Printed Books, Maps & Documents, The Kenn Back Polar Library, Napoleonic Manuscripts
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Lot 1 - Amundsen (Roald). "The North West Passage", 1908, & 7 others by Scandinavian explorers
Lot 2 - Amundsen (Roald). Sydpolen, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Oslo, 1912
Lot 4 - Bagshawe (Thomas Wyatt). Two Men in the Antarctic, 1st edition, 1939
Lot 6 - Brown (R. N. Rudmose). A Naturalist at the Poles, 1st edition, 1923, with the dust jacket
Lot 7 - Brown (R. N. Rudmose). The Voyage of the "Scotia", 3 copies, 1st editions, 1906
Lot 8 - Byron (John). Voyage autour du monde, 1st edition in French, 1767
Lot 9 - Davis (John K.). With the "Aurora" in the Antarctic 1911-1914, 1st edition, 1919
Lot 11 - Fanning (Edmund). Voyages round the World, 1st edition, 1833
Lot 13 - FitzRoy (Robert). The Weather Book, 2nd edition, 1863, presentation copy
Lot 14 - Franklin (John). Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, 1824, & 6 others
Lot 15 - Golden Cockerel Press. The Voyage of the Challenger, 1938, one of 300 copies only
Lot 16 - Graham (Maria). Journal of Residence in Chile, 1st edition, 1824
Lot 20 - Morrell (Benjamin). A Narrative of Four Voyages, 1st edition, 1832
Lot 21 - Murdoch (W. G. Burn). From Edinburgh to the Antarctic, 1st edition, 1894
Lot 22 - Nares (G. S.). Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea, 1st edition, 1878
Lot 24 - Nordenskjöld (Otto). Antarctica, 1st edition in English, 1905