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POLAR EXPLORATION] Group of four volumes. Includes MIKKELSEN, EJNAR. Lost in the Arctic. Being the Story of the 'Alabama' Expedition, 1909-1912. London: Heinemann, 1913. Original cloth.; TREVOR-BATTYE, AUBYN. Ice-Bound on Kolguev, a chapter in the exploration of Arctic Europe to which is added a record of the natural history of the island. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1895. Third edition. Original cloth; BYRD, RICHARD Commander. Into the Home of the Blizzard. New York: The New York Times Company, 1928. Wrappers; And CHARCOT, JEAN-BAPTISTE. Le Pourquoi-Pas? dans l'Antarctique. Paris: Ernest Flammarion, [1910]. First edition. Publisher's leather backed marbled boards (wrappers not bound-in). The last work, by Charcot, is arguably the most significant in this group, and it is surprisingly scarce in the original edition. It contains important photographs and maps (three folding). Taurus Collection 64; Books on Ice 96. C