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By: Fleischer Jorgen
Price: £29.00
Publisher: Aschehoug Dansk Forlag: 2003
Edition: 2003 First Edition
Seller ID: 68869
ISBN: 8711162740
Condition: 70pp, pictorial hardback, Fine.
By: Fleischer Jorgen
Price: £29.00
Publisher: Aschehoug Dansk Forlag: 2003
Edition: 2003 First Edition
Seller ID: 68876
ISBN: 8711162740
Condition: 70pp, pictorial hardback, Fine.
Price: £7.00
Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts: 1956
Edition: 1956 First US Edition
Seller ID: 62368
Condition: 399pp, map endpapers, VG+ in VG- price clipped dw
The Autobiography of Archibald Fleming, first Bishop of the Arctic. View more info
By: Fleming Fergus
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Granta Books: 2001
Edition: 2001 First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 44448
ISBN: 1862074496
Condition: 470pp, Fine in Fine dw.
Drawing on unpublished archives and forgotten journals, Fleming tells the story of the North Pole with consummate craftmanship and wit. View more info
By: Fleming Fergus
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Granta Books: 2001
Edition: 2001 First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 64016
ISBN: 1862074496
Condition: 470pp, VG+ in VG+ dw.
Drawing on unpublished archives and forgotten journals, Fleming tells the story of the North Pole with consummate craftmanship and wit. View more info
By: Fletcher, Joseph
Price: £12.00
Publisher: National Geographic Society: 1956
Edition: 1956
Seller ID: 45063
Condition: 489 504pp, extract from the National Geographic Magazine April 1953, in green card cover, VG+
Floating on a Glacial Fragment, U.S. Air Force Scientists Probe Top-of-the-World Mysteries within 100 Miles of the Pole. View more info
By: Fletcher, Joseph
Price: £12.00
Publisher: National Geographic Society: 1956
Edition: 1956
Seller ID: 45062
Condition: 489 504pp, extract from the National Geographic Magazine April 1953, in green card cover, VG+
Floating on a Glacial Fragment, U.S. Air Force Scientists Probe Top-of-the-World Mysteries within 100 Miles of the Pole. View more info
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Cassell: 1990
Edition: 1990 reprint
Seller ID: 67342
ISBN: 030434107X
Condition: 224pp, paperback, VG.
It is in the interest of all mankind that Antarctica shall continue forever exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene or object of international discord - The Antarctic Treaty. View more info
By: Ford C. Reginald
Price: £27.00
Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2015
Edition: 2015 reprint
Seller ID: 65237
Condition: This item was First published by Whitcombe & Tombs as No.7 in the New Zealand Booklet Series, 1906. It is now presented in black gift box with the cover of the booklet laid on the lid. It is accompanied by a 12pp pamphlet of biographical details, newspaper articles and pictures, ‘Charles Reginald Ford 1880-1972: notes on an adventurous life' by Crispin de Boos; a coloured reproduction of 4pp advertisement for the graphic lecture 'Farthest South' presented by Ford in Australia; and two reproduction Antarctic postcards. Ford's booklet is 32pp, with 13 illustrations, the cover is linen-textured card. Only 400 copies have been produced.
This is probably the rarest of all first-hand accounts of Scott’s Discovery Expedition. Ford was a steward on the expedition and is notable mainly for being the first man to break his leg skiing in the Antarctic. Upon the Expedition's return Ford acted as Scott's secretary during the leader's lecture tour. Some of his photographs were used by Scott in The Voyages of the 'Discovery'. He moved to New Zealand in 1906 and began to study architecture and later became a partner in one of that country's most prestigious firms. Antarctica was published privately in 1908 and this is a facsimile of hi... View more info
By: Ford C. Reginald
Price: £27.00
Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2015
Edition: 2015 reprint
Seller ID: 65242
Condition: This item was First published by Whitcombe & Tombs as No.7 in the New Zealand Booklet Series, 1906. It is now presented in black gift box with the cover of the booklet laid on the lid. It is accompanied by a 12pp pamphlet of biographical details, newspaper articles and pictures, ‘Charles Reginald Ford 1880-1972: notes on an adventurous life' by Crispin de Boos; a coloured reproduction of 4pp advertisement for the graphic lecture 'Farthest South' presented by Ford in Australia; and two reproduction Antarctic postcards. Ford's booklet is 32pp, with 13 illustrations, the cover is linen-textured card. Only 400 copies have been produced.
