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Burton Holmes was born on January 8, 1870 in Chicago – died on July 22, 1958 in Los Angeles. Holmes was an American traveler, photographer and filmmaker, who coined the term "travelogue". Travel stories, slide shows and motion pictures were all in existence before Holmes began making his travel films, but he was the first person to put these elements together into documentary travel lectures. Holmes has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Original Burton Holmes Autograph, signed on the back of a Ticket. The ticket: Merrill Lecture Course The twenty-third Season Burton Holmes "Motoring Through Spain" Illustrated Town Hall, Exeter Wednesday Evening, November 20, 1929 7:30 O'Clock This ticket good until 7.20. Written on Back: Very Cordially Burton holmes 1929. Approx. size 2 1/2 x 4 inches. Regular Price - $ 145.00 / Sale Price - $ 94.95.

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Sir Henry Morton Stanley, also known in the Congo as Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks or, alternatively, Sledge Hammer) , born John Rowlands (January 28, 1841 – May 10, 1904), was a journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone. Stanley is best remembered for his words upon finding him: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Stanley travelled to Zanzibar and outfitted an expedition with the best of everything, requiring no fewer than 200 porters. He found Livingstone on November 10, 1871, in Ujiji near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania, and greeted him (at least according to his own journal) with the now famous, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Stanley joined him in exploring the region, establishing for certain that there was no connection between Lake Tanganyika and the River Nile. On his return, he wrote a book about his experiences. The New York Herald, in partnership with Britain's Daily Telegraph, then financed him on another expedition to the African continent, one of his achievements being to solve the last great mystery of African exploration by tracing the course of the River Congo to the sea.

Original Henry Stanley Autograph signed on Stationary. Typed on stationary: 2, RICHMOND TERRACE, WHITEHALL, S.W. Written: London may 3, 1901 With the compliments of Henry M Stanley. Also included is a Congo Belge 5 c stamp featuring Henry Stanley. Regular Price - $ 1450.00 / Sale Price - $ 895.00.

Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, USN (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was a pioneering American polar explorer and famous aviator. Richard Evelyn Byrd was born into one of Virginia's First Families in Winchester, Virginia, and is a direct descendant of Pocahontas and John Rolfe. His parents were Richard Evelyn Byrd and Eleanor Bolling Flood. A descendant of William Byrd II of Westover Plantation (founder of Richmond, Virginia), his brother was Harry Flood Byrd who became a Governor of Virginia and U.S. Senator. He has no relationship to West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd. Richard E. Byrd attended the Virginia Military Institute and the University of Virginia before financial circumstances inspired his enrollment and graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 1912. He learned to fly in World War I during his tour with the United States Navy. He developed a passion for flight, and pioneered many techniques for navigating airplanes over the open ocean including drift indicators and bubble sextants. His expertise in this area resulted in his appointment to plan the flight path for the U.S. Navy's 1919 transatlantic crossing. Of the three flying boats that attempted it, only Albert Read's aircraft the NC-4 completed the trip; becoming the first ever transatlantic flight.

Original Richard Byrd Autograph, Signed on Cut Paper. Dated 1932. Also included is the Byrd Antarctic Expedition II Envelope. Regular Price - $ 449.99 / Sale Price - $ 199.00.

George Amos Dorsey was Born in Hebron, Ohio on February 6,1868. Died - March 29, 1931. American anthropologist and early U.S. ethnographer of North American. George Amos Dorsey authored many books: The Cheyenne, Indians of the Southwest, Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee, The Pawnee, A Bibliography of the Anthropology of Peru, Why We Behave Like Human Beings, Traditions of the Caddo, The Mythology of the Wichita, Hows and Whys of Human Behavior, Traditions of the Arikara, The Nature of Man, Traditions of the Osage, Traditions of the Arapaho, and Several more.

