KOOLEMANS BEYNEN, L.R., A. de BRUIJNE, a.o. - L.R. Koolemans Beynen. De reis der Pandora naar de Noordpoolgewesten, in den zomer van 1875 & 1876. - De verslagen omtrent den tocht met de Willem Barents naar en in de IJszee, in den zomer van 1878 & 1879. Uitgebracht aan het Comite van Uitvoering door A. de Bruijne, L.R. Koolemans Beijnen, H.M. Speelman, C.P. Sluyter en P.J. Hijmans van Anrooy.

Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, Utrecht, J.L. Beijers, 1880. 4 volumes in 1. 4to. Original decorated cloth (some stains). With 2 folding coloured maps of the track of the Pandora, 2 folding coloured maps by A. Braakensiek of the Barents Sea, 2 plates depicting profiles, 5 tables, and 7 plates. 30; 37; 84; 40 pp. Bijbladen Tijdschrift Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, Noordpool-expeditie. - Laurens Rijnhard Koolemans-Beijnen accompanied the Franklin search expedition under Allen William Young in the Pandora. The crew examined relics of Franklin's expedition at Beechey Island, but when halted by impenetrable ice in the Franklin Strait, returned to England. He made a second voyage with Young in the Pandora the follwing year, but on this occasion the vessel was diverted to Smith Sound to support George Nares' expedition The Willem Barents cruised the Greenland Sea to Jan Mayen and northwest West Spitsbergen, thence southward to Bear Island, and eastward across Barents Sea in north-south traverses as far as Novaya Zemlya. In 1879 the ship's course ran from Amsterdam northward in the Greenland Sea, thence eastward in north-south traverses of the Barents Sea as far as Novaya Zambla, thence north and westward to a point off Franz Josef Land. - A fine copy. Tiele 1111; Arctic Bibliography 2393- 2394; Howgego III, p.298-299..

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