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1. Roald Amundsen's "The North West passage": Gjöa expedition, 1903-1907: North West Passage: "Gjöa" expedition, 1903-1907: being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship "Gjöa" 1903-1907

Creator/Contributor:
Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928, creator
Hansen, Godfred, 1876-1937
Tower, Joseph Tuckerman, 1897-1931, former owner.
Hansen, Godfred, 1876-1937, contributor.
Archibald Constable & Co, publisher.
Harrison and Sons (Printers), printer.
Creation Date:
1908
Subjects:
Amundsen, Roald--Travels--Northwest Passage
Amundsen, Roald--Travel--Northwest Passage
Gjøa (Ship)
Explorers
Northwest Passage
Northwest Passage--Discovery and exploration--Norwegian
Northwest Passage--Description and travel

2. A journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the years 1808-1809: in which is included, some account of the proceedings of His Majesty's mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart. K.C., to the court of the king of Persia

Creator/Contributor:
Morier, James Justinian, 1780?-1849, creator
Creation Date:
1812
Subjects:
Iran--Description and travel
Armenia--Description and travel
Turkey--Description and travel
Middle East--Description and travel
Iran--Antiquities
Iran--Politics and government

3. A voyage of discovery and research in the southern and Antarctic regions, during the years 1839-43: Discovery and research in the southern and Antarctic regions

Creator/Contributor:
Ross, James Clark, Sir, 1800-1862, creator
Tower, Joseph Tuckerman, 1897-1931, former owner.
Enderby, Charles, 1798?-1876, former owner.
Creation Date:
1847
Subjects:
Erebus (Ship)
Terror (Ship)
Scientific expeditions--Antarctica
Antarctica--Discovery and exploration
1839--1843

4. From Edinburgh to the Antarctic: an artist's notes and sketches during the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93

Creator/Contributor:
Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon), 1862-1939, creator
Bruce, William S. (William Speirs), 1867-1921
Creation Date:
1894
Subjects:
Whaling--Antarctica
Natural history--Antarctica
Antarctica--Discovery and exploration--Scottish
Antarctica

5. The natural history of Aleppo: containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood : together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases, particularly of the plague

Creator/Contributor:
Russell, Alexander, 1715?-1768, creator
Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770, dln
Russell, Patrick, 1727-1805
Creation Date:
1794
Subjects:
Epidemiology--Early works to 1800
Ethnology--Syria--Early works to 1800
Medicine, Arab
Natural history--Syria--Aleppo--Early works to 1800
Plague--Early works to 1800
Plague--Syria--Early works to 1800
Natural history--Syria--Aleppo--Pre-Linnean works
Aleppo (Syria)
Aleppo (Syria)--Early works to 1800
Natural History
History, 18th Century
Plague
Epidemiology
Anthropology, Cultural
Medicine, Arabic
Plague--epidemiology
Syria

6. Travels in China: containing descriptions, observations, and comparisons, made and collected in the course of a short residence at the imperial palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a subsequent journey through the country from Pekin to Canton : in which it is attempted to appreciate the rank that this extraordinary empire may be considered to hold in the scale of civilized nations

Creator/Contributor:
Barrow, John, Sir, 1764-1848, creator
Creation Date:
1804
Subjects:
China--Description and travel

7. A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro: with an account of the native tribes, and observations on the climate, geology, and natural history of the Amazon valley

Creator/Contributor:
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913, creator
Creation Date:
1853
Subjects:
Indians of South America--Brazil
Natural history--Amazon River Valley
Indians of South America--Amazon River Valley
Indians of South America--Amazon River Valley--Languages
Amazon River Valley--Description and travel
Brazil--Description and travel
Amazon River Valley
Indians, South American
Travel
Travel--Brazil--19th Cent
Brazil

8. The time machine: an invention

Creator/Contributor:
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946, creator
Heinemann, William, 1863-1920, publisher.
Richard Clay and Sons, printer.
Creation Date:
1895
Subjects:
Time travel--Fiction
Science fiction, English

9. Narrative of a voyage round the world: performed in Her Majesty's ship Sulphur, during the years 1836-1842, including details of the naval operations in China, from Dec. 1840, to Nov. 1841

Creator/Contributor:
Belcher, Edward, Sir, 1799-1877, creator
Hinds, Richard Brinsley.
Great Britain, Admiralty.
Creation Date:
1843
Subjects:
Sulphur (Ship)
Voyages around the world
Phytogeography
China--History--Opium War, 1840-1842

10. Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America Archaeology: Biologia Centrali-Americana: Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America: Archaeology

Creator/Contributor:
Maudslay, Alfred Percival, 1850-1931, creator
Goodman, J. T.
Godman, Frederick Du Cane, 1834-1919
Salvin, Osbert, 1835-1898
Griggs, William, 1835-1911
Hunter, Ada.
Greve, W., lithographer.
Purkiss, W., lithographer.
Richardson, Francis B., former owner.
Autotype Company
Boussod, Valadon & Cie
Goupil & Cie
Hanhart (Lithographers)
Creation Date:
1889-1902
Subjects:
Mayas--Antiquities
Mayan languages--Writing
Maya calendar
Inscriptions, Mayan
Central America--Antiquities
Mexico--Antiquities
Indians, North American

11. First on the Antarctic continent: being an account of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898-1900

Creator/Contributor:
Borchgrevink, C. E. (Carsten Egeberg), 1864-1934, creator
Tower, Joseph Tuckerman, 1897-1931, former owner.
George Newnes, Limited, publisher.
William Clowes and Sons, printer.
Creation Date:
1901
Subjects:
British Antarctic Expedition (1898-1900)
Antarctica--Discovery and exploration--British

12. Travels of a naturalist: a record of adventures, discoveries, history and customs of Americans and Indians : habits and descriptions of animals, chiefly made in North America, California, Mexico, Central America, Columbia, Chili, etc., during the last forty-two years

Creator/Contributor:
Boucard, Adolphe, 1839-1905, creator
Creation Date:
1894
Subjects:
Natural history--America
America--Description and travel

13. A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean: in which the coast of Asia, from the lat. of 35⁰ north to the lat. of 52⁰ north, the island of the Insu (commonly known under the name of the land of Jesso,) the north, south, and east coasts of Japan, the Lieuchieux and the adjacent isles, as well as the coast of Corea, have been examined and surveyed : performed in His Majesty's sloop Providence and her tender, in the years 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798

Creator/Contributor:
Broughton, William Robert, 1762-1821, creator
Neele, Samuel John, 1758-1824, engraver.
Creation Date:
1804
Subjects:
Providence (Sloop : Great Britain)
Scientific expeditions
Japan--Description and travel
Ryukyu Islands--Description and travel
Korea--Description and travel

14. The possibility of approaching the North Pole asserted

Creator/Contributor:
Barrington, Daines, 1727-1800, creator
Beaufoy, Mark, 1764-1827
Tower, Joseph Tuckerman, 1897-1931, former owner.
Creation Date:
1818
Subjects:
North Pole
Northwest Passage

15. Across the pampas and the Andes

Creator/Contributor:
Crawford, Robert, 1831-1914, creator
Roosevelt, Belle, 1892-1968, former owner.
Roosevelt, Kermit, 1889-1943, former owner.
Creation Date:
1884
Subjects:
Railroads--Argentina
Argentina--Description and travel
Andes--Description and travel

16. Danish Arctic expeditions, 1605 to 1620: Danish expeditions to Greenland in 1605, 1606, and 1607: Expedition of Captain Jens Munk to Hudson's Bay in search of a North-West passage in 1619-20: in two books : book I. The Danish expeditions to Greenland in 1605, 1606, and 1607 : to which is added Captain James Hall's voyage to Greenland in 1612 ; book II. The expedition of Captain Jens Munk to Hudson's Bay in search of a north-west passage in 1619-20: Collection of voyages and travels: Hakluytus posthumus: Navigatio Septentrionalis

Creator/Contributor:
Gosch, C. C. A. (Christian Carl August), 1832-1913
Hall, James, -1612
Gatonbe, John.
Baffin, William, -1622
Christy, Miller, 1861-
Tower, Joseph Tuckerman, 1897-1931, former owner.
Eames, Wilberforce, 1855-1937, former owner.
Gosch, C. C. A. (Christian Carl August), 1832-1913, editor.
Baffin, William, 1584-1622
Munk, Jens, 1579-1628
Creation Date:
1897
Subjects:
Cummingham, John
Lindenow, Godske
Hall, James
Cunningham, John
Munk, Jens
Buss Island (Legendary place)
Greenland--Discovery and exploration
Greenland--Discovery and exploration--Danish
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--Danish
Northwest Passage--Discovery and exploration--Danish
Hudson Bay
Greenland--Maps
Northwest Passage

