Category: Polar

Price: £130.00

Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co: 1923

Seller ID: 57524

Condition: 316pp, new spine with original boards, some damp fading to leading edge of rear board, foreedge foxing, near VG in colour photocopy of original scarce dw.

Includes chapters on Bruce's expeditions to Franz Josef Land and Svalbard, his mapping and coal prospecting in Prince Charles Foreland.
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A Naturalist At The Poles. The Life, Work & Voyages Of Dr. W.S. Bruce The Polar Explorer.

Price: £195.00

Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co: 1923

Seller ID: 55084

Condition: 316pp, original pictorial boards, new spine in closely matching cloth, VG in colour photocopy of original scarce dw.

Includes chapters on Bruce's expeditions to Franz Josef Land and Svalbard, his mapping and coal prospecting in Prince Charles Foreland.
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A Naturalist At The Poles. The Life, Work & Voyages Of Dr. W.S. Bruce The Polar Explorer.

Price: £460.00

Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co: 1923

Seller ID: 52690

Condition: 316pp, original pictorial boards, some faint speckling to spine, light foxing to endpapers and foreedges, VG in near VG scarce dw.

Includes chapters on Bruce's expeditions to Franz Josef Land and Svalbard, his mapping and coal prospecting in Prince Charles Foreland.
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A Naturalist At The Poles. The Life, Work & Voyages Of Dr. W.S. Bruce The Polar Explorer.

Price: £100.00

Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company: 1924

Seller ID: 51636

Condition: 316pp, exlibrary, grey library binding, page edges trimmed slightly, internally very clean, lacking the two folding maps, Good+.

Includes chapters on Bruce's expeditions to Franz Josef Land and Svalbard, his mapping and coal prospecting in Prince Charles Foreland.
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A Naturalist At The Poles. The Life, Work & Voyages Of Dr. W.S. Bruce The Polar Explorer.

Price: £180.00

Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co: 1923

Seller ID: 50569

Condition: 316pp, original pictorial boards, some sunning to boards, wear to extremities, foxing to endpapers, Good+ in colour photocopy of original dw.

Includes chapters on Bruce's expeditions to Franz Josef Land and Svalbard, his mapping and coal prospecting in Prince Charles Foreland.
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A Naturalist At The Poles. The Life, Work & Voyages Of Dr. W.S. Bruce The Polar Explorer.

Price: £160.00

Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co: 1923

Seller ID: 47768

Condition: 316pp, new dark grey cloth binding with original spine and image from front board relaid, spine lettering and front image faded, VG- in colour photocopy of original dw.

Includes chapters on Bruce's expeditions to Franz Josef Land and Svalbard, his mapping and coal prospecting in Prince Charles Foreland.
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A Naturalist At The Poles. The Life, Work & Voyages Of Dr. W.S. Bruce The Polar Explorer.

Price: £230.00

Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co: 1923

Seller ID: 56905

Condition: 316pp, original pictorial boards, professional recased with new spine and original laid on, light foxing to endpapers and foreedges, an attractive tight copy, VG+ in colour photocopy of original dw.

Includes chapters on Bruce's expeditions to Franz Josef Land and Svalbard, his mapping and coal prospecting in Prince Charles Foreland.
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The Arctic World

By: Bruemmer Fred

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Century Publishing: 1985

Seller ID: 52676

ISBN: 0712610588

Condition: 256pp, VG+ in VG+ dw. Large heavy book, extra postage will apply.

Lavishly illustrated record of life, both past and present, in the far north.
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The Arctic World.

By: Bruemmer Fred, Taylor Dr. William

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Century Publishing: 1985

Seller ID: 64221

ISBN: 0712610588

Condition: 256pp, Fine in VG+ dw. Large heavy book, extra postage will apply.

The fascinating story of the adaptation of man, plants and animals to the arctic environment is told by six polar experts from around the world.
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Ordeal By Ice. Ships of the Antarctic

By: Bryan Rorke

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing: 2011

Seller ID: 68737

ISBN: 1848321163

Condition: 544pp, 189x247mm, maps, colour photos, black and white photos, hardback, New in dustwrapper, label signed by Rorke Bryan to title page.

