Printed Books, Maps & Documents, The Kenn Back Polar Library, Napoleonic Manuscripts

Amundsen (Roald). "The North West Passage", being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Gjöa" 1903-1907, 2 volumes, 1st US edition, N...

Amundsen (Roald). Sydpolen. Den Norske Sydpolsfærd med Fram 1910-1912, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book-form, Kristiania [Oslo]: Jacob Dybwad, 1912,...

Back (Eric Kenneth Prentice, 'Kenn', 1942–). 'A Record of the Climate and Inhabitants of Adelaide Island, Antarctica', 1963-6, manuscript log in b...

Bagshawe (Thomas Wyatt). Two Men in the Antarctic. An Expedition to Graham Land 1920-1922. With a Foreword by Frank Debenham, 1st edition, Cambrid...

Bellingshausen (Fabian Gottlied Thaddeus von). The Voyage of Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas. Translated from the Russian. Edited by ...

Brown (R. N. Rudmose). A Naturalist at the Poles. The Life, Work and Voyages of Dr. W. S. Bruce, the Polar Explorer. With Five Chapters by W. G. B...

[Brown, R. N. Rudmose, & others]. The Voyage of the "Scotia". Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration in Antarctic Seas, 1st edition, Edinburg...

Byron (John). Voyage autour du monde, fait en 1764 et 1765, sur le vaisseau de guerre anglois le Dauphin; dans lequel on trouve une description ex...

Davis (John King). With the "Aurora" in the Antarctic 1911-1914, 1st edition, London: Andrew Melrose, Ltd, [1919], half-title, all halftone photog...

Dundonald (Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of). Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru, and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Dominat...

Fanning (Edmund). Voyages round the World; with Selected Sketches of Voyages to the South Seas, North and South Pacific Oceans, China, etc., perfo...

FitzRoy (Robert). Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, describing thei...

FitzRoy (Robert). The Weather Book: A Manual of Practical Meteorology, 2nd edition, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863, xiv [...

Franklin (Sir John). Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: John Murra...

Golden Cockerel Press. The Voyage of the Challenger. A Personal Narrative of the Historic Circumnavigation of the Globe in the Years 1872-1876, 2 ...

Graham (Maria). Journal of a Residence in Chile, during the Year 1822. And a Voyage from Chile to Brazil in 1823, 1st edition, London: Longman, Hu...

Malaspina (Alessandro). Viaje politico-cientifico alrededor del mundo por las corbetas Descubierta y Atrevida al mando de los capitanes de navio D...

Matthews (L. Harrison). South Georgia, the British Empire's Subantarctic Outpost, a Synopsis of the History of the Island, 1st edition, Bristol: J...

Mawson (Douglas). The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, 2 volumes, 1st US edition, Philad...

Morrell (Benjamin). A Narrative of Four Voyages, to the South Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, Chinese Sea, Ethiopic and Southern Atlantic Ocea...

Murdoch (W. G. Burn). From Edinburgh to the Antarctic. An Artist's Notes and Sketches during the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93. With a Ch...

Nares (Sir George S.). Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875-6 in H.M. Ships 'Alert' and 'Discovery', 2 volumes, 1st edition, London:...

Nodal (Bartolomé Garcia & Gonzalo de). Relacion del viage que por orden de su magestad, y acuerdo de el real consejo de Indias, hicieron los capit...

Nordenskjöld (Nils Otto Gustav, & Johann Gunnar Andersson). Antarctica, or Two Years amongst the Ice of the South Pole, 1st edition in English, Lo...

Ovalle (Alonso de). An Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile ... Printed at Rome by Francisco Cavallo, 1649 ... Translated out of Spanish in...

Priestley (Raymond E.). Antarctic Adventure. Scott's Northern Party, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1914, all photographic plates as called...

Priestley (Raymond E.). The Psychology of Exploration ... Part I. – Antarctic [offprinted from Psyche, Vol. II, No. 1, July 1921], pp. 18-28, Prie...

Ross (Sir James Clark). A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the Years 1839-43, 2 volumes, 1st edition...

Sclater (Philip Lutley). Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-76 ... Zoology – Vol. II. [Part...

Scott (Robert F.) The Voyage of the 'Discovery', 2 volumes, 1st edition, 2nd impression, London: Smith, Elder, 1905, photogravure frontispieces, f...

