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By: Thomson David
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Allen Lane: 1977
Edition: 1977 First Edition
Seller ID: 37947
ISBN: 0713910348
Condition: 331pp, VG+ in VG priced clipped dw with sunning to spine.
Study of the early attempts on the South Pole, with a group biography of the men who journeyed with Scott. View more info
By: Thomson David
Price: £9.00
Publisher: Allen Lane: 1977
Edition: 1977 First Edition
Seller ID: 66668
ISBN: 0713910348
Condition: 331pp, VG in VG dw with slight sunning to spine.
Study of the early attempts on the South Pole, with a group biography of the men who journeyed with Scott. View more info
By: Tilman H.W.
Price: £18.00
Publisher: The Adventurers Club: 1967
Edition: 1967 rep
Seller ID: 1232
Condition: 191pp, corner of fep cut o/w VG in complete but soiled Good dw.
Voyages and travels around Baffin Bay, East Greenland and Heard Island. View more info
By: Tilman H.W.
Price: £75.00
Publisher: Hollis & Carter: 1966
Edition: 1966 First Edition
Seller ID: 66765
Condition: 191pp, owner's signature, VG+ in VG- dw.
Voyages and travels around Baffin Bay, East Greenland and Heard Island. View more info
By: Tilman H.W.
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Rupert Hart-Davis: 1961
Edition: 1961 First Edition
Seller ID: 68773
Condition: 192pp, sunning to spine, VG in colour photocopy of original dw.
A voyage to the Crozet and Kerguelen Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean to climb untrodden peaks and explore the unknown glaciers. View more info
By: Tilman H.W.
Price: £295.00
Publisher: 1965
Edition: 1965
Seller ID: 68907
Condition: Official Expedition Postcard, with expedition ink stamp signed by the ten expedition members which included H.W. Tilman, Phil Temple and Warwick Deacock. VG.
H.W. Tilman skippered the ship, 'Patanela', that the expedition party used to reach Heard Island. It was a private sailing and climbing adventure, led by Major Warwick Deacock, to the small island on the edge of Antarctica to climb the central volcano 'Big Ben' for the first time. View more info
By: Tilman H.W.
Price: £225.00
Publisher: 1965
Edition: 1965
Seller ID: 68908
Condition: Official Expedition Postcard, with expedition ink stamp signed by the ten expedition members which included H.W. Tilman, Phil Temple and Warwick Deacock. Ink stain bottom corner of the front of the postcard not affecting the rear with the signatures, Good+.
H.W. Tilman skippered the ship, 'Patanela', that the expedition party used to reach Heard Island. It was a private sailing and climbing adventure, led by Major Warwick Deacock, to the small island on the edge of Antarctica to climb the central volcano 'Big Ben' for the first time. View more info
By: Todd Frank S.
Price: £5.00
Publisher: HBJ Publishers: 1981
Edition: 1981 US Edition
Seller ID: 64285
ISBN: 0152719512
Condition: 96pp, paperback, VG.
A Sea World book for children. View more info
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd: 1958
Edition: 1958 First Edition
Seller ID: 62341
Condition: 192pp, sunning to spine, Good+
Sailed fron Montreal on the famed ship of the Eastern Arctic, R.M.S. Nascopie. Wanda travelled to meet her fiance Wulfert Tolboo, who was port manager at Povungnetuk for the Hudson's Bay Company. View more info
Price: £22.00
Publisher: Orion Forlag: 1997
Edition: 1997 First Edition
Seller ID: 38091
ISBN: 8245802638
Condition: 160pp, corners bumped, light rippling to very bottom of pages due to water damage, Good+
The first ascent of the Ronde Spire, stunning photographs. View more info
Price: £40.00
Publisher: Dronning Maud Land: 1994
Edition: 1994 First Edition
Seller ID: 68777
ISBN: 8252712509
Condition: 160pp, VG+ in VG+ dw.
Ivar Erik Tollefsen organised and led the 13 man climbing expedition to Queen Maud Land in Antarctica. Stunning photographs. View more info
By: Traill H. D.
