Books on Arctic Exploration (3). Kane, Elisha Kent. Arctic Explorations:The second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. Illustrated By Upwards of Three Hundred Engravings From Sketches By the Author.Philadelphia, Childs & Peterson [And] Boston, Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1856. Two Volumes. First Edition, the 'Boston' issue.2 portrait frontis., 2 extra steel-engraved titlepages with vignettes, 18 fine steel-engraved plates, many wood-engraved illustrations in text, 3 maps (1 folding), folding chart, 464,467pp., 8vo., publisher's grey-green blindstamped cloth, gilt titling on spine, some negligable traces of rubbing at tips and spine ends. Internally, some very occasional trivial signs of use, but no foxing as often. a very good set indeed; Hovgaard, A. Nordenskiold's Voyage round Asia and Europe.A Popular Account of the North-East Passage of the 'Vega', 1878-80. Translated from the Danish by H.L.Braeksted.London, Sampson, Low,[&c.], 1882. First edition in English.47 wood-engraved illustrations, many full-page with a sepia tint, 3 coloured maps (2 folding), liv,(2),293,(3)pp., inner hinges cracked but very firm, 8vo., publisher's dark olive pictorial cloth slightly marked, spine sunned to brown. a very good copy of a very uncommon book.A remarkable voyage from Stockholm up and across the arctic sea north of Siberia, through the Bering Strait, and back via Japan, China, Singapore, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. All but the last few pages describe the explorations and adventures of the Siberian part of the voyage; Monck, John. An Account of a Most Dangerous Voyage Perform'd By the Famous Captain John Monck in the Years 1619 and 1620...to Hudson's Straits, in order to discover a Passage on that side, betwixt Greenland and America to the West-Indies. with a Description of the Old and New Greenland, for the better Elucidation of the said Treatise. Translated from the High-Dutch Original, printed at Frankford upon the Maine, 1650.4 engraved plates of whales and whaling, map of Greenland, pages numbered (4)545-569, printed double column, red edges, tall 4to.(315 x 200 mm). Recent quarter calf and grey papered boards. a couple of signs of use, 2 plates with a marginal short closed tear not touching image, but generally a good copy.Extracted complete from volume one of an edition of 'A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed From Original Manuscripts ; Others Now First Published in English ; with a General Preface, Giving An Account of the Progress of Navigation From Its First Beginning.' [A.& J. Churchill] London, 1704-1732 and later. It is not clear which edition this is as the volume was defective. Each of the narratives the work contains is complete in itself with a separate title page.