17. The German Arctic expedition of 1869-70: and narrative of the wreck of the "Hansa" in the ice

Creator/Contributor:
Koldewey, Karl, 1837-1908, creator
Mercier, Louis, pastor of the French Church, London
Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892, ed.
Tower, Joseph Tuckerman, 1897-1931, former owner.
Mercier, Lewis Page, 1820-1875, translator.
Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892, editor.
Creation Date:
1874
Subjects:
Koldewey, Karl
Hansa (Ship)
Germania (Ship)
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--German

18. The threshold of the unknown region

Creator/Contributor:
Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir, 1830-1916, creator
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, publisher.
Creation Date:
1876
Subjects:
Nares, George S. (George Strong)
Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876.
Alert (Ship)
Discovery (Ship)
British Arctic Expedition (1875-1876)
Whaling--Arctic regions
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--History
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--Chronology

19. With Nansen in the North: a record of the Fram Expedition in 1893-96

Creator/Contributor:
Johansen, Hjalmar, 1867-1913, creator
Brækstad, H. L. (Hans Lien), 1845-1915
Tower, Joseph Tuckerman, 1897-1931, former owner.
Creation Date:
1899
Subjects:
Nansen, Fridtjof--Travel--Arctic regions
Johansen, Hjalmar--Travel--Arctic regions
Fram (Ship)
"Fram" Expedition (1st : 1893-1896)
"Fram" Expedition" (1893-1896) (1st : 1893-1896)
"Fram" Expedition (1893-1896)
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--Norwegian

20. The Malay Archipelago: the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise : a narrative of travel with studies of man and nature

Creator/Contributor:
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913, creator
Creation Date:
1869
Subjects:
Natural history--Malay Archipelago
Ethnology--Malay Archipelago
Malay Archipelago--Description and travel
Natural History
Ethnology

21. The journal of a voyage undertaken by order of His present Majesty for making discoveries toward the North Pole, by the Hon. Commodore Phipps, and Captain Lutwidge, in His Majesty's sloops Race Horse and Carcase : to which is prefixed, an account of the several voyages undertaken for the discovery of a north-east passage to China and Japan

Creator/Contributor:
Mulgrave, Constantine John Phipps, Baron, 1744-1792
Lutwidge, Skiffington.
Tower, Joseph Tuckerman, 1897-1931, former owner.
Creation Date:
1774
Subjects:
Race Horse (Sloop)
Carcase (Sloop)
Northeast Passage
Arctic regions

22. On the periodical star [alpha] Herculis: with remarks tending to establish the rotatory motion of the stars on their axes : to which is added a second catalogue of the comparative brightness of the stars

Creator/Contributor:
Herschel, William, 1738-1822, creator
Creation Date:
1796]
1796
Subjects:
Multiple stars

23. Manual of the natural history, geology and physics of Greenland and the neighbouring regions: Instructions suggested by the Arctic Committee of the Royal Society for the use of the expedition

Creator/Contributor:
Jones, T. Rupert (Thomas Rupert), 1819-1911
Tower, Joseph Tuckerman, 1897-1931, former owner.
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942, former owner.
Great Britain, Admiralty.
Royal Society, Arctic Committee.
Creation Date:
1875
Subjects:
Scientific expeditions--Arctic regions--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Natural history--Arctic regions--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Natural history--Arctic regions
Greenland

24. Ichthyology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus & Terror: Part VII, Fishes: Fishes: under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S

Creator/Contributor:
Richardson, John, Sir, 1787-1865, creator
Ross, James Clark, Sir, 1800-1862
Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789-1850, lithographer.
Creation Date:
1848
Subjects:
Erebus (Ship)
Terror (Ship)
Fishes
Ichthyology

25. The last voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross ... to the Arctic regions for the discovery of a north west passage: performed in the years 1829-30-31-32 and 33 : to which is prefixed an abridgement of the former voyages of Captns. Ross, Parry & other celebrated navigators to the northern latitudes : compiled from authentic information and original documents transmitted by an officer attached to the last expedition ; illustrated by engravings from drawings taken on the spot

Creator/Contributor:
Huish, Robert, 1777-1850, creator
Tower, Joseph Tuckerman, 1897-1931, former owner.
Creation Date:
1835
Subjects:
Ross, John
Victory (Ship)
Northwest Passage
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration

26. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle: under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836

Creator/Contributor:
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882, creator
Colburn, Henry, -1855, pbl.
Whiting, Charles, active 1832-1879, prt.
Creation Date:
1840
Subjects:
Beagle Expedition (1831-1836)
Natural history--South America
Geology--South America
Voyages around the world--History--19th century
South America--Description and travel
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