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
127 SARYTSCHEW, Gawrila (1763-1831)

Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the North-East of Siberia, The Frozen Ocean, and the North-East Sea...

London 1806, 1807 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 270.00
128 SAUER, Martin (1785-1806)

An Account of a Geographical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia...

London 1802 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 480.00
129 SCHLEY, Winfield S. (1839-1911)

Two Titles on the Rescue of the Greely Expediton, including: Report of Winfield S. Schley, Commander U. S. Navy, Commanding Greely Relief Expedition of 1884

Washington, D. C. 1887 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 300.00
130 [MCADOO, William (1863-1941)]

[SCHUETZE, William Henry (1853-1902), subject]. William Henry Schuetze...

[Chicago] 1903 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
131 SCORESBY, Rev. William (1789-1857)

The Franklin Expedition: or Considerations for the Discovery and Relief of Our Absent Adventurers in the Arctic Regions

London 1850 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 840.00
132 SCORESBY, Rev. William (1789-1857)

Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery; Including Researches and Discoveries on the Eastern Coast of West Greenland, Made in the Summer of 1822, in the Ship Baffin of Liverpool

Edinburgh 1823 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 180.00
133 SCORESBY, Rev. William (1789-1857)

An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery

Edinburgh 1820 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 660.00
134 SCOTT, Captain Robert F. (1868-1912)

The Voyage of the "Discovery"

London [1905] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 450.00
135 SHACKLETON, Ernest (1874-1922), BERNACCHI, Louis (1876-1942), SCOTT, Robert F. (1868-1912), et al.

The South Polar Times...

London 1907-14 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,600.00
136 SHACKLETON, Ernest (1874-1922)

South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917...

London 1919 USD 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,400.00
137 SHACKLETON, Ernest (1874-1922)

21 Meilen vom Sudpol. Die Geschichte der britischen Sudpol-Expedition 1907/09

Berlin [1910] USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
138 [SMITH, W. Campbell, editor]

[SHACKLETON, Ernest (1874-1922), association.] Report on the Geological Collections made during the Voyage of the "Quest" On the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition to the South Atlantic & Weddell Sea in 1921-1922...

London 1930 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
139 [SHIRASE, Nobu (1861-1946)]

[POSTCARDS]. [Nankyoku Tanken Rikujo Taiin (Zenretsu Chuou Shirase Taichou)] "The Antarctic Expedition on Shore (Nobu Shirase in front row center.)"

1910-1912 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
140 [SHIRASE, Nobu (1861-1946)]

[POSTCARDS]. Japanese Antarctic Expedition: Actual scenes of Antarctic Circle of Lieutenant Shirase. 8 scarce original postcards depicting the Japanese Antarctic Expedition 1910-12

1910-12 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
141 [SHIRASE, Nobu (1861-1946), association]

Tokyo Asahi Shinbun Hennenshi 22Kan-Meiji43nen (Showa 30nen 6gatsu Shanaiyou) [in English: The Chronicles of Tokyo Asahi Newspaper, Volume No. 22 - 1910]

Tokyo 1910 - 1910 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 3,360.00
142 [SHIRASE, Nobu (1861-1946), association]

Nankyoku Tanken Hikouki Sugoroku [Antarctic Expedition Board Game] by unknown designer

Tokyo 1911 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,600.00
143 [SHIRASE, Nobu (1861-1946), association]

TADA, Keiichi. Nankyoku Tanken Jitsuroku [The True Record of the Antarctic Expedition]

Tokyo 1958 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,200.00
144 OKUMA, Shigenobu (1838-1922)

[SHIRASE, Nobu (1861-1946), association]. Wagakuni Kuzen no Sokyo: Nankyoku Tanken Shuppatsu Kinen [Our Grand Project: Commemorating the Departure of the Antarctic Expedition Tokyo, Society for the Support of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition]

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,920.00
145 [SHIRASE, Nobu (1861-1946), association]

JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION SUPPORT COMMITTEE (1910-1912)

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 240.00
146 SHIRASE, Nobu (1861-1946) and SHIMADA, Tatsumi

Sangaku [The Mountain - The Journal of the Japanese Alpine Club]...

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
147 SHIRASE, Nobu (1861-1946)

Tanken Monogatari: Nankyoku to Hokkyoku [Exploration to the North Pole and South Pole]

Tokyo 1944 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 720.00
148 SHIRASE, Kyoko

[SHIRASE, Nobu (1861-1946), association]. Yukihara e Yuku: Watashi no Shirase Nobu [To the Fields of Snow]

Akita 1986 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
149 [SHIRASE, Nobu (1861-1946), association]

Pair of Signed Modern First Editions of Reference Books...

Santa Monica, CA 2010 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 300.00
150 [SHIRASE, Nobu (1861-1946), association]

BASCHIN, Michaelsen and O. "Die Japanische Su"dpol-Expedition Unter Shirase" "The Japanese South Pole Expedition Under Shirase"

Berlin 1911-12 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
151 YASUNASUKE, Yamabe

[SHIRASE, Nobu (1861-1946), association]. Ainu Monogatari [in English: The Ainu Story]

Tokyo 1913 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
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