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McCormick (Robert). Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1884, pp. xx, 432; xii, 412, [16], with 66 plates and maps (including 3 portraits, 5 linen-backed folding panoramas, 5 maps of which 1 folding and not listed ['Track Chart of the East Coast of the Wellington Channel'], and 29 other plates, these all tinted lithographs; and 24 wood-engraved plates), half-title and 16 pp. publisher's advertisements to volume 2, ex-Shoreditch Public Libraries with ink-stamps (cancelled), 20th-century quarter morocco library binding, 8vo (24.5 x 15.5 cm), together with: Amedeo (Luigi). On the "Polar Star" in the Arctic Sea, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1903, 16 engraved plates, 5 lithographic maps (of which 2 linen-backed and folding, in end-pocket), 2 folding panoramas (one repaired), publisher's blind stamp ('With the publisher's compliments') to volume 1 half-title, ex-St Pancras Public Libraries with perforation stamps to title-pages and other markings, 20th-century quarter morocco library binding, 4to (23.8 x 18.8 cm), Kane (Elisha Kent). Arctic Explorations: the Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin 1853, '54, '55, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856, engraved vignette-titles, frontispieces, 2 maps (1 folding), folding isothermal chart, 18 engraved plates, spotting, original cloth, wear to headcaps, adhesive labels to spines, 8vo, and 17 others, polar exploration (Heroic Age), not collated, mainly ex-library, including John Brown The North-West Passage, 2nd edition, 1860; Alexander Armstrong, A Personal Narrative of the Discovery of the North-West Passage, 1857; Frederick G. Jackson, A Thousand Days in the Arctic, 2 volumes, 1899; R. E. Peary, Nearest the Pole, London, 1907; Roald Amundsen, "The North West Passage", 2 volumes London, 1908; and similar (Qty: 25) Arctic Bibliography 10582 (McCormick), 8373 (Kane).