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Price: £85.00
Publisher: Kommisjon Hos Jacob Dybwad: 1942
Edition: 1942 Edition
Seller ID: 65370
Condition: 539pp, paperback, fading to spine, ink stamp of a Geological bureau on front cover, number label to spine, near VG. Text in English. A scarce title.
The Place-Names of Svalbard was originally published by Norsk Polarinstitutt as Skrifter No.80 in 1942. A supplement followed in 1958. View more info
Price: £115.00
Publisher: Norwegian Polar Institute: 2003
Edition: 2003
Seller ID: 68863
ISBN: 8276661947
Condition: 5387pp, pictorial boards, Fine. Text in English. A lovely copy of a scarce title.
The Place-Names of Svalbard was originally published by Norsk Polarinstitutt as Skrifter No.80 in 1942 with a supplement edition in 1958. This editions combines both publications into one volume. It is a true copy of the old editions as no corrections or additions have been made. View more info
By: Brogger W.C. & Rolfsen Nordahl
Price: £38.00
Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co: 1896
Edition: 1896 First Edition
Seller ID: 46521
Condition: 402pp, original blue highly decorative boards, maps, illusts, inscription, some light foxing, one plate reproduced, VG. A bright attractive copy.
Biography with chapters describing Greenland, the ice age, the Norwegian Greenland Expedition, 1888. View more info
By: Brogger W.C. & Rolfsen Nordahl
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co: 1896
Edition: 1896 First Edition
Seller ID: 39907
Condition: 402pp, original blue highly decorative boards, professionally recased with new spine and original laid on, maps, illusts, some foxing, VG. A bright attractive copy.
Biography with chapters describing Greenland, the ice age, the Norwegian Greenland Expedition, 1888. View more info
By: Brogger W.C. & Rolfsen Nordahl
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co: 1896
Edition: 1896 First Edition
Seller ID: 33083
Condition: 402pp, original brown highly decorative boards, maps, illusts, corner tips worn, internally very clean, VG
Biography with chapters describing Greenland, the ice age, the Norwegian Greenland Expedition, 1888. View more info
By: Brogger W.C. & Rolfsen Nordahl
Price: £45.00
Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co: 1896
Edition: 1896 First Edition
Seller ID: 32867
Condition: 402pp, original blue highly decorative boards, professionally recased with new spine and original laid on, maps, illusts, inscription, some foxing occasionally heavy, VG-.
Biography with chapters describing Greenland, the ice age, the Norwegian Greenland Expedition, 1888. View more info
By: Brontman L.
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Gollancz: 1938
Edition: 1938 First Edition
Seller ID: 57556
Condition: 287pp, spine becoming detached, Poor
By: Brontman L.
Price: £11.00
Publisher: Gollancz: 1938
Edition: 1938 First Edition
Seller ID: 4909
Condition: 287pp, foreedge foxing, VG-
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Rough Guides Ltd: 1995
Edition: 1995 rep
Seller ID: 1623
Condition: paperback, Fine
Price: £130.00
Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co: 1923
Edition: 1923 First Edition
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. View more info
Price: £200.00
Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co: 1923
Edition: 1923 First Edition
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. View more info
Price: £475.00
Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co: 1923
Edition: 1923 First Edition
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. View more info
Price: £100.00
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company: 1924
Edition: 1924 First Edition US
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. View more info
Price: £185.00
Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co: 1923
Edition: 1923 First Edition
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. View more info
Price: £160.00
Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co: 1923
Edition: 1923 First Edition
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. View more info
Price: £240.00
Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co: 1923
Edition: 1923 First Edition
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. View more info
By: Bryan Rorke
Price: £24.00
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing: 2011
Edition: 2011 First Edition
Seller ID: 68730
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, ... View more info
By: Bryan Rorke
Price: £24.00
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing: 2011
Edition: 2011 First Edition
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, ... View more info
By: Bryce George
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Gibbings & Company: 1910
Edition: 1910 First Edition
Seller ID: 10024
Condition: 334pp, VG
By: Bryce George
Price: £17.00
Publisher: Gibbings & Company: 1910
Edition: 1910 First Edition
Seller ID: 5192
Condition: 334pp, worn patch to head of front board, spine titling faded otherwise G+
By: Bryce George
Price: £26.00
Publisher: Gibbings & Company: 1910
Edition: 1910 First Edition
Seller ID: 1700
Condition: 334pp, boards dull & rubbed so VG-, VG internally
By: Bull Colin
Price: £20.00
Publisher: University Of Alaska Press: 2009
Edition: 2009 First Edition
Seller ID: 56899
ISBN: 1602230714
Condition: 267pp, paperback, New.
A summer discovering parts of the Dry Valleys of Victoria Land. View more info
By: Bull H. J.
Price: £125.00
Publisher: The Paradigm Press / Bluntisham Books: 1984
Edition: 1984 reprint
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... View more info
By: Bull H. J.
Price: £125.00
Publisher: The Paradigm Press / Bluntisham Books: 1984
Edition: 1984 reprint
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.
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... View more info
By: Bull H. J.
Price: £695.00
Publisher: Edward Arnold: 1896
Edition: 1896 First Edition
Seller ID: 68000
Condition: 243pp, 32pp adverts, 12 illusts, original decorative blue boards, new spine with gilt titling, wear to corner tips, VG.
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... View more info
By: Bull H. J.
Price: £110.00
Publisher: The Paradigm Press / Bluntisham Books: 1984
Edition: 1984 reprint
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.
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... View more info
By: Butler Angie
Price: £38.00
Publisher: Jackleberry Press: 2011
Edition: 2011 First Edition
Seller ID: 68482
ISBN: 0956927203
Condition: 214pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper, 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. View more info
By: Butler Angie
Price: £19.00
Publisher: Jackleberry Press: 2019
Edition: 2019 reprint
Seller ID: 68505
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. View more info
By: Butler Angie
Price: £19.00
Publisher: Jackleberry Press: 2019
Edition: 2019 reprint
Seller ID: 68503
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. View more info
Price: £33.00
Publisher: Putnam: 1935
Edition: 1935 Second Edition US
Seller ID: 66843
Condition: xxi, 405pp, original blue boards, map endpapers, Fine in Good+ chipped dw. A lovely copy in an uncommon dustwrapper.
By: Cadell James
Price: £7.00
Publisher: Andre Deutsch: 1957
Edition: 1957
Seller ID: 1578
By: Calvert James F. Comdr. USN
Price: £12.00
Publisher: National Geographic Society: 1959
Edition: 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 View more info
By: Cameron Ian
Price: £7.00
Publisher: Cassell: 1974
Edition: 1974 First Edition
Seller ID: 64021
ISBN: 0304294160
Condition: 256pp, some spotting to boards, VG- in VG+ dw
History of Antarctic Explorations. View more info
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1992
Edition: 1992 Edition
Seller ID: 64032
ISBN: 043620049X
Condition: 308pp, yellowing to page edges, map endpapers, VG+ in VG+ dw
The Antarctic Peninsula, its plants and animals. View more info
Price: £19.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co: 1998
Edition: 1998 First Edition
Seller ID: 68476
ISBN: 0393046052
Condition: 256pp, VG in VG dw.
The unique account of one couple's life and adventures living all year round on South Georgia for five years. Superbly illustrated. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co: 1998
Edition: 1998 First Edition
Seller ID: 68791
ISBN: 0393046052
Condition: 256pp, small bump to head of spine, VG in VG dw, signed by Tim and Pauline Carr.
The unique account of one couple's life and adventures living all year round on South Georgia for five years. Superbly illustrated. View more info
By: Carrighar Sally
Price: £6.00
Publisher: Michael Joseph: 1959
Edition: 1959 First Edition
Seller ID: 57164
Condition: 317pp, foxing to foreedges and endpapers, VG+ in VG dw
Alaskan life with the local native people. View more info
Price: £17.00
Publisher: Chatto And Windus: 1934
Edition: 1934 Fourth Printing
Seller ID: 64584
Condition: 304pp, 32 plates, folding map, spine faded, boards faded and marked, Fair in colour photocopy of original dw.
A detailed account of the activities of the expedition, based near Angmagssalik, on the east coast of Greenland. Sledge and boat trips were undertaken, two across the icecap, three northward, one to the icecap station thirty miles west. It describes the establishment of the icecap station and five months work there, including the mapping and reconnaissance with the aid of an airplane, particularly the coast northward to Kangerdlugssuag and an attempt to climb Mount Forel. View more info
Price: £42.00
Publisher: Chatto And Windus: 1932
Edition: 1932 First Edition
Seller ID: 68891
Condition: 304pp, 64 plates, folding maps, original blue cloth, spine label a little worn to edges, light foreedge foxing, occasional light foxing elsewhere, VG+ in colour photocopy of original dw.
A detailed account of the activities of the expedition, based near Angmagssalik, on the east coast of Greenland. Sledge and boat trips were undertaken, two across the icecap, three northward, one to the icecap station thirty miles west. It describes the establishment of the icecap station and five months work there, including the mapping and reconnaissance with the aid of an airplane, particularly the coast northward to Kangerdlugssuag and an attempt to climb Mount Forel. View more info
Price: £33.00
Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Erskine Press: 2004
Edition: 2004 reprint
Seller ID: 65137
ISBN: 1852970626
Condition: 247pp, highly decorative boards, hardback, New. A beautifully produced reprint of the original French edition.
The first French expedition to the Antarctic set sail in August 1903 under the command of Jean-Baptiste Charcot. He had sailed the waterways of Europe until, in 1902, he visited Iceland and the Faroes. He reached the Arctic Circle and his taste for polar voyaging was established. On his return he commissioned a vessel to be built - Francais. By this stage, although an amateur, Charcot had become quite well known, though Scott referred to him—with possibly a touch of disparagement—as 'the polar gentleman'. In August 1903 he set sail. Charcot had designed the ship so that each man could have... View more info
Price: £33.00
Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Erskine Press: 2004
Edition: 2004 reprint
Seller ID: 63577
ISBN: 1852970626
Condition: 247pp, highly decorative boards, hardback, New. A beautifully produced reprint of the original French edition.