Price: £125.00
Publisher: John Murray: 1896
Edition: 1896 First Edition
Seller ID: 55840
Condition: 454pp, 2 maps, 2 portraits, 2 facsimiles, original brown cloth with gilt, professionally recased with new spine and original laid on, signs of label removal to top of front board, internally very clean, VG. A very strong copy indeed.
By: Trendall A. F.
Price: £85.00
Publisher: Her Majesty's Stationery Office: 1953
Edition: 1953 & 1959
Seller ID: 63682
Condition: 26pp, 48pp, plus plates maps, large paperback, in original paper wrappers, owner's signature, VG+. Attractive copies.
By: Trendall Alec
Price: £120.00
Publisher: Alec Trendall: 2011
Edition: 2011 First Edition
Seller ID: 59580
ISBN: 0987061402
Condition: 216pp, 112 photographs, hardback, New. One of only 200 copies of the hardback edition.
The sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, about 170 kilometres long and up to 30 kilometres wide, lies at the southern end of the Atlantic Ocean, about 2000 kilometres east of Cape Horn. Its icy mountain spine rises nearly 3000 metres out of the ocean, like a misplaced section of the Alps. The island lies well within the cold waters bounded by the Antarctic Polar Front, and more than half of its area is permanently covered by ice and snow. Although South Georgia was visited with increasing frequency after its discovery by Captain Cook in 1775, and was for a long time a busy base for the seal... View more info
By: Trendall Alec
Price: £115.00
Publisher: Alec Trendall: 2011
Edition: 2011 First Edition
Seller ID: 63030
ISBN: 0987061402
Condition: 216pp, 112 photographs, hardback, Fine. One of only 200 copies of the hardback edition.
The sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, about 170 kilometres long and up to 30 kilometres wide, lies at the southern end of the Atlantic Ocean, about 2000 kilometres east of Cape Horn. Its icy mountain spine rises nearly 3000 metres out of the ocean, like a misplaced section of the Alps. The island lies well within the cold waters bounded by the Antarctic Polar Front, and more than half of its area is permanently covered by ice and snow. Although South Georgia was visited with increasing frequency after its discovery by Captain Cook in 1775, and was for a long time a busy base for the seal... View more info
By: Trendall Alec
Price: £220.00
Publisher: Alec Trendall: 2011
Edition: 2011 First Limited Edition
Seller ID: 62598
ISBN: 0987061402
Condition: 216pp, 112 photographs, hardback, Mint. No.83 of only 100 copies numbered, presented in a slipcase and signed by Alec Trendall.
The sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, about 170 kilometres long and up to 30 kilometres wide, lies at the southern end of the Atlantic Ocean, about 2000 kilometres east of Cape Horn. Its icy mountain spine rises nearly 3000 metres out of the ocean, like a misplaced section of the Alps. The island lies well within the cold waters bounded by the Antarctic Polar Front, and more than half of its area is permanently covered by ice and snow. Although South Georgia was visited with increasing frequency after its discovery by Captain Cook in 1775, and was for a long time a busy base for the seal... View more info
By: Trendall Alec
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Alec Trendall: 2011
Edition: 2011 First Edition
Seller ID: 61298
ISBN: 0987061410
Condition: 216pp, 112 photographs, softback, New.
The sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, about 170 kilometres long and up to 30 kilometres wide, lies at the southern end of the Atlantic Ocean, about 2000 kilometres east of Cape Horn. Its icy mountain spine rises nearly 3000 metres out of the ocean, like a misplaced section of the Alps. The island lies well within the cold waters bounded by the Antarctic Polar Front, and more than half of its area is permanently covered by ice and snow. Although South Georgia was visited with increasing frequency after its discovery by Captain Cook in 1775, and was for a long time a busy base for the seal... View more info
By: Trendall Alec
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Alec Trendall: 2011
Edition: 2011 First Edition
Seller ID: 61241
ISBN: 0987061410
Condition: 216pp, 112 photographs, softback, New.
The sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, about 170 kilometres long and up to 30 kilometres wide, lies at the southern end of the Atlantic Ocean, about 2000 kilometres east of Cape Horn. Its icy mountain spine rises nearly 3000 metres out of the ocean, like a misplaced section of the Alps. The island lies well within the cold waters bounded by the Antarctic Polar Front, and more than half of its area is permanently covered by ice and snow. Although South Georgia was visited with increasing frequency after its discovery by Captain Cook in 1775, and was for a long time a busy base for the seal... View more info
By: Turley Charles
Price: £14.00
Publisher: Metheun: 1933
Edition: 1933 First Edition
Seller ID: 64646
Condition: 210pp, original green cloth with gilt norwegian flag, foxing to foreedges, map endpaper to front, VG
By: Umbreit Andreas
Price: £6.00
Publisher: Bradt Publications: 1991
Edition: 1991 First Edition
Seller ID: 42431
Condition: 208pp, paperback, VG+
Spitsbergen is as close as you can easily get to the North Pole. View more info
By: Unesco
Price: £35.00
Publisher: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: 1981
Edition: 1981 First Edition
Seller ID: 63398
ISBN: 9230016969
Condition: 267pp, paperback, ex Scott Polar Research Institute, VG.
Text in English, French, German, Spanish and Russian. View more info
By: Upton Florence K. & Upton Bertha
Price: £36.00
Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co.: 1967
Edition: 1967 reprint
Seller ID: 63647
Condition: 63pp, 31 full page chromolithographs, pictorial hardback, some slight soiling to boards, VG. An attractive copy of a scarce title.
Golliwogg goes to the North Pole. View more info
By: Upton Florence K. & Upton Bertha
Price: £36.00
Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co.: 1967
Edition: 1967 reprint
Seller ID: 66608
Condition: 63pp, 31 full page chromolithographs, pictorial hardback, some mild rubbing to boards, owner's initials on rear pastedown, VG..
Golliwogg goes to the North Pole. View more info
By: Vahl M., Amdrup G.C., Bobe L., Jensen AD.S [Editors]
Price: £175.00
Publisher: The Commission for the Direction of the Geological and Geographical Investigations in Greenland: 1928
Edition: 1928 & 1929 First Edition
Seller ID: 57182
Condition: 573pp, 415pp, 468pp, original pale green printed wrappers, largely unopened pages, slight soiling only, VG+. A lovely set.
By: Van Bennelen Dr R. W. and Rutten Dr M. G.
Price: £79.00
Publisher: Leiden, E. J. Brill: 1955
Edition: 1955 First Edition
Seller ID: 66513
Condition: viii, 217pp, 52 plates, 3 folding maps, original brown cloth, wear to head of spine, private blindstamp, internally very clean near VG. A very scarce title.
This is the report on field work, carried out in northern Iceland, more particularly in the Myvatn District and the Ódáðahraun, during the summer of 1950. The primary interest was centred on the genesis of the table mountains, but other subjects were studied too. View more info
By: VanderZwaag David L. & Lamson Cynthia
Price: £26.00
Publisher: McGill Queen's University Press: 1990
Edition: 1990 First Edition
Seller ID: 33994
Condition: 282pp, Fine in Fine dw
A collection of candid essays on the future of Arctic waters View more info
By: Various
Price: £5.00
Seller ID: 690
Condition: VG
By: Various
Price: £6.00
Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2016
Edition: 2016
Seller ID: 63587
Condition: New.
Six Antarctic postcards with scenes as follows - 1. Three great Polar Explorers: Sir Ernest Shackleton, discoverer of the South Magnetic Pole, Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, discoverer of the North Pole, and Roald Amundsen discoverer of the South Pole, photograph probably taken c.1912-13. 2. Shackleton’s Endurance, crushed in the ice, October 1915. 3. Scott’s Discovery in Winter quarters, painted by Edward Wilson in 1903. 4. One of a series of memorial postcards produced in 1913, after the news broke about the death of Scott and his party. 5. The Discovery in Winterquarters Bay, photographe... View more info
By: Various
Price: £6.00
Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2016
Edition: 2016
Seller ID: 63588
Condition: New.
