8 volumes, comprising introductory brochure and 7 vols. log-books, folio. Introductory brochure with numerous facsimiles, reproductions and illustrations; log-books reproduced in facsimile throughout. Original marbled boards (spines slightly soiled); cloth folding case. Provenance: Collector's bookplate, a few pencil marks. 

LIMITED EDITION, number 62 of 300 copies of this Explorer's Club facsimile printed by The Knickerbocker Press.  "The seven log-books, 473 pages, pertaining to fourteen voyages into the Arctic seas around Spitsbergen and the east coast of Greenland, by Captain William Scoresby, Senior, of Whitby, England, reproduced by the Explorers Club, through the generosity of one of its members, have rested forty years in the library of the American descendants of his son, Thomas Scoresby, M.D.... By the courtesy of the owners these invaluable records of early northern navigation, whale fishing and exploration, were lent to the Explorers Club for the purpose of reproduction" (Preface p.v).