The first French expedition to the Antarctic set sail in August 1903 under the command of Jean-Baptiste Charcot. He had sailed the waterways of Europe until, in 1902, he visited Iceland and the Faroes. He reached the Arctic Circle and his taste for polar voyaging was established. On his return he commissioned a vessel to be built - Francais. By this stage, although an amateur, Charcot had become quite well known, though Scott referred to him—with possibly a touch of disparagement—as 'the polar gentleman'. In August 1903 he set sail. Charcot had designed the ship so that each man could have... View more info
By: Charles Graham, Jones Mark and Waters Marcus
Price: £32.00
Publisher: Penguin Group, NZ: 2007
Edition: 2007 First Edition NZ
Seller ID: 66518
ISBN: 0143007327
Condition: 144pp, large paperback, 23x26.5cm landscape, New, signed by Graham Charles.
Gripping account of one of the most extreme sea kayak expeditions ever undertaken - the first successful circumnavigation of South Georgia. Unclaimed Coast is an enthralling tale of triumph told by three men passionate about the environment and challenging themselves to the limit. The story covers each leg of their journey and dives into Sth Georgia’s fascinating history and as the island made famous by Sir Ernest Shackleton during his historic rescue journey in 1916. Stunning photography shows a pristine yet often treacherous environment teeming with wildlife. View more info
By: Charles Graham, Jones Mark and Waters Marcus
Price: £32.00
Publisher: Penguin Group, NZ: 2007
Edition: 2007 First Edition NZ
Seller ID: 66523
ISBN: 0143007327
Condition: 144pp, large paperback, 23x26.5cm landscape, New, signed by Graham Charles.
Gripping account of one of the most extreme sea kayak expeditions ever undertaken - the first successful circumnavigation of South Georgia. Unclaimed Coast is an enthralling tale of triumph told by three men passionate about the environment and challenging themselves to the limit. The story covers each leg of their journey and dives into Sth Georgia’s fascinating history and as the island made famous by Sir Ernest Shackleton during his historic rescue journey in 1916. Stunning photography shows a pristine yet often treacherous environment teeming with wildlife. View more info
Price: £8.00
Publisher: The Narrative Press: 2001
Edition: 2001 US reprint
Seller ID: 43942
ISBN: 1589761200
Condition: 665pp, paperback, VG.
Being an account of Scott's Last Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913, especially the Winter, Polar, and Search Journeys, with the diaries of those who took part. View more info
By: Chester Jonathan
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Grange: 1991
Edition: 1991 First Edition
Seller ID: 64271
ISBN: 1856270920
Condition: 136pp, VG+ in VG+ dw
Explorer, writer and photographer Jonathan Chester shares the knowledge gained from his seven expeditions to this alien continent, offering his insights on the nature of the land, its history and its future. View more info
By: Chester Sharon
Price: £21.00
Publisher: Princeton University Press: 2016
Edition: 2016 First Edition
Seller ID: 66645
ISBN: 069113975X
Condition: 542pp, softback, New.
A most authorative guide to the flora and fauna of the entire Arctic region, featuring superb colour illustrations of over 800 species of plants, fishes, butterflies, birds and mammals. View more info
By: Chubb Percy
Price: £34.00
Publisher: D. Van Nostrand Company for the Author: 1951
Edition: 1951 First Edition
Seller ID: 63942
Condition: 52pp, original cloth with gilt, VG+, signed dedication to front endpaper by Percy Chubb. Only 200 copies of the First Edition were printed.
Percy Chubb 2nd was a retired insurance executive and chairman of the insurance underwriters, Chubb & Son. He had served as president and chairman of the Federal Insurance Company, the National Insurance Company and the Sun Alliance Company. He was president of the American Institute of Marine Underwriters in 1956-57. For 25 years, until his retirement in 1971, he also was a member of the board of directors of the First National City Bank of New York, as Citibank was then known. Chubb was an active yachtsman and competed in trans-Atlantic competitions. He served as commodore of the New York Ya... View more info
By: Cleaver A.H. & Stann E. Jeffrey [Editors]
Price: £11.00
Publisher: Naval Institute Press: 1988
Edition: 1988 First Edition US
Seller ID: 53298
ISBN: 0870213008
Condition: 325pp, map endpapers, Fine in Fine dw.
William Reynolds set sail in 1838 with the U.S. Navy's first exploring expedition. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Odhams Press Ltd: 1963
Edition: 1963 First Edition
Seller ID: 62390
Condition: 255pp, marks to boards, Good in Good dw
A vivid account of the work of the Discovery II and other British vessels and of the officers and men who sailed them. View more info
By: Collier Graham & Collier Patricia Graham
Price: £7.00
Publisher: Robinson: 1999
Edition: 1999 First Edition
Seller ID: 64280
ISBN: 1841191043
Condition: 194pp, Fine in VG+ dw
Graham Collier's journeys capture the spirit of this only unhabited continent, the last great wilderness. View more info
