WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR 5 MAY 2018

Polar Exploration THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 5 MAY 2018 AT 11AM 223 Charcot, Dr John, Walsh, Philip (translator). The Voyage of the ‘Why Not?’: The ‘Porquois Pas?’ in the Antarctic. the Journal of the Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908- 1910. Hodder and Stoughton, 1911, first English edition, 4to. viii, 315pp. folding frontis. with tissue guard plus 42 plates, original aquamarine cloth gilt with embossed gilt illustration of ship to upper board and a white penguin to spine. Estimate €300-€500 approx (£260-£440 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 223 224 17th century two accounts of Arctic voyages. James, Captain Thomas. Strange and Dangerous Voyage In his intended Discovery of the North-West Passage Into The South Sea: In the Years 1631 and 1632. Wherein the Miseries Indured, Both Going, Wintering, Returning, And the Rarities Observed, both Philosophical and Mathematical, Are Related at Large.Rebound extract from Churchill’s Voyages, London, c.1704; 4to, 479-544pp; together with Two Journals the First Kept by Seven Sailers In the Isle of St Maurice in Greenland in the Years 1633 and 1634. Who Pass’d The Winter, And All Died In The Said Island. The Second Kept by Seven Other Sailers, Who in the Years 1633 and 1634 Winter’d at Spitzbergen; With an Account of Their Adventures and Sufferings, From the Bears andWhales, Insupportable Cold and Storms &c. Done Out of the Low-Dutch. Rebound extract from Churchill’s Voyages, London, c.1704; Folio, 413-430pp. Estimate €200-€300 approx (£170-£260 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 224