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Zapadno-Sibirskaia ravnina [The West Siberian Plain, in Russian]

By: Arkhipov, S. A. (Editor)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Moskva [Moscow], "Nauka": 1970

Seller ID: 6265

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Blue cloth lettered in silver, text in Russian, illustrated with maps, diagrams (some fold-outs). From series Istoriia razvitiia rel'efa Sibiri i Dal'nego Vostoka [History of Development of Reliefs].; 7" x 10-1/2"; 279 pp; Corners lightly rubbed/bumped, text paper toned, sound binding, unmarked.
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REINDEER, DOGS, AND SNOW-SHOES: A Journal Of Siberian Travel And Explorations made in the years 1865, 1866, and 1867.

By: Bush, Richard J.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1871

Seller ID: 6256

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Violet pebbled cloth, decorations in black, gilt lettering, brown endpapers, guarded frontispiece and additional illustrations (some full page), folding map at rear. ; 5-3/4" x 8-1/4"; 529 pp; Spine rubbed and discolored, spot of staining to spine, a number of discolored spots on rear board, worn at spine ends, fraying at corners, sound hinges (must have been repaired?), prior owner bookplate inside front cover, text block generally clean and free of foxing, map with splits and loss of about 2 square inches along top.
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Greenlanders, Whales, and Whaling: Sustainability and Self-Determination in the Arctic

By: Caulfield, Richard A.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hanover and London, Dartmouth College / University Press of New England: (1997)

Seller ID: 6244

ISBN: 0-87451-810-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Publishers blue cloth, silver spine lettering, includes lengthy list of Illustrations and Tables. Illustrated blue dust jacket with white lettering. First printing with full number line.; 6-1/4" x 9-1/4"; xiv, 203 pp; Little wear to book. Jacket with very slight edgewear and a shallow dent to rear panel, in clear protective cover.
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[Eskimos] THE PEOPLE of the TWILIGHT

By: Jenness, Diamond; Claude Johnson (Drawings)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1928

Seller ID: 6245

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Publishers orange cloth, gilt decorations and lettering to front cover and spine, endpapers are Sketch Map of Coronation Gulf and Surrounding Region, illustrated with photographs.; 6" x 8-3/4"; xii, 247 pp; Mild wear to boards, spine darkened and with small thinned area (as where something was removed), endpapers are on thick paper and have separated somewhat at the binding, hinges remain sound, endpapers caused toning to adjacent pages, text block evenly toned, clean and unmarked.
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The LANDS OF SILENCE: A History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration

By: Markham, Sir Clements R.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Cambridge, At The University Press: 1921

Seller ID: 6491

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Publishers blue cloth, silver illustration of ship to front cover and lettering to spine, guarded frontispiece, well-illustrated with a lengthy list of maps and illustrations - in b/w on inserted plates. Heavy, extra for international shipping. ; 7" x 10"; xii, 539 pp; Covers rubbed, quite bumped at lower right, front hinge a tad loose, rear hinge cracked, frontispeice foxed, pages generally clean and free of foxing, small stain inside rear cover with impact limited to rear free endpaper.
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Through Siberia: The Land of the Future

By: Nansen, Fridtjof

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1914

Seller ID: 6263

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Publishers black cloth, gilt emblem of Imperial Russia to front, white lettering to front, gilt spine lettering, guarded frontispiece portrait of the author, lists six pages of illustrations including three fold-out maps. Heavy, international may be extra. ; 7-1/2" x 9-3/4"; xvi, 478 pp; Boards lightly rubbed, spine gilt dulled and some creasing to spine cloth, solid hinges, clean and unmarked, scattered light foxing to some pages - moreso at ends and generally limited to some page edges.
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The Arctic Diary of Russell Williams Porter

By: Porter, Russell Williams; Herman Friis (Edited by)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia: 1976

Seller ID: 6492

ISBN: 0-8139-0649-0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, well-illustrated with full-page reproductions of drawings and watercolors (some color) from Porter's manuscripts. White dust jacket reproduces one of Porter's drawings on front cover with photograph of Porter "Sketching on the arctic ice". ; 9-1/2" x 10-1/4"; xii, 172 pp; Little wear to covers, page edges have some light soiling, a few corner creases to last few pages. Jacket lightly edgeworn, lightly soiled, sunned at spine, in clear protective cover.
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Arctic Ordeal: The Journal of John Richardson, Surgeon-Naturalist with Franklin, 1820-1822

By: Richardson, John; C. Stuart Houston (Edited by); H. Albert Hochbaum (Illustrated by)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Montreal & Kingston - London - Buffalo, McGill-Queen's University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 6505

ISBN: 0-7735-1223-3

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Stiff light blue wraps, perfect bound, cover drawingh and lettering in dark blue, illustrated. This copy inscribed by the editor on the title page. ; 6" x 9"; xxxiii, 349 pp; Signed by Editor; The slightest of wear at corners.
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The RESCUE OF GREELY

By: Schley, W. S. (Commander, U.S.N.) and Professor J. R. Soley, U.S.N.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1885

Seller ID: 6270

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Illustrated from the photographs and maps of the relief expedition. Publishers blue cloth, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, guarded frontispiece, additional illustrations on plates, three folding maps at rear.; 5-3/4" x 8-1/4"; 277 pp; Ex-library (withdrawn), spine marking excised, library bookplate, blindstramp to title page, pocket at rear. Spine with lean, rubbed along edges, a few marginal spots, one creased corner, generally clean and unmarked, maps remain in sound condition..
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