This is probably the rarest of all first-hand accounts of Scott’s Discovery Expedition. Ford was a steward on the expedition and is notable mainly for being the first man to break his leg skiing in the Antarctic. Upon the Expedition's return Ford acted as Scott's secretary during the leader's lecture tour. Some of his photographs were used by Scott in The Voyages of the 'Discovery'. He moved to New Zealand in 1906 and began to study architecture and later became a partner in one of that country's most prestigious firms. Antarctica was published privately in 1908 and this is a facsimile of hi... View more info
By: Ford C. Reginald
Price: £27.00
Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2015
Edition: 2015 reprint
Seller ID: 65243
Condition: This item was First published by Whitcombe & Tombs as No.7 in the New Zealand Booklet Series, 1906. It is now presented in black gift box with the cover of the booklet laid on the lid. It is accompanied by a 12pp pamphlet of biographical details, newspaper articles and pictures, ‘Charles Reginald Ford 1880-1972: notes on an adventurous life' by Crispin de Boos; a coloured reproduction of 4pp advertisement for the graphic lecture 'Farthest South' presented by Ford in Australia; and two reproduction Antarctic postcards. Ford's booklet is 32pp, with 13 illustrations, the cover is linen-textured card. Only 400 copies have been produced.
This is probably the rarest of all first-hand accounts of Scott’s Discovery Expedition. Ford was a steward on the expedition and is notable mainly for being the first man to break his leg skiing in the Antarctic. Upon the Expedition's return Ford acted as Scott's secretary during the leader's lecture tour. Some of his photographs were used by Scott in The Voyages of the 'Discovery'. He moved to New Zealand in 1906 and began to study architecture and later became a partner in one of that country's most prestigious firms. Antarctica was published privately in 1908 and this is a facsimile of hi... View more info
Price: £8.00
Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2016
Edition: 2016
Seller ID: 63604
Condition: 4pp, New.
A coloured reproduction of 4pp, 29x22cm, advertisement for the graphic lecture 'Farthest South' presented by Ford in Australia and promoted by J.C. Williamson. View more info
Price: £5.00
Publisher: BBC Books: 1993
Edition: 1993 First Edition
Seller ID: 64263
ISBN: 9563364319
Condition: 224pp, Fine in Fine dw
A natural history of the Antarctic, superbly illustrated. View more info
By: Fox Robert
Price: £6.00
Publisher: BBC Books: 1985
Edition: 1985 First Edition
Seller ID: 64036
ISBN: 0563203323
Condition: 336pp, private bookplate, VG+ in Fine dw
By: Francis Daniel
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Tops'l Books: 1984
Edition: 1984 First Edition
Seller ID: 57659
ISBN: 090639712X
Condition: 117pp, card covers, small mark on rear endpaper, VG
The book is a wonderful history of an era, of people, and of whales. View more info
By: Francis Daniel
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Tops'l Books: 1984
Edition: 1984 First Edition
Seller ID: 64183
ISBN: 090639712X
Condition: 117pp, card covers, light foxing to foreedges, VG
The book is a wonderful history of an era, of people, and of whales. View more info
By: Francis Gavin
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Polygon: 2008
Edition: 2008 First Edition
Seller ID: 62618
ISBN: 1846970784
Condition: 266pp, paperback, VG+
In a compelling blend of travel writing, history and mythology, Gavin Francis offers this unique portrait of the northern fringes of Europe. View more info
By: Freuchen Peter
Price: £12.00
Publisher: William Heinemannn Ltd: 1936
Edition: 1936 First Edition
Seller ID: 52691
Condition: 405pp, cloth splitting to edge of spine, corner tips worn, internally clean and complete, Fair.
