Lyon (George). A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to reach Repulse Bay, 1st ed, 1825

Lyon (George Francis). A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to reach Repulse Bay, through Sir Thomas Rowe's "Welcome" in his Majesty's Ship Griper, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1825, folding map, 7 engraved plates, ink ownership inscription of Irene Bevan to front free endpaper verso, spotted, library bookplate of Newtown Church library to front pastedown, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with: The Private Journal of Captain G. F. Lyon, of H. M. S. Hecla, during the recent voyage of discovery under Captain Parry, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1824, engraved frontispiece, 6 engraved plates, folding map, a few light spots, contemporary half calf gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with Nansen (Fridtjof). "Farthest North", bein the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship Fram 1893-96 and of fifteen months' sleigh journey, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: George Newnes, 1898, frontispieces, black and white illustrations throughout, near-contemporary black straight-grain morocco gilt, rubbed, some faint staining to boards, with 4 other leatherbound polar works, including J. A. MacGahan's Under the Northern Lights (1876) & the popular edition of Charles Hall's Life with the Esquimaux (1865) (Quantity: 8)