Washington, D.C: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1867. First edition. Sumner's important speech in support of the ratification oof the treaty with Russia which ceded what would become Alaska to the U.S. Sometimes found with a large folding map by Lindenkpohl, though it was not issued with the speech..... Read More about Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the Cession of Russian America to the United...

Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1889. First edition. Read More about Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1884

West Brighton and n.p: [1931]. Halpern wrote to Bartlett regarding a previous invitation to visit the “Morrissey” saying that he is ready to go and when is Bartlett ready for him. Bartlett replied that he could come the following Saturday. Bartlett, the noted Newfoundland-born Arctic explorer, who was with the..... Read More about Two autograph notes, first signed in margin of another letter as “R. A. Bartlett” and the...

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1938. First edition, #57 of 225 copies on one hundred per cent rag paper, signed by the author. With photo of Byrd signing books laid in. Read More about Alone

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. First Trade edition. Read More about Discovery. The Story of the Second Byrd Expedition. Introduction bty Claude A. Swanson, Sec. of Navy

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. Read More about Little America. Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic. The Flight to the South Pole

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First trade edition. Signed on half-title by Byrd. Read More about Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic the Flight to the South Pole

Washington, D.C., Boston, and New York: May 20, 1941 - May 8, 1944. "I cannot feel that he is gone ... " When Richard Byrd was just twelve years old in 1900, Adam ("Kit") Carson, a friend and associate of his father's in the family's law firm, invited the young..... Read More about 5 Typed Letters Signed ("Dick") to the wife of his mentor and old friend, Adam C....

Brooklyn, NY: Oct. 4, 1896. Cook Congratulates Operti, 1896. A charming letter between two Arctic veterans. Frederick Cook, founding member of both the Arctic Club and the Explorer's Club, and future rival claimant to Robert Peary as discoverer of the North Pole, writes to his old friend Albert Operti. Both..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed ("Frederick A. Cook") to the Arctic artist Albert Operti,...

[Otsego Hall, Cooperstown: 1848]. Published: London, 29 March 1849 by Bentley (vol. III, pp. 195-6). Two and a half substantial paragraphs, beginning, “I’ll not answer for the craft, though that’s her blue peter …” and continuing to: “… as almost to persuade the expectant legatees that their visit was premature..... Read More about Autograph manuscript page: The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers

[London]: c.1872. A rare survival. This image appears in William Bradford's fabled book of photographs Arctic Regions. It was taken by either Dunmore or Critcherson, the two professional photographers from Boston who accompanied Bradford on his 1869 expedition to the Arctic on the steamship Panther. It was probably taken at..... Read More about Esquimaux Winter Hut and Its Occupants. The Entrance is seen on the Left

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1906. First edition. Author's presentation copy. Inscribed on the half-title: "To F.L. Root with remembrance of the days at the Realty Trust and best wishes Anthony Fiala April 29/[19]38". The Ziegler Polar Expedition - or Fiala expedition - was a failed attempt to reach..... Read More about Fighting the Polar Ice

London: John Murray, 1829. IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. Read More about Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in 1819-20-21-22 : with a Brief Account of the Second...