Account of the author’s experiences as a member of the Danmark Expedition to East Greenland, 1906-07, and the events leading to the establishment of the Thule mission and trading post in northwest Greenland by Knud Rasmussen in 1910. Illustrated with photographs and maps. View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Metheun Publishers: 1937
Edition: 1937 First Edition
Seller ID: 55273
Condition: 365pp, 48 plates, 22 maps, original blue cloth, spine cloth speckled and faded, owner's signature, foxing to endpapers, very clean internally, Good+ in colour photocopy of original dw.
Narrative of an expedition of ten members under A. R. Glen to North-East Land, Svalbard, to investigate weather conditions on inland ice, also problems connected with the age, thickness and physical condition of the icecap. View more info
Price: £14.00
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's: 1934
Edition: 1934 First Edition
Seller ID: 1490
Condition: light foreedge foxing, VG
Price: £6.00
Publisher: Priory Press: 1969
Edition: 1969 First Edition
Seller ID: 32944
Condition: 74pp, VG in VG dw.
A woman's journey to Antarctica. View more info
By: Goodlad James A
Price: £65.00
Publisher: Royal Scottish Geographical Society: 2003
Edition: 2003 First Edition
Seller ID: 61736
ISBN: 0904049043
Condition: 118pp, paperback, ring binder, near Fine, signed by James Goodlad. A scarce item.
Produced to celebrate the achievements of the Scottish oceanographer and polar explorer William Speirs Bruce and to mark the centenary of the voyage of S.Y. Scotia, the research ship of Bruce's Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04. View more info
By: Goodlad James A
Price: £65.00
Publisher: Royal Scottish Geographical Society: 2003
Edition: 2003 First Edition
Seller ID: 63483
ISBN: 0904049043
Condition: 118pp, paperback, ring binder, VG+, signed by James Goodlad. A scarce item.
Produced to celebrate the achievements of the Scottish oceanographer and polar explorer William Speirs Bruce and to mark the centenary of the voyage of S.Y. Scotia, the research ship of Bruce's Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04. View more info
By: Goodlad James A.
Price: £65.00
Publisher: Royal Scottish Geographical Society: 2003
Edition: 2003 First Edition
Seller ID: 63499
ISBN: 0904049043
Condition: 118pp, paperback, ring binder, VG+, signed by James Goodlad. A scarce item.
Produced to celebrate the achievements of the Scottish oceanographer and polar explorer William Speirs Bruce and to mark the centenary of the voyage of S.Y. Scotia, the research ship of Bruce's Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04. View more info
By: Goodlad James A.
Price: £62.00
Publisher: Royal Scottish Geographical Society: 2003
Edition: 2003 First Edition
Seller ID: 63501
ISBN: 0904049043
Condition: 118pp, paperback, ring binder, near Fine. A scarce item.
Produced to celebrate the achievements of the Scottish oceanographer and polar explorer William Speirs Bruce and to mark the centenary of the voyage of S.Y. Scotia, the research ship of Bruce's Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04. View more info
By: Greeley Adolphus Washington
Price: £130.00
Publisher: 1893
Edition: 1893
Seller ID: 56248
Condition: 4pp, just one side has manuscript, letter dated 1893, 'Washington DC Apr, 13, 1893. Dear Sir, My mother was a Cobb, a daughter of Samuel, and G.D. of Andrew of Gorham, Me. Are you of the Maine branch or do you know anything of that branch? Yours truly A. W. Greely. Mr John N. Cobb'. VG condition.
Adolphus Washington Greely, 1844-1935, a United States Army Officer and a recipient of the Medal of Honor, and famous Arctic explorer. View more info
By: Greely A. W.
Price: £17.00
Publisher: George G. Harrap: 1929
Edition: 1929 First Edition
Seller ID: 2350
Condition: 216pp, boards G+, a few light marks to boards, one plate resecured another tender, internally very clean
Comprehensive survey of polar exploration. View more info
By: Green Bill
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press: 2008
Edition: 2008 First US Edition
Seller ID: 64009
ISBN: 1934137081
Condition: 271pp, paperback, VG+ copy
The Author has been conducting research in Antarctica since 1968. View more info
By: Gregson Jim
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing: 2012
Edition: 2012 First Edition
Seller ID: 65410
ISBN: 1906148090
Condition: 146pp, pictorial boards, New. signed by Jim Gregson.