This richly illustrated book is destined to become the reference book on ships of the Antarctic. Surrounded by some of the most hazardous seas, Antarctica was first sighted less than three centuries ago. Since then, hundreds of ships have voyaged in Antarctic waters, challenged by poorly-charted waters, storms, pack ice, icebergs, and disease. This is the story of these ships, the expeditions they supported, and their subsequent history, from the fifteenth-century fleets of the Ming Emperors of China to the tourist ships and powerful icebreakers of today. Using extensive research in archives, ...
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Ordeal By Ice. Ships of the Antarctic

By: Bryan Rorke

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing: 2011

Seller ID: 68734

ISBN: 1848321163

Condition: 544pp, 189x247mm, maps, colour photos, black and white photos, hardback, New in dustwrapper, label signed by Rorke Bryan to title page.

Ordeal By Ice. Ships of the Antarctic

By: Bryan Rorke

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing: 2011

Seller ID: 68736

ISBN: 1848321163

Condition: 544pp, 189x247mm, maps, colour photos, black and white photos, hardback, New in dustwrapper, label signed by Rorke Bryan to title page.

The Siege And Conquest Of The North Pole

By: Bryce George

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Gibbings & Company: 1910

Seller ID: 10024

Condition: 334pp, VG

The Siege And Conquest Of The North Pole

By: Bryce George

Price: £26.00

Publisher: Gibbings & Company: 1910

Seller ID: 1700

Condition: 334pp, boards dull & rubbed so VG-, VG internally

The Cruise of the 'Antarctic' to the South Polar Regions

Price: £125.00

Publisher: The Paradigm Press / Bluntisham Books: 1984

Seller ID: 63361

ISBN: 0950610445

Condition: 243pp, original highly decorative boards, small owner's address label, Fine. A lovely copy of this attractive reprint which retains much of the character of the original First Edition.

Bull was a Norwegian businessman who had emigrated to Australia in 1885. He was convinced the whales reportedly found in the Ross Sea by Ross could be taken for profit and returned to Norway convincing Svend Foyn, a whaling magnate, to finance an expedition. The expedition left Melbourne for Antarctica on 28 September 1894, crossing the Antarctic Circle on 25 December, they entered the Ross Sea and landed on Possession Island on 19 January. Borchgrevink was on board as a scientist and discovered lichen on the island which was the first vegetation found south of the Antarctic Circle. The expedi...
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The Cruise of the 'Antarctic' to the South Polar Regions

Price: £125.00

Publisher: The Paradigm Press / Bluntisham Books: 1984

Seller ID: 66551

ISBN: 0950610445

Condition: 243pp, original highly decorative boards, slight rounding to corners, Fine. A lovely copy of this attractive reprint which retains much of the character of the original First Edition.

The Cruise of the 'Antarctic' to the South Polar Regions

Price: £680.00

Publisher: Edward Arnold: 1896

Seller ID: 68000

Condition: 243pp, 32pp adverts, 12 illusts, original decorative blue boards, new spine with gilt titling, wear to corner tips, VG.

The Cruise of the 'Antarctic' to the South Polar Regions

Price: £110.00

Publisher: The Paradigm Press / Bluntisham Books: 1984

Seller ID: 68925

ISBN: 0950610445

Condition: 243pp, original highly decorative boards, near Fine. An attractive reprint which retains much of the character of the original First Edition.

The Quest For Frank Wild

By: Butler Angie

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Jackleberry Press: 2019

Seller ID: 68502

ISBN: 0956927211

Condition: 232p, paperback, New, signed by Angie Butler.

The truth of the final years of Frank Wild's life. Wild was Ernest Shackleton's closest friend and the only explorer to serve on five expeditions during the Heroic Age. The book fulfils Wild's wish to have his memoirs published. This reprint includes an epilogue covering the return of Wild's ashes to South Georgia.
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The Quest For Frank Wild

By: Butler Angie

Price: £38.00

Publisher: Jackleberry Press: 2011

Seller ID: 68493

ISBN: 0956927203

Condition: 214pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper, signed by Angie Butler.

The Quest For Frank Wild

By: Butler Angie

Price: £38.00

Publisher: Jackleberry Press: 2011

Seller ID: 68492

ISBN: 0956927203

Condition: 214pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper, signed by Angie Butler.

