Author: CAMPEN, Samuel Richard van.
Title: Dutch Arctic expeditions and route: being a survey of the North polar question, including extended considerations for the renewal of Dutch Arctic research.
Description: Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen & Zoon, 1876.Contemporary half calf, spine lettered in gilt. With title-vignette and folding coloured map of the North Pole by J. Letch & Co. XXXVII, 263 pp.First edition; all published. - Including chapters on: Holland's enterprise and duty, Government expeditions, Polar problems, The Arctic revival, The Gulf stream route, the early Dutch whalers, etc. and in the appendix a chronological table of Arctic voyages North-East and North-West of Greenland (860-1876). - A fine copy..Cat. NHSM I, pp.309-310 (later ed. only).
Keywords: Arctic Pole whaling
Title: Dutch Arctic expeditions and route: being a survey of the North polar question, including extended considerations for the renewal of Dutch Arctic research.
Description: Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen & Zoon, 1876.Contemporary half calf, spine lettered in gilt. With title-vignette and folding coloured map of the North Pole by J. Letch & Co. XXXVII, 263 pp.First edition; all published. - Including chapters on: Holland's enterprise and duty, Government expeditions, Polar problems, The Arctic revival, The Gulf stream route, the early Dutch whalers, etc. and in the appendix a chronological table of Arctic voyages North-East and North-West of Greenland (860-1876). - A fine copy..Cat. NHSM I, pp.309-310 (later ed. only).
Keywords: Arctic Pole whaling
Price: EUR 412.50 = appr. US$ 448.32 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 35672
- Book number: 35672