NATHORST, ALFRED GABRIEL:

Kritiska anmärkningar om den grönländska vegetationens historia. (Critical remarks on the history of Greenland's vegetation). Stockholm 1890.

. Pp. 50. With one coloured map. Original wrappers. (Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. handlingar Band 16. Afd. III. No. 6).

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Book number: 100140

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, greenland, grönland, polar, arctic, travel, exploration, botanical, botany,

NATHORST, ALFRED GABRIEL:

Två somrar i Norra Ishafvet. Kung Karls land, Spetsbergens kringsegling spanande efter Andrée i nordöstra Grönland. Two volumes in one. Stockholm 1900.

. Large 8vo. Pp. xxxvi, 352; xiv, 414. With portrait frontispiece, 3 large folding maps in colour, numerous illustrations and some maps in the text. Publisher's blue cloth printed in gilt and silver. First edition. An account of Nathorst's scientific explorations to the Arctic Ocean in 1898 and 1899. The first expedition went to Bear Island, Svalbard and King Karl's Land. The second went to Greenland in search of Andrée's balloon expedition but without any success. However they made important geographical and geological investigations and they reached and mapped Kejsar Frans Josefs Fjord and King Oscars Fjord. Hulth 157 & 163.

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Book number: 100168

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, polar, greenland, arctic, polar, travel, travels, exploration, spitsbergen, voyage, europe, european, nordic,

NORDENSKIÖLD (NORDENSKIOLD), ADOLF ERIK:

Nordost-Passagen (The Northeast Passage). Vid Publicistklubbens fest för Nordenskiöld den 30 april 1880.

. Folio. Pp. 24. With one coloured map by C.E. Dahlman depicting Swedish Arctic expeditions between 1837-80, and many illustrations by Carl Larsson and others in the text. Old cloth, rubbed. A paper issued in connection with a celebration of Vega's homecoming.

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Book number: 99863

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Keywords: Europe, polar, travel, exploration, arctic, voyage, vega

NORDENSKIÖLD (NORDENSKIOLD), GUSTAF:

Redogörelse för den svenska expeditionen till Spetsbergen 1890. (Record of the Swedish Expedition to Spitzbergen 1890). Meddeladt den 11 mars 1891 genom A.E. Nordenskiöld. Stockholm 1892.

. Pp. 93. With one large coloured map of Spitzbergen and 6 plates, some folding. Sewn as issued. An account of the geological and zoological results of the Swedish expedition to Spitzbergen during the summer of 1890 under the command of the Swedish geolog Gustaf Nordenskiöld (son of Adolf). He was accompanied by zoologist A. Klinckowström and botanist J.A. Björling. Hulth 101. Thorén, Svenska Arktiska expeditioner under 1800-talet, pp. 187-206. (Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handlingar Band 17. Afd. II. N:o 3.).

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Book number: 99866

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Keywords: Europe, polar, arctic, spitsbergen, spitzbergen, svalbard, travel, voyage, exploration,

NORDENSKJÖLD (NORDENSKJOLD), OTTO / HETTNER, ALFRED (Editor):

Einige Züge der physischen Geographie und der Entwicklungsgeschichte Süd-Grönlands. Leipzig 1914.

. Pp. 425 - 441; 505-524; 628- 641 (text complete). With one folding plate depicting 6 illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Off-print from der Geographische Zetschrift. Band 20. Heft 8.

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Book number: 100139

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Keywords: Europe, greenland, grönland, arctic, arkisk, polar, travel, exploration, geography, geographical,

PEARSON, HENRY & FEILDEN, H.W.:

"Beyond Petsora Eastward"; Two Summer Voyages to Novaya Zemlya and the Islands of the Barents Sea; with Appendices on the Botany and Geology. London, R.H. Porter, 1899.

. Pp. xiv, 335. With a chromolithographed frontispiece: "Eggs of Little Stint" by Henrik Grönvold, 8 maps (of which two bound in at rear) and 103 photographic plates on 88 leaves. Original green cloth, upper cover with gilt decoration, top edges gilt, first quiere loosening. First edition. A detailed account of the ornithology, and to some extent of botany and geology of this region, described here as "A Russian Province of the North"; a region situated north of Norway and the Russian part of Lapland. C.A. Wood p.514. Zimmer p. 484.

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Book number: 26073

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Keywords: Europe, russia, lapland, norway, scandinavia, europe, travel, exploration, arctic, novaya zemlya

RINK, SIGNE:

Gr¿nlaendere. Kristiania (Oslo), Alb. Cammermeyer, 1886. AND: Gr¿nlaendere og Danske i Gr¿nland. Kristiania, Alb. Cammermeyer, 1887.

. Two works bound together in contemporary half calf, extremities rubbed. Bookplate. Pp. (viii), 155 + pp. (viii), 204. Text in Danish. First editions. Signe Rink (1836-1909) was born in Greenland where her father was the colonial administrator. At the age of 17 she married Hinrich Rink, a Danish geologist who became the colonial director of southern Greenland in Nuuk in 1858. She learned the language fluently and wrote novels and short stories about Inuit society and traditions, and translated Greenlandic folklore into Danish. Several of her books reflected on the colonial relationship between Inuits and Danes.

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Book number: 121359

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, greenland, grönland, inuit, eskimo, europe, european, arctic, travel, exploration, greenlander, colonial, ladytraveller, lady traveller

STADLING, JONAS JONSSON:

Genom Siberien på spaning efter Andrée. (Through Siberia searching for Andrée). Stockholm, Albert Bonnier, 1901.

. Pp. (iv), 326. With numerous illustrations after photographs taken by the author. Contemporay green cloth, original front wrapper withbound. Jonas Stadling (1847-1935) was a Swedish preacher and journalist. He participated in Andrée's expedition in 1897, and the year after he travelled to the northern part of Siberia to, if possible, collect information about the missing expedition. He made interesting botanical discoveries but found no trace of Andrée and his team. First edition. Hulth 135.

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Book number: 100211

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, polar, arctic, travel, exploration, andrée, russia, russian, siberia, siberian,

SWEDISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1901-03] / KOEHLER, R.:

[Astéries et ophiures. Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedtion ... under the Direction of Dr. Otto Nordenskjöld. / Astéries et ophiures recueillies par l'expédition antarctique suédoise (1901-03). Edited by T. Odhner. Vol. I, no. 1. Stockholm 1923.

. 4to. Pp. 145. With 15 fullpage plates after photographs by Koehler.

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Book number: 100143

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, sydpolen, south pole, antarktis, antarctic, polar, travel, exploration, swedish, zoology, zoological

TRYBOM, FILIP:

Trollsländor (Odonater), insamlade under Svenska Expeditionen till Jensei 1876. [Odonator collected during the Swedish expedtiion to the Yenisei 1876]. Stockholm 1899.

. Pp. 21. With one plate. Original wrappers. (Bihang till K. Svenska Vet. Akad:s Handl. Bd 15, afd. iv, no. 4). Hulth 642.

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Book number: 100128

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, polar, arctic, travel, exploration, expedition, sweden, swedish, dragonfly, zoology, zoological,