Twenty years of adventure mountaineering in the great Arctic wilderness. View more info
By: Gregson Jim
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing: 2012
Edition: 2012 First Edition
Seller ID: 65411
ISBN: 1906148090
Condition: 146pp, pictorial boards, New. signed by Jim Gregson.
Twenty years of adventure mountaineering in the great Arctic wilderness. View more info
Price: £14.00
Publisher: National Geographic Society: 1953
Edition: 1953
Seller ID: 45073
Condition: 469-484pp, extract from the National Geographic Magazine October 1953 in green card covers, VG+
By: Guðmundsson Ari Trausti & Kjartansson Halldor
Price: £85.00
Publisher: Vaka - Helgafell: 1996
Edition: 1996 First Edition
Seller ID: 58349
ISBN: 9979203463
Condition: 166pp, pictorial boards, Fine copy
The book holds the answers to most questions asked concerning the geology of Iceland. View more info
By: Gurney Alan
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Pimlico: 1998
Edition: 1998 First Edition
Seller ID: 64058
ISBN: 0712673296
Condition: 315pp, paperback, VG+ copy
Voyages towards Antarctica 1699-1839 View more info
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Airlife Publishing: 1988
Edition: 1988 First Edition
Seller ID: 57532
ISBN: 1853100064
Condition: 357pp, map endpapers, Fine in Fine dw
Leonard Guttridge's skilful recreation of the Jeannett's drama allows us to finally appreciate the gallant struggles of these men who paved the way for Robert Peary's successful quest for the pole in 1909. View more info
Price: £32.00
Publisher: IK Foundation & Co Ltd: 2006
Edition: 2006 First Edition
Seller ID: 68184
ISBN: 1904145094
Condition: 414pp, hardback, Fine in Fine dustwrapper, small bump to top rear corner, signed on the half title by the author, Dag Hagenaes-Kjelldahl. This is a new copy.
A personal account. View more info
Price: £32.00
Publisher: IK Foundation & Co Ltd: 2006
Edition: 2006 First Edition
Seller ID: 68186
ISBN: 1904145094
Condition: 414pp, hardback, Fine in Fine dustwrapper, signed on the half title by the author, Dag Hagenaes-Kjelldahl. This is a new copy.
A personal account. View more info
By: Halle Louis J.
Price: £6.00
Publisher: Michael Joseph: 1974
Edition: 1974 First Edition
Seller ID: 62349
ISBN: 0718112415
Condition: 286pp, map endpapers, VG in VG price clipped dw
This is a naturalist's book, enhanced by the author's knowledge of the history, geography, and exploration of the area. View more info
Price: £34.00
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press: 2019
Edition: 2019 First Edition
Seller ID: 68799
ISBN: 8763545543
Condition: 96pp, paperback, New, signed by Geoffrey Halliday.
Prior to 1963 virtually all our knowledge of the flora of south-east Greenland had been gained at low altitudes. However, that year saw the first of seventeen European mountaineering expeditions to the region covered in this volume. Their members rarely had any botanical expertise, but the author was able to persuade most to make collections and record the altitude. This resulted in 111 collections from altitudes of up to 2480 m. This, in Schweizerland, is probably the highest altitude for vascular plants in the Arctic. The region was divided into northern and southern halves, 100 species bein... View more info
By: Halliday Geoffrey & Corner R. W. N.
Price: £28.00
Publisher: Trollius Publications: 2019
Edition: 2019 First Edition
Seller ID: 68792
ISBN: 0953971872
Condition: 280pp, 106 colour plates, 7 colour figures, 3 b&w figures, 245 b&w distribution maps, 5 watercolour sketches, 1 b&w photo, large paperback, New, signed by Geoffrey Halliday.