Survival: South Atlantic

By: Buxton Cindy & Price Annie

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Granada Publishing: 1983

Seller ID: 44028

ISBN: 0246120878

Condition: 237pp, inscription, VG in VG dw.

In March 1982 the wildlife Film-maker Cindy Buxton and her assistant Annie Price were coming to the end of seven months filming on the South Atlantic island of South Georgia when the Argentinians invaded.
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Survival: South Atlantic

By: Buxton Cindy & Price Annie

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Granada Publishing: 1983

Seller ID: 52651

ISBN: 0246120878

Condition: 237pp, Fine in Fine dw

Little America. Aerial Exploration In The Antarctic The Flight To The South Pole

By: Byrd Richard E.

Price: £36.00

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1930

Seller ID: 52811

Condition: xvi, 422pp, 74 illusts, map, original decorative blue cloth, a few minor speckles to boards, pictorial endpapers, inscription, light foxing to prelims, very clean internally just the very occasional spot of foxing, VG in colour photocopy of original dw.

Discovery. The Story Of The Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition

By: Byrd Richard Evelyn

Price: £33.00

Publisher: Putnam: 1935

Seller ID: 66843

Condition: xxi, 405pp, original blue boards, map endpapers, Fine in Good+ chipped dw. A lovely copy in an uncommon dustwrapper.

Little America. Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic & the Flight to the South Pole

By: Byrd Richard Evelyn

Price: £65.00

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1931

Seller ID: 57570

Condition: xvi, 422pp, 74 illusts, map, original royal blue cloth, pictorial endpapers, many pages unopened, light foxing to prelims, internally exceptionally clean, near Fine in colour photocopy of original dw. A lovely copy of the much scarcer UK First Edition.

The Great North

By: Cadell James

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Andre Deutsch: 1957

Seller ID: 1578

Up Through The Ice Of The North Pole

By: Calvert James F. Comdr. USN

Price: £12.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society: 1959

Seller ID: 45066

Condition: 1 - 41pp, extract from the National Geographic Magazine, July 1959, in green card covers, VG+

Up through the ice of the North Pole
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Antarctica. The Last Continent

By: Cameron Ian

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Cassell: 1974

Seller ID: 64021

ISBN: 0304294160

Condition: 256pp, some spotting to boards, VG- in VG+ dw

History of Antarctic Explorations.
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The Crystal Desert. Summers In Antarctica

By: Campbell David G.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1992

Seller ID: 64032

ISBN: 043620049X

Condition: 308pp, yellowing to page edges, map endpapers, VG+ in VG+ dw

The Antarctic Peninsula, its plants and animals.
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Moonlight At Midday

By: Carrighar Sally

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Michael Joseph: 1959

Seller ID: 57164

Condition: 317pp, foxing to foreedges and endpapers, VG+ in VG dw

Alaskan life with the local native people.
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The Voyage Of The 'Pourquoi-Pas?'. The Journal Of The Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908-1910.

Price: £125.00

Publisher: C. Hurst & Company: 1978

Seller ID: 62403

ISBN: 0903983753

Condition: 315pp, Fine in VG+ dw

The expedition visited the South Shetland Islands and bunkered at Deception Island. With a compliment of 30 men they wintered at Petermann Island. They went on to charter the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula and islands southwards to Adelaide Island and Alexander Island, discovering Marguerite Bay, Fallieres Coast and Charcot Land which later proved to be an island. A comprehensive scientific programme was undertaken partly supplied and assisted by whaling vessels, especially from deception Island.
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The Voyage Of The 'Pourquoi-Pas?'. The Journal Of The Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908-1910.

Price: £125.00

Publisher: C. Hurst & Company: 1978

Seller ID: 56113

ISBN: 0903983753

Condition: 315pp, Fine in VG+ dw

The Voyage Of The 'Pourquoi-Pas?'. The Journal Of The Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908-1910.

Price: £125.00

Publisher: C. Hurst & Company: 1978

Seller ID: 57518

ISBN: 0903983753

Condition: 315pp, Fine in VG+ dw

The Voyage Of The 'Pourquoi-Pas?'. The Journal Of The Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908-1910.