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1. A brief narrative of an unsuccessful attempt to reach Repulse Bay : through Sir Thomas Rowe's "Welcome," in His Majesty's Ship Griper, in the year MDCCCXXIV / by Captain G.F. Lyon, R.N. ; with a chart and engravings.

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Creator:: Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795–1832
Date:: MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:: xvi, 198, [2] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A summer search for Sir John Franklin : with a peep into the polar basin / by Commander E.A. Inglefield, R.N. ; with short notices by Professor Dickie, on the botany, and by Dr. Sutherland, on the meteorology and geology ; and a new chart of the Arctic Sea.

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Creator:: Inglefield, E. A. (Edward Augustus), 1820–1894
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: [2], xxi, [1], 232 p., [5] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific ocean, and round the world : in which the coast of north-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed, undertaken by His Majesty's command, principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery sloop of war, and armed tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver.

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Creator:: Vancouver, George, 1757–1798
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 31 x 24 cm (4to) + 1 atlas ([16] leaves of plates (6 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 46 cm (folio))
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's straits, for the purpose of exploring a North-East passage : undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of His Highness the Chancellor of the Empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Navy, Otto von Kotzebue : illustrated with numerous plates and maps : in three volumes.

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Creator:: Kotzebue, Otto von, 1787–1846
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A voyage to Hudson's-Bay : by the Dobbs galley and California, in the years 1746 and 1747, for discovering a north west passage; with an accurate survey of the coast, and a short natural history of the country : together with a fair view of the facts and arguments from which the future finding of such a passage is rendered probable / by Henry Ellis, gent., agent for the proprietors in the said expedition ; to which is prefixed, an historical account of the attempts hitherto made for the finding a passage that way to the East-Indies ; illustrated with proper cuts, and a new and correct chart of Hudson's-Bay, with the countries adjacent.

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Creator:: Ellis, Henry, 1721–1806
Date:: MDCCXLVII [1748]
Physical Description:: xxviii, 336 [i.e. 344] pages, [9] leaves of plates, (4 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1819-20, in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper, under the orders of William Edward Parry : with an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations.

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Creator:: Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790–1855
Date:: MDCCCXXI [1821]
Physical Description:: [8], xxix, [3], 310, [2], clxxix, [3] pages, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The private journal of Captain G.F. Lyon, of H.M.S. Hecla, during the recent voyage of discovery under Captain Parry : with a map and plates.

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Creator:: Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795–1832
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: xiii, [1] 468 pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations, folded map ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North America, to the frozen and Pacific oceans ; in the years 1789 and 1793 : with a preliminary account of the rise, progress, and present state of the fur trade of that country ; illustrated with maps / by Alexander Mackenzie, Esq.

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Creator:: Mackenzie, Alexander, 1764–1820
Date:: MDCCCI [1801]
Physical Description:: [4], viii, [2], cxxxii, 412, [2] pages, [4] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : portrait, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West coast of America : to which are prefixed, an introductory narrative of a voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the ship Nootka : observations on the probable existence of a North West Passage : and some account of the trade between the North West Coast of America and China; and the latter country and Great Britain / by John Meares, Esq.

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Creator:: Meares, John, 1756?-1809
Date:: MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:: viii, [12], xcv, [1], 372, [108] pages, ([28] leaves of plates, [4] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts