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Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, F. T. [Lord Dufferin]
A yacht voyage. Letters from high latitudes; being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen, by Lord Dufferin, Governor General of the Dominion of Canada.
Toronto, Adam, Stevensen, 1873. 8vo (18.1 x 12.0 cm). 281 pp., engraved frontispiece, tissue-guarded portrait of the author, nine engraved plates including one of a skeleton in a coffin captioned: "Et ego in arctis", several wood engravings in the text. Original decorated cloth with bevelled edges and gilt title on the spine, and gilt title and large vignette on the front board.
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Holtedahl, O. (ed.)
Report of the scientific results of the Norwegian Expedition to Novaya Zemblya 1921.
Kristiania [Oslo], Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania (The Society of Arts and Sciences of Kristiania), 1922-1930. 45 parts in three. Large 8vo (27.2 x 18.0 cm). Over 1500 pp.; 160 plates and maps. Indexes to the three volumes. Uniform near contemporary full buckram with gilt title on the spines.
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Thorgilsson, A. (attr.)
Christendoms Saga Hliodande um þad hvornenn Christen Tru kom fyrst a Island, at forlage þess haloflega Herra. Olafs Tryggvason ar Noregs Kongs.
Skalhollti, Hendrik Kruse, 1688. 8vo (18.0 x 14.7 cm). Title page, frontispiece on verso; [ii] (dedication leaf), 26, [ii] (index) pp. frontispiece portrait of King Olaf; several woodcut initials, and two endpieces. Contemporary (?) limp vellum. All edges red.
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