Original G. A. Dorsey Autograph, Signed on Cut Paper. Approx. Size 3 x 4 1/2. Dated 1931. Regular Price - $ 299.00 / Sale Price - $ 195.00.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson (Icelandic: Vilhjálmur Stefánsson) (November 3, 1879 – August 26, 1962) was a Canadian Arctic explorer and ethnologist. He was born at Gimli, Manitoba, Canada, of Icelandic descent. He was educated in the universities of North Dakota and of Iowa (A.B., 1903). He studied anthropology at the graduate school of Harvard University, and for two years was an instructor there. In 1904 and 1905, he made archæological researches in Iceland. He lived with the Eskimos (referred to now in Canada as the Inuit) of Mackenzie Delta during the winter of 1906-07, returning alone across country via the Porcupine and Yukon rivers. Under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, he and Dr. R. M. Anderson undertook the ethnological survey of the Central Arctic coasts of the shores of North America from 1908-12. He discovered a group of previously unknown Eskimos, the blond Eskimos, who had never before seen a white man in 1910. From 1913-16, for the Government of Canada, he took command of an expedition to explore the regions west of Parry Archipelago. Three ships, the Karluk, the Mary Sachs, and the Alaska were employed. His main ship, the Karluk, was beset in ice, crushed, and sunk on January 11, 1914, with the loss of some men who disappeared in making their way to Herald Island. Stefánsson abandoned the Karluk when it became stuck in the ice in August/September of 1913, leaving the crew with Captain Robert Bartlett of Newfoundland stranded on the frozen Arctic Ocean. He resumed his explorations by sledge over the Arctic Ocean, here known as the Beaufort Sea, leaving Collinson Point, Alaska in April, 1914. A supporting sledge turned back 75 miles (121 km) offshore, but he and two men continued onward on one sledge, living largely by his rifle on polar game for 96 days until his party reached the Mary Sachs in the autumn. In 1921, he encouraged and planned an expedition for four young men to colonize Wrangel Island north of Siberia, where the eleven survivors of the twenty-two men on the Karluk had lived from January to September 1914. Stefansson had designs for forming an exploration company that would be geared towards individuals interested in touring the Arctic Island. Stefansson originally wanted to claim Wrangel Island for the Canadian government. However due to the dangerous outcome from his initial trip to the island the government refused to assist with the expedition. He then wanted to claim the land for Britain but the British government rejected this claim when it was made by the young men. The raising of the British flag on Wrangel Island, acknowledged Russian territory, caused an international incident. The four young men, consisting of Fred Maurer from America, Allan Crawford, Lorne Knight and Milton Galle of Canada, were ill equipped, both materially and in experience for the trip. All perished on the island or in an attempt to get help from Siberia across the frozen Chukchi Sea and the only survivor was an Inuk woman named Ada Blackjack whom the men had hired as a seamstress in Nome, Alaska and taken with them. Blackjack had taught herself survivor skills and cared for the last man on the Island, E. Lorne Knight, until he died of scurvy. Ada Blackjack was rescued in 1923 after two years on Wrangel Island and Stefansson drew the ire of the public and the families for having sent such ill equipped young men to Wrangel. His reputation was largely destroyed by this disaster and that of the Karluk. His discoveries included new land and the edge of the continental shelf. Stefansson's journey and successes are among the marvels of polar exploration. He extended the discoveries of McClintock. From April, 1914 to June, 1915, he lived on the ice pack. Stefánsson continued his explorations, leaving from Herschel Island on August 23, 1915. Stefansson was an extremely well-known explorer in his lifetime. Late in life, through his affiliation with Dartmouth College (he was Director of Polar Studies), he became a major figure in the establishment of the US Army's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, New Hampshire. CRREL-supported research, often conducted in winter on the forbidding summit of Mount Washington, has been key to developing matériel and doctrine to support alpine conflict. Mr. Stefansson joined The Explorers Club (New York City) in 1908, four years after its founding. He later served as Club President twice: 1919-1922 and 1937-1939. In the all-male Club the Board made quite a splash under Stefansson's reign when it put forth an amendment to its Bylaws that read (Minutes, Jan. 4, 1938), "A Woman's Roll of Honor shall be instituted to which the Board of Directors may name women of the United States and Canada in recognition of the noteworthy achievements and writings in the field of the Club's interests, primarily exploration." Perhaps to comfort fellow members, the article added, "This Woman's Roll of Honor shall be quite outside the Club's organization but shall correspond in dignity to the Honorary Class of (male) members within it." Stefansson's personal papers and collection of Arctic artifacts are maintained and available to the public at the Dartmouth College Library. Stefansson is frequently quoted as saying that "adventure is a sign of incompetence."

Original Vilhjalmur Stefansson Autograph, Signed on cut paper. Hand written: Written for Frank Tricker by Vilhjalmur Stefansson April 18/34. Regular Price - $ 250.00 / Sale Price - $ 195.00.