Six Antarctic postcards with scenes as follows - 1. Three great Polar Explorers: Sir Ernest Shackleton, discoverer of the South Magnetic Pole, Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, discoverer of the North Pole, and Roald Amundsen discoverer of the South Pole, photograph probably taken c.1912-13. 2. Shackleton’s Endurance, crushed in the ice, October 1915. 3. Scott’s Discovery in Winter quarters, painted by Edward Wilson in 1903. 4. One of a series of memorial postcards produced in 1913, after the news broke about the death of Scott and his party. 5. The Discovery in Winterquarters Bay, photographe... View more info
By: Venables Stephen
Price: £24.00
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1991
Edition: 1991 First Edition
Seller ID: 44607
ISBN: 0340556005
Condition: 177pp, small bump to top corners, near Fine in Fine dw, signed by Stephen Venables.
The greatest challenge was weathering the blizzard conditions and spending 23 days trapped in an ice cave. View more info
By: Venables Stephen
Price: £22.00
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1991
Edition: 1991 First Edition
Seller ID: 44606
ISBN: 0340556005
Condition: 177pp, usual slight browning to page edges, VG in VG dw, signed by Stephen Venables.
The greatest challenge was weathering the blizzard conditions and spending 23 days trapped in an ice cave. View more info
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Hachette: 1958
Edition: 1958 First Edition
Seller ID: 64041
Condition: 95pp, small bump to bottom corner of rear board, laminated boards, VG
Text In French View more info
Price: £7.00
Publisher: National Geographic Society: 1956
Edition: 1956
Seller ID: 45057
Condition: 121-149pp, extract from National Geographic Magazine Jan 1956, bound in card covers, VG+
By: Victor Paul-Emile & Lamblin Joelle Robert
Price: £55.00
Publisher: Armand Colin: 1989
Edition: 1989 First Edition
Seller ID: 58343
ISBN: 220037187X
Condition: 311pp, Fine in Fine dw
Jeux, Gestes et techniques des eskimo d'ammassalik. Text in French View more info
Price: £22.00
Publisher: Dreyers Forlag: 1961
Edition: 1961 First Edition
Seller ID: 52570
Condition: 198pp, full red leather binding with gilt, minor wear, slight foxing to end papers, VG+ attractive copy
Chapters on all aspects of Nansen's life, covers the artist, outdoorsman, geologist, oceanographer, zooologist etc., View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: The Knell Press: 1982
Edition: 1982 Revised Edition
Seller ID: 52840
ISBN: 0950821802
Condition: 194pp, owner's signature on title page, Fine in Fine dw.
Walton went to the Antarctic at the end of the war as part of the newly formed Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. He took part in re-supplying four existing bases and helped to establish a new base at Marguerite Bay on the Antarctic Peninsular. View more info
Price: £9.00
Publisher: Lutterworth Press: 1955
Edition: 1955 First Edition
Seller ID: 62366
Condition: 194pp, cracking to front endpaper, owner's signature, light foxing to endpapers, slack, rubbing to top and bottom of spine, speckling on spine, Poor
Walton went to the Antarctic at the end of the war as part of the newly formed Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. He took part in re-supplying four existing bases and helped to establish a new base at Marguerite Bay on the Antarctic Peninsular. View more info
By: Warr Michael
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Antarctic Memories Publishing: 2006
Edition: 2006 First Edition
Seller ID: 31575
Condition: 176 pages, 16 illustrations. Softback, New.
Describes this life, and contrasts it with the changes of present-day Antarctica. View more info
By: Watson Jessie W.
Price: £11.00
Publisher: National Geographic Society: 1952
Edition: 1952
Seller ID: 45078
Condition: 483-500pp, extract from the National Geographic Magazine February 1952, in green card covers, VG+
Price: £74.00
Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2018
Edition: 2018 First Edition
Seller ID: 68170
ISBN: 185297124X
Condition: A stunning limited edition package containing - The Antarctic Diary of Andrew Dougald Watson - hardback, cloth bound, blocked on cover and spine, 192pp, 70 illusts. The Antarctic Diary of Alexander Lorimer Kennedy – hardback, cloth bound, blocked on cover and spine, 168pp, 60 illusts. The Paintings and Drawings of Charles Turnbull Harrisson - 36pp + cover, softback, 55 illusts, full colour, on high quality art paper. Charles Turnbull Harrisson – A Life - 16pp + cover, booklet, 15 illusts. Full Colour Map of Queen Mary Land. All encased in a rigid slip cover. This is a limited edition of 300 numbered copies. The books will not be available separately.
