New Members Collect 2026
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New Members Collect 2026
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The Great Frozen Sea: A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the “Alert” during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6.
The British Arctic Expedition was the Royal Navy’s final grand attempt to reach the North Pole. Parr sledged with Captain Markham’s team to 83° 20’ 26” N, the furthest north then reached. When scurvy and exhaustion incapacitated the others, he, the…
The Great Frozen Sea: A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the “Alert” during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6.
The British Arctic Expedition was the Royal Navy’s final grand attempt to reach the North Pole. Parr sledged with Captain Markham’s team to 83° 20’ 26” N, the furthest north then reached. When scurvy and exhaustion incapacitated the others, he, the…
The Great Frozen Sea: A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the “Alert” during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6.
The British Arctic Expedition was the Royal Navy’s final grand attempt to reach the North Pole. Parr sledged with Captain Markham’s team to 83° 20’ 26” N, the furthest north then reached. When scurvy and exhaustion incapacitated the others, he, the…
The Great Frozen Sea: A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the “Alert” during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6.
The British Arctic Expedition was the Royal Navy’s final grand attempt to reach the North Pole. Parr sledged with Captain Markham’s team to 83° 20’ 26” N, the furthest north then reached. When scurvy and exhaustion incapacitated the others, he, the…
Dinner plate, HMS Alert.
Displayed here is an earthenware dinner plate made for the wardroom of HMS Alert. The obverse shows a finely detailed polar bear in a snowy Arctic landscape; the reverse bears three anchors and the ship’s name. Part of a commissioned dinner service…
Custom Stationery. HMS Alert.
This single sheet folded to form four pages, bears the ship’s name and is blind-stamped at the head with an Admiralty anchor and Latin motto, with space provided for recording latitude and longitude. It allowed officers to track progress as the…
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Tallis’s History and Description of the Crystal Palace, and the Exhibition of the World’s Industry in 1851.
This three-volume work details the sights of the Great Exhibition in hundreds of engravings. Its vibrant publisher’s cloth binding, featuring a gilt stamped image of the Crystal Palace, has become the poster child for the Poison Book Project at…
Le Prix d'Encouragement du Premier Age ou le Précepte et l'Example.
Much of the study of arsenical books has so far focused on the use of Emerald Green on book cloth, but it was also extensively used on coated papers, such as those that make up this cartonnage binding. It is easy to see why the pigment was so…
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