Potter and Potter Auctions: Celestial and Terrestrial Exploration, 178, Chicago

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Auction Date
April 18, 2025 - April 18, 2025
Page Size: 348 items in 14 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 BELLOT, Lieutenant Joseph Rene (1826-1853)

Memoirs of Lieutenant Joseph Rene Bellot...

London 1855 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 660.00
27

[BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. Arctic Bibliography

[Washington, D. C.] 1953-63 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 240.00
28

[BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. Group of 3 First or Limited Editions of Polar Bibliographies, including: ROSOVE, Michael H. Antarctica, 1772-1922 Freestanding Publications Through 1999...

Santa Monica, CA 2001 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 180.00
29 BORCHGREVINK, Carsten Egeberg (1864--1934)

Naermest Sydpolen Aaret 1900...

Copenhagen and Oslo 1905 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 240.00
30 BORDEN, Lieutenant Commander John (1884-1961)

Log of The Auxiliary Schooner Yacht Northern Light...

Chicago 1929 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 360.00
31 BOYSON, V. F.

The Falkland Islands

Oxford 1924 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 150.00
32 BRAINARD, General David L. (1856-1946)

The Outpost of the Lost. An Arctic Adventure...

Indianapolis [1929] USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 210.00
33 BRAINARD, David L. (1856-1946)

Six Came Back

Indianapolis and New York [1940] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 240.00
34 BRAINARD, David L. (1856-1946)

Pair of First Editions, One Inscribed, including: Six Came Back. Edited by Bessie Rowland James...

Indianapolis and New York [1940] USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 300.00
35 BROWN, John (1797-1861)

The North-West Passage, and the Plans for the Search for Sir John Franklin. A Review...

London 1858 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,600.00
36 BYRD, Richard E. (1888-1957)

Alone

New York 1938 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 210.00
37 BYRD, Richard E. (1888-1957)

Alone

New York 1938 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 420.00
38 BYRD, Richard E. (1888-1957)

Skyward

New York 1928 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 480.00
39 STEFANSSON, Vilhjalmur (1879-1962)

The Problem of Meighen Island. Intended as the Third Chapter but Suppressed in the publication of Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic...

New York 1939 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 210.00
40 CHARCOT, Dr. Jean (1825-1893)

The Voyage of the "Why Not?" in the Antarctic...

London [1911] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 720.00
41 CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley (1886-1959)

The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913

London [1922] USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,320.00
42 COLLINSON, Captain Richard (1811-1883)

Journal of H. M. S. Enterprise, on the Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin's Ships by Behring Strait. 1850-55

London 1889 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 540.00
43 CONWAY, William Martin, Sir (1856--1937)

The First Crossing of Spitsbergen

London 1897 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
44 COOK, Dr. Frederick A. (1865-1940)

My Attainment of the Pole. Being the Record of the Expedition that First Reached the Boreal Center 1907-1909...

New York 1911 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 780.00
45 COOK, Dr. Frederick A. (1865-1940)

To the Top of the Continent. Discovery, Exploration and Adventure in Sub-Arctic Alaska

New York 1908 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 360.00
46 COOK, Captain James (1728-1779)

A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure, In the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775...

London 1777 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,440.00
47 DE LA ROQUETTE, M [Jean Bernard Marie Alexandre Dezos] (1784-1868)

Notice Biographique sur l'Amiral Sir John Franklin...

[Paris] [ca. 1857] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 450.00
48 [DONNETT, James L., editor]

Arctic Miscellanies. A Souvenir of the Late Polar Search...

London 1852 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 570.00
49 ELLIS, Henry (1721-1806)

A Voyage to Hudson's-Bay, by the Dobbs Galley and California, In the Years 1746 and 1747, For Discovering a North West Passage...

London 1748 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 390.00
50 FISHER, Alexander (d. 1838)

A Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper, in the Years 1819 & 1820...

London 1821 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 210.00
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