Harrisson, Kennedy and Watson were all members of Mawson's Western party led by the legendary Frank Wild, the only person to be awarded the Polar medal with four bars. Charles Harrisson was the biologist on Mawson’s expedition and was also an enormously talented painter. He charted the life of the Western Party through his paintings and drawings. In 1914 he tragically lost his life when the ship he was on was lost with all hands when returning from Macquarie Island. View more info
Price: £9.00
Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode: 1967
Edition: 1967 First Edition
Seller ID: 57448
Condition: 362pp, Fine in Fine dw.
By: Weidick Anker, Boggild Carl Egede & Knudsen Niels Tvis
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Geological Survey Of Greenland: 1992
Edition: 1992 First Edition
Seller ID: 67952
ISBN: 04186559
Condition: 194pp, paperback, VG.
By: Wharton Margery
Price: £75.00
Publisher: Margery Wharton: 1998
Edition: 1998 First Edition
Seller ID: 66550
ISBN: 0953307409
Condition: 272pp, pictorial boards, Fine.
A catalogue covering 1898-1958 of postcards of Antarctic Expeditions. View more info
By: Wheeler Sara
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Vintage Books: 2010
Edition: 2010 reprint
Seller ID: 62615
ISBN: 0099516888
Condition: 354pp, paperback, VG+ copy
By: Wheeler Sara
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Jonathan Cape: 2001
Edition: 2001 First Edition, Second Printing
Seller ID: 64020
ISBN: 0224050044
Condition: 354pp, pictorial endpapers, Fine in VG dw
One of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic View more info
By: Whipple A.B.C.
Price: £12.00
Publisher: Victor Gollancz: 1954
Edition: 1954 First Edition
Seller ID: 64180
Condition: 264pp, foxing to a few pages and foreedges, Good in Good dw with chips
By: White David C & Morris Patrick
Price: £18.00
Publisher: The Newberry Library: 2000
Edition: 2000 First US Edition
Seller ID: 59019
ISBN: 0911028706
Condition: 227pp, paperback, New copy
A very useful reference. View more info
By: White David C & Morris Patrick
Price: £18.00
Publisher: The Newberry Library: 2000
Edition: 2000 First US Edition
Seller ID: 51748
ISBN: 0911028706
Condition: 227pp, paperback, Fine copy
A very useful reference. View more info
Price: £8.00
Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2016
Edition: 2016
Seller ID: 63603
Condition: 4pp, facsimile, New.
The Quest, under the command of Ernest Shackleton, sailed from St Katherine’s Dock, London on 17 September 1921. This was Shackleton’s 4th Antarctic journey, the purpose of which was ostensibly to circumvent the Antarctic continent, looking for lost sub-polar islands. Shackleton was not well—and he saw this last voyage as a chance to relive old times. He appeared somewhat listless and was drinking too much. When the ship arrived in Buenos Aires he had what appeared to be a heart attack but refused to let any doctor attend to him. On 4 January 1922 the ship reached South Georgia and the f... View more info
Price: £8.00
Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2016
Edition: 2016
Seller ID: 63596
Condition: 4pp, facsimile, New.
The Quest, under the command of Ernest Shackleton, sailed from St Katherine’s Dock, London on 17 September 1921. This was Shackleton’s 4th Antarctic journey, the purpose of which was ostensibly to circumvent the Antarctic continent, looking for lost sub-polar islands. Shackleton was not well—and he saw this last voyage as a chance to relive old times. He appeared somewhat listless and was drinking too much. When the ship arrived in Buenos Aires he had what appeared to be a heart attack but refused to let any doctor attend to him. On 4 January 1922 the ship reached South Georgia and the f... View more info