Frederic Ward Putnam was born April 16, 1839 in Salem, Massachusetts – died August 14, 1915 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Putnam was an American naturalist and anthropologist. He had little formal education before college, but became the student of Louis Agassiz at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. Later he became the curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University from 1874 to 1909. He directed archæological digs across 37 U.S. states and in other countries. He published List of the Birds of Essex County (1856), originated The Naturalist's Directory (1865), and was one of the founders of the journal American Naturalist in 1867. Putnam was appointed the lead curator and head of the anthropology department in 1891 for the World's Columbian Exposition, to be held in Chicago in 1893. He spent much of the two years leading up to the exposition organizing and directing expeditions dispatched to all parts of the Americas and other parts of the world to gather natural history and ethnographic items for the exhibition. As the exposition was drawing to a close, Putnam agitated for a permanent home to be found for the collection of artifacts amassed under his supervision. Late in 1893 what was to become the Field Museum of Natural History was incorporated, opening the following year. Putnam held hopes of becoming the museum's first director but was unsuccessful. Putnam was also active in professional organizations, which were rapidly organizing. In 1898 he was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1901 he was president of the American Folklore Society. In 1905 he was president of the American Anthropological Association. He was invited to become a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of many foreign learned societies. Putnam is widely known as the "Father of American Archaeology" for his contribution of scientific methods and direction of many of the nascent field's best students.

Original Frederic Ward Putnam Autograph, signed on Peabody Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Letterhead. Typed on letter: Dear Sir: - The Peabody Museum is issuing from time to time its Memoirs and Papers, giving the results of researches in American Archaeology and Ethnology conducted by the Museum. As we are dependent upon voluntary contributions for conducting these researches and publishing the results, it is hoped that you will aid the Museum by becoming a subscriber to its regular publications. The prices of the several publications are given in the enclosed list. To regular subscribers, receiving the Memoirs and Papers as issued, 20 per cent discount is allowed. Contributions in aid of the American Archaeological and Ethnological researches by the Museum will be thankfully received. Respectfully yours, F. W. Putnam Curator of the Museum. Approx. Size 8 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches. Regular Price - $ 335.00 / Sale Price - $ 249.95.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born June 11, 1910 – died June 25, 1997. Jacques Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. He was commonly known as "le Commandant Cousteau" or "Captain Cousteau".

Jacques Cousteau was born in France. The man who would become a world-famous French naval officer and an even more famous underwater explorer learned how to swim in Vermont. In 1920, Cousteau’s family moved to New York. That summer Cousteau’s family began summering at Harvey’s Lake in West Barnet. Cousteau began learning swim strokes and diving techniques in this small, freshwater lake. Cousteau became a pioneer of marine conservation and invented the aqua-lung. Millions of Americans know Jacques Cousteau from his “Undersea World” films and television specials.

Original Jacques Cousteau Autograph, signed on a 10 3/8 x 13 1/4 Inch Black & White Photograph Mounted on Green Matt Board. Overall Size 16 x 20 Inches. Written: For Bob Standish, avec mes plus cordians sentiments J Cousteau. Price - $ 795.00.

Robert Edwin Peary (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer who claimed to have been the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole -- a claim that has subsequently attracted much criticism. Peary made several expeditions to the Arctic, exploring Greenland by dog sled in 1886 and 1891 and returning to the island three times in the 1890s. Unlike many previous explorers, Peary studied Inuit survival techniques, built igloos, and dressed in practical furs in the native fashion. Peary also relied on the Inuit as hunters and dog-drivers on his expeditions, and pioneered the use of the system (which he called the "Peary system") of using support teams and supply caches for Arctic travel. His wife, Josephine, accompanied him on several of his expeditions. He also had 8 toes amputated but kept walking. Peary was given a Rear Admiral's pension and the thanks of Congress by a special act of March 30, 1911. In the same year, he retired to Eagle Island, Maine, located on the coast of Maine, in Freeport. (His home there is now a Maine State Historic Site.) Civil Engineer Peary received honors from numerous scientific societies of Europe and America for his Arctic explorations and discoveries. He died in Washington, D.C., February 20, 1920 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Matthew Henson was reinterred nearby on April 6, 1988. The Liberty ship SS Robert E. Peary, the destroyer USS Peary (DD-226) the cargo ship USNS Robert E. Peary (T-AKE-5), and Knox-class frigate USS Robert E. Peary (FF 1073) were named for him.

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (July 16, 1872 – c. June 18, 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the first Antarctic expedition to the South Pole between 1910 and 1912. He disappeared in June 1928 while taking part in a rescue mission. With Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Amundsen was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Amundsen disappeared on June 18, 1928 while flying on a rescue mission with the famous Norwegian pilot Leif Dietrichson, the French pilot Rene Guilbaud, and three more Frenchmen, looking for missing members of Nobile's crew, whose new airship the Italia had crashed while returning from the North Pole. Afterwards, a pontoon from the French Latham 47 flying-boat he was in, improvised into a life raft, was found near the Tromsø coast. It is believed that the plane crashed in fog in the Barents Sea, and that Amundsen was killed in the crash, or died shortly afterwards. His body was never found. The search for Amundsen was called off in September by the Norwegian Government. In 2003 it was suggested that the plane went down northwest of Bjørnøya (Bear Island).