Shackleton (Ernest H.) The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: ...

Shackleton (Ernest H.). Antarktis' Hjärta. Berättelsen om den Engelska Sydpolsexpeditionen 1907-1909. Öfversättning från författarens manuskript a...

Shackleton (Ernest H.). Mon Expédition au Sud Polaire 1914-1917. Traduction de M.-L. Landel, 1st edition in French of South, Tours: Alfred Mame et...

Shackleton (Ernest H.). South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917, 1st edition, 2nd impression, London: William Heinemann, 1919, ...

Snow (William Parker). A Two Years' Cruise off Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, Patagonia, and in the River Plate: A Narrative of Life in t...

Taylor (Griffith). With Scott: The Silver Lining, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1916, all plates as called for, 2 folding ma...

Webster (William Henry Bayley). Narrative of a Voyage to the Southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop Chanticle...

Weddell (James). A Voyage towards the South Pole, performed in the Years 1822-24. Containing n Examination of the Antarctic Sea, to the Seventy-Fo...

Wild (Frank). Shackleton's Last Voyage, 2nd edition, London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1923, half-title, colour frontispiece, 50 halftone photogra...

Tanner (Vaino). Outlines of the Geography, Life and Customs of Newfoundland-Labrador, 2 volumes, 1st UK edition, Cambridge: University Press, 1947...

Christensen (Lars). Such is the Antarctic, 1st edition in English, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935, plates, bookplate of Kenn Back, original cl...

Goebel (Julius). The Struggle for the Falkland Islands. A Study in Legal and Diplomatic History, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 19...

MacDonald (Frederick C.). Bishop Sterling of the Falkland Islands, 1st edition, London, Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd., 1929, plates, bookplate of Ken...

Kenn Back Library. Large collection of journals and paperbacks, mainly Antarctica- or South America-related, 20th century, including numerous issu...

[Arabic printing]. Small group of Arabic imprints, 19th century, comprising: Muhibb al-Din Muhammad bin Shams al-Din Muhammad Ibn al-'Attar. 'Umda...

Arundell (Francis Vyvyan Jago). Discoveries in Asia Minor; including a Description of the Ruins of Several Ancient Cities, and especially Antioch ...

* Band (George C., 1929-2011). Collection of mountaineering books from the library of 1953 British Mount Everest expedition member George C. Band,...

Bartlett (W. H., William Purser, & others, illustrators). Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, etc. Illustrated. In a Series of Views drawn from Natu...

Bowen (Emanuel). A Complete System of Geography, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: William Innys [and others], [1744]-1747, xi [1] xxviii 1013 [3], ...

Cannon (Richard). Historical Record of the Eighty-Eight Regiment of Foot. Or, Connaught Rangers, 1st edition, London: William Clowes, 1838, [8] vi...

Colebrook (Robert H.). Twelve Views of Places in the Kingdom of Mysore, the Country of Tippoo Sultan, from Drawings taken on the Spot, London: [no...

Conway (Martin). Aconcagua and Tierra del Fuego. A Book of Climbing, Travel and Exploration, 1st edition, London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 19...

Exquemelin (Alexandre Olivier). The History of the Bucaniers of America; from the First Original down to this Time; written in several Languages; ...

Faulkner (Sir Arthur Brooke). A Treatise on the Plague, designed to prove it Contagious, from Facts, collected during the Author's Residence in Ma...

Hakluyt (Richard). The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation, 10 volumes, London: J.M. Dent, 1927-28, map...

Hare (Augustus John Cuthbert, 1834-1903). English Travel Writer and Biographer. A lengthy autograph manuscript containing notes for Walks in Rome ...

Heylyn (Peter). Cosmographie, in Four Books. Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Province...

Holland (Trevenen J., & Henry M. Hozier). Record of the Expedition to Abyssinia, compiled by Order of the Secretary of State for War, 2 volumes, 1...

[India]. [Commemorative photograph album of the 22nd (Residency) Field Battery, Royal Artillery], Lucknow: I. P. Press, [1931], 5 linen-hinged sti...

* India. Group of letters and documents, 19th-20th century, including: 1) Northbrook (Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of, 1826-1904). Letter signed as vic...