, in the original elaborately blind pictorial and decorated light brown cloth, gilt spine titles, plates foxed, expertly restored, a very good set. (Ar). A.B. 8373. Contains an account of the organization and course of the expedition based on "passages of Kane's journal of interest to the general reader": the voyage to Smith Sound, the wintering at Rensselaer Harbor on the north-west coast of Greenland, the making of observations, sledge journeys, explorations, surveys, etc.; notes upon the Inhuits, flora and fauna, Humboldt and other glaciers, ice, etc.; the abandonment of the Advance and the party's return to Upernavik in small boats. Robert Peary apparently read this account repeatedly, to gain inspiration for his own efforts.
PRICHARD, H. Hesketh
tall8vo. 25.5cm, the first edition, xv,254p. plus frontis and 96 plates and illustrations, map, complete with half-title, in the original full crimson linen, gilt titles on the spine and upper cover, gilt pictorial decoration, spine slightly faded (titles clear) else a fine copy. (Ar). O'Dea 1518. A.B. 13942. Narrative of a journey during the summer of 1910, by the author and G.M. Gathorne-Hardy, penetrating west of Nain along the Fraser River, across the plateau to George River and return, a route previously unexplored. Includes descriptions of the country traversed, hunting, weather, and travel conditions, chapters on the Moravian mission, Inhuits, Inhuit dogs, white inhabitants, Aboriginals, and caribou. Also published in New York, 1911.
BUTLER, Captain W.F.
18cm, 14th edition. x,[1],386p. folding frontis map and 6 plates, original red cloth with black stamped decorations, gilt titles, spine lightly faded, a near fine copy. (wst). Peel 341. Waterston p136. The Irish-born soldier travelled in Manitoba from the States to spy on Riel. He talked with Riel, then struck back along the Winnipeg to Rainy River to report to General Wolseley at Rat Portage. "The second half of the book concerns a mission to the Saskatchewan Valley to commission Justices of the Peace and set up law enforcement. His prairie panoramas, descriptions of the ravages of smallpox among the Aboriginals, and laughing references to 'pecmmican flavored with skunk" enchanted a wide readership". (Waterston).
12mo. 19.5cm, new edition, revised and illustrated, xxiii[1],387p., with 14 engraved plates (inc. 2 maps), in the original green cloth, gilt spine titles, small gilt pictorial decoration on the upper cover, Beekman Pool's bookplate, a near fine copy. (Ar). A.B. 6790. Contains a brief outline of the Second Grinnell Expedition, which the author accompanied as surgeon; and, in detail, his account of a four-months journey, in the autumn of 1854, of a party from the expeditions winter quarters, to the regions of Rensselaer Harbor, towards Upernavik, and return; their boating and sledging along Smith Sound, and the west coast of Greenland. Includes comments on the physical features, botany, the hunting and the Inhuits of the region.
24cm, xxiii 402p. rear folding map, limited to 550 copies, this being #36, crested red cloth, t.e.g., spine slightly faded, a very good sound copy. (Ar). Charles W. Jefferys's copy with his signature on the free fly. - McLean served the Hudson's Bay Company in the Ottawa valley, the Northwest, on the Pacific coast, Hudson Bay and in the Labrador between 1821 and 1845. He was the first white man to traverse the entire Labrador Peninsula, and in so doing he discovered the Grand Falls of the Northwest River. His narrative "one of the classics of wilderness travel", is also an authentic record of the H.B.C. activities after its union with the Northwest Company.
8vo, 21.5cm, first edition, xiv,367p., with 26 plates and illustrations, 1 figure, 5 maps (3 folding), index, green cloth, dark blue label panel, gilt titles, a bit faded, a very good copy. (Ar).
8vo. 22cm, first edition, xii,[1],485, [2]p., ads., with 105 plates and illustrations from photographs, large rear folding pocket map, index, original colour decorated dark grey cloth, gilt spine and upper cover titles, t.e.g., some slight fade spots on the upper cover, expertly restored, a very good copy. (Ar). Tourville 2130. Wickersham 2955. Smith 4524. Ricks p122. A.B. 7125. The author traveled in the summer of 1898 to Dawson via the Yukon River, and returned via the Skagway and Stika. She describes the river valley and its people; the Gold Rush activities in Dawson, Skagway Pass.
8vo. 22cm, [14],426p., with 66 plates and illustrations from photographs by the author, 3 maps (1 double-page), appendices, index, rebound in blue buckram, gilt spine titles, fine thus. (Ar). K-S, Oct 1918. The First Edition. - A.B. 10673. Narrative of the Crocker land expedition 1913- 1917, under D.B. MacMillan, for exploration and mapping of Crocker Land and other unexplored islands between Axel Heiberg and Parry Islands.
8vo. 23cm, 127 & 146 pp., title vignettes, 2 frontis, 1 folding plate, appendices (list of Society members), original green cloth, bookplate removed from the front paste down endpaper, gilt spine title ("Pomology of Maine), very good to fine sound copy (scn). ~ Introductory Notes identify Secretary to be George B. Sawyer of Wiscasset, Maine. A folding plate lists the type of Pear and Apple Trees found in Penobscot.