Original Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary's Autograph & Captain Roald Amundsen's Autograph, Signed on a Testimonial Dinner (Agenda/Menu) to Ruth Bancroft Law. Held on December 18, 1916 at the Hotel Astor, New York. (Many finger prints on back of Agenda/Menu). Regular Price - $ 2495.00 / Sale - $ 995.00.

Paul du Chaillu (July 31, 1835 – April 29, 1903), traveller and anthropologist, was born in either Paris or New Orleans (accounts conflict). (According to his friend Edward Clodd, who refers to this confusion and includes in it also New York, du Chaillu's true birthplace was the island of Bourbon (Réunion). In his youth he accompanied his father, a French trader in the employment of a Parisian firm, to the west coast of Africa. Here, at a station on the Gabun, the boy received some education from missionaries, and acquired an interest in and knowledge of the country, its natural history, and its natives, which guided him to his subsequent career. In 1852 he exhibited this knowledge in the New York press. He was sent in 1855 by the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia on an African expedition. Until 1859 he regularly explored the regions of West Africa in the neighborhood of the equator, gaining considerable knowledge of the delta of the Ogowe River and the estuary of the Gabun. During his travels he saw numbers of the great anthropoid apes called the gorilla (possibly the great ape described by Carthaginian navigators), then known to scientists only by a few skeletons, allowing him to market himself as the first white to have seen a gorilla. A subsequent expedition, from 1863 to 1865, enabled him to confirm the accounts given by the ancients of a pygmy people inhabiting the African forests. Du Chaillu sold his hunted gorillas to the Natural History Museum in London and his "cannibal skulls" to other European collections. (A fine cased group shot by du Chaillu may be seen in Ipswich Museum in Suffolk, England.) Narratives of both expeditions were published, in 1861 and 1867 respectively, under the titles Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa, with Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chace of the Gorilla, Crocodile, and other Animals; and A Journey to Ashango-land, and further penetration into Equatorial Africa. While in Ashango Land in 1865 he was elected King of the Apingi tribe. At the time, he was in great demand on the public lecture circuits of New York, London and Paris. His first work excited much controversy on the score of its veracity, but subsequent investigation proved the correctness of du Chaillu's statements as to the facts of natural history; though possibly some of the adventures he described as happening to himself were reproductions of the hunting stories of natives (see Proc. Zool. Soc. vol. i., 1905, p. 66). The map accompanying Ashango-land was of unique value, but the explorer's photographs and collections were lost when he was forced to flee from the hostility of the natives. After some years residence in America, during which he wrote several books for the young founded upon his African adventures, du Chaillu turned his attention to northern Europe. After a visit to northern Norway in 1871, over the following five years he made a study of customs and antiquities in Sweden, Norway, Lapland and Northern Finland. He published in 1881 The Land of the Midnight Sun (dedicated to his friend Robert Winthrop of New York), as a series of Summer and Winter Journeys, in two volumes. His 1889 work The Viking Age (also in two volumes) was a very broad study of the prehistoric antiquities of the Scandivian peninsula from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages (including literary remains), and demonstrating what is now generally recognised, the important Norse and Swedish cultural dimension to the Germanic settlements of Britain during the fifth to seventh centuries. This view was then unfamiliar and was ridiculed by Canon Isaac Taylor. This book (in two volumes) is now a very collectible item, as long as it is in good condition: there are two versions of the book known, one bound in a dark binding, the other in cloth-bound hardback with gold tooling. In 1900 he also published The Land of the Long Night. Paul was a friend of Edward Clodd and was present at one of his Whitsun gatherings at Strafford House, Aldeburgh, Suffolk in company with John Rhys, Grant Allen, York Powell and Joseph Thomson. He died following a stroke of paralysis at St. Petersburg, while on his way home from Russia.

Hand written on Hotel Marlborough letterhead: New York August 6th 1900. Dear Mr. Young, I have received your kind letter I will be delighted to inscribe my name on my books. Please send them C/O Charles Scribiners' XXX Publishers. Fifth Avenue New York. I sail for Europe in about ten days. Yours Sincerely, Paul Du Chaillu.

Original Paul Du Chaillu Autographed Letter. (close up view of autograph) Regular Price - $ 2000.00 / Sale Price - $ 800.00.