This fjord region occupies the middle third of Greenland’s east coast. It extends for nearly 500 miles from north to south and from 100 miles east to west, from the inland ice to the outer coast. With its rich flora, by arctic standards, its superb mountain scenery and benign summer climate it is a popular destination for arctic botanists, climbers and general lovers of the Arctic. The book includes distribution maps of 245 species based on 170 visits by expeditions and individuals since William Scoresby in 1822. The main part of the book is the accounts of individual species, which include ... View more info
By: Halliday Geoffrey & Corner R. W. N.
Price: £28.00
Publisher: Trollius Publications: 2019
Edition: 2019 First Edition
Seller ID: 68795
ISBN: 0953971872
Condition: 280pp, 106 colour plates, 7 colour figures, 3 b&w figures, 245 b&w distribution maps, 5 watercolour sketches, 1 b&w photo, large paperback, New, signed by Geoffrey Halliday.
This fjord region occupies the middle third of Greenland’s east coast. It extends for nearly 500 miles from north to south and from 100 miles east to west, from the inland ice to the outer coast. With its rich flora, by arctic standards, its superb mountain scenery and benign summer climate it is a popular destination for arctic botanists, climbers and general lovers of the Arctic. The book includes distribution maps of 245 species based on 170 visits by expeditions and individuals since William Scoresby in 1822. The main part of the book is the accounts of individual species, which include ... View more info
By: Hartwig Dr. G.
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Longmans, Green And Co: 1892
Edition: 1892 Second Edition
Seller ID: 57358
Condition: xviii, 523pp, + Map, original highly decorative boards, t.e.g., owner's ink stamp and signature, wear to head of spine, VG. A tight attractive copy.
By: Hayes J. Gordon
Price: £16.00
Publisher: Grant Richards & Humphrey Toulmin:
Edition: Circa 1929
Seller ID: 47438
Condition: 299pp, t.e.g., spine faded, VG
Complete with maps View more info
By: Hayes J. Gordon
Price: £14.00
Publisher: Thornton Butterworth: 1932
Edition: 1932 First Edition
Seller ID: 44540
Condition: 318pp, original green cloth, spine faded with wear, private bookplate, 2 plates lacking, Good.
By: Hayes J. Gordon
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Thornton Butterworth: 1937
Edition: 1937 Keystone Library Edition
Seller ID: 57354
Condition: 317pp, original green cloth, VG+. A lovely copy.
Contains an account of expeditions, 1909-34, and of the Danish Expedition, 1906-08, under Mylius-Ericksen. View more info
By: Hayes J. Gordon
Price: £26.00
Publisher: Thornton Butterworth: 1934
Edition: 1934 First Edition
Seller ID: 68882
Condition: 318pp, 22 illusts, 11 maps and diagrams, 3 folding, original green cloth, owner's signature, light foxing to half title page, VG.
A summary of Arctic exploration 1909-1934. View more info
By: Hayter Adrian
Price: £9.00
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1968
Edition: 1968 First Edition
Seller ID: 64011
ISBN: 340044802
Condition: 191pp, map endpapers, light foxing to foreedges, VG in VG dw
One year at Scott Base, Antarctica. View more info
By: Headland R. K.
Price: £52.00
Publisher: The British Antarctic Survey: 1982
Edition: 1982 First Edition
Seller ID: 66429
ISBN: 0856650951
Condition: 180pp, card covers, Fine.
A fantastic reference. View more info
By: Headland R. K.
Price: £52.00
Publisher: The British Antarctic Survey: 1982
Edition: 1982 First Edition
Seller ID: 56127
ISBN: 0856650951
Condition: 180pp, card covers, near Fine.
A fantastic reference. View more info
By: Headland R.K.
Price: £17.00
Publisher: British Antarctic Survey: 1982
Edition: 1982 First Edition
Seller ID: 58564
Condition: 28pp plus two sided addendum and map, A4 size card covers, VG+.
A study of the natural resources and wildlife of South Georgia. View more info
By: Headland Robert
Price: £36.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1986
Edition: 1986 reprint
Seller ID: 59233
ISBN: 0521252741
Condition: 293pp, some slight bumping to bottom of boards and bottom corners, VG in VG dw.
The history, geography, geology, biology, economy and government of South Georgia. A very scarce book despite its youth. View more info
