Polar exploration.-

A collection of 55 volumes, including Presentation Copies: Nansen (Fridtjof) Farthest North, Presentation Copy, First US Edition, 2 vol., inscribed to preliminary, 4 folding maps, coloured plates, large damp stain affecting covers and most pages, tears, original cloth gilt, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1897; de Long (George, W.) The Voyage of the Jeannette. The Ship and Ice Journals, 2 vol., First British Edition, numerous illustrations, some staining, pictorial red cloth, worn, Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1883; Greely (Adolphus W.) Three Years of Arctic Service. An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-1884 and the Attainment of the Farthest North, 2 vol., Presentation Copy, First Edition, inscribed to the frontispiece verso, large damp staining affecting covers and pages, pictorial cloth, Scribner's Sons, New York, 1886, also with an inscribed first edition of The Polar Regions in the Twentieth Century, 1928; v.s., with others similar, including on mountaineering, and a mixed collection of 34 Hakluyt Society volumes (55)