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By: Mott Peter
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Peter Mott: 1986
Edition: 1986 First Edition
Seller ID: 66604
ISBN: 0951169904
Condition: 167pp, card cover, New
More than a quarter of a century before the Falklands War took place, the dispute with Argentina and Chile over sovereignty of the Falklands and the British Dependencies in Antarctica had underlined the need for accurate maps. Consequently in 1955 the Government decided to fund a special expedition to undertake air photography and land-based control of Grahamland, now referred to as the Antarctic Peninsula. Peter Mott was assigned to organise and lead the expedition, which ultimately surveyed 35,000 square miles of hitherto unmapped territory. View more info
By: Mott Peter
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Peter Mott: 1986
Edition: 1986 First Edition
Seller ID: 66606
ISBN: 0951169904
Condition: 167pp, card cover, New
More than a quarter of a century before the Falklands War took place, the dispute with Argentina and Chile over sovereignty of the Falklands and the British Dependencies in Antarctica had underlined the need for accurate maps. Consequently in 1955 the Government decided to fund a special expedition to undertake air photography and land-based control of Grahamland, now referred to as the Antarctic Peninsula. Peter Mott was assigned to organise and lead the expedition, which ultimately surveyed 35,000 square miles of hitherto unmapped territory. View more info
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Collins: 1961
Edition: 1961 Impression
Seller ID: 58120
Condition: 284pp + Map, sunning to spine, Good+
It is written more particularly for the younger generation. View more info
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Collins: 1956
Edition: 1956 Edition
Seller ID: 57555
Condition: 284pp, VG+ in VG dw
It is written more particularly for the younger generation. View more info
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Staples Press Ltd: 1957
Edition: 1957 First Edition
Seller ID: 64007
Condition: 173pp, map endpapers, owner's signature, Good+ in Fair dw
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Lutterworth Press: 1950
Edition: 1950 Second Imp
Seller ID: 64006
Condition: 172pp, light sunning to very top of boards, map endpapers, VG in Good dw.
The book is an inspiring story of men fighting the elements for the sake of scientific investigation and hazardous adventure. Illustrated with twenty-three pages of superb photographs and three detailed maps. View more info
By: Mountfield David
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Hamlyn: 1974
Edition: 1974 First Edition
Seller ID: 53147
ISBN: 0600344185
Condition: 208pp, map endpapers, light sunning to very edges of boards, VG in VG price clipped dw
By: Mountfield David
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Hamlyn: 1974
Edition: 1974 First Edition
Seller ID: 64251
ISBN: 0600344185
Condition: 208pp, map endpapers, light sunning to very tip of boards, small bump to base of spine, VG in VG price clipped dw
By: Mowat Fraley
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Readers Union: 1974
Edition: 1974 reprint
Seller ID: 64188
Condition: 239pp, VG+ in VG+ dw
Price: £125.00
Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Paradigm Press: 1984
Edition: 1984 reprint
Seller ID: 63172
ISBN: 0950610461
Condition: 364pp, original highly decorative cloth, small owner's signature, Fine.
Includes intro by D.W. Walton and a chapter by W.S. Bruce, naturalist of the Barque 'Balaena'. A most attractive reprint retaining much of the character and style of the First Edition. View more info
Price: £460.00
Publisher: Longmans, Green And Co: 1894
Edition: 1894 First Edition
Seller ID: 66999
Condition: xi, 364pp, plus adverts, original decorative cloth, professionally recased, new spine with original laid on, new endpapers, light foxing, heavier foxing to first few pages, VG. An attractive strong copy.
Murdoch heard about the expedition from William Speirs Bruce, who had already signed on the expedition. Murdoch signed on the Balaena within a week of its departure. He believed that his artistic talents would benefit the scientists, he became not only the artist but also the expedition’s principal chronicler. His narrative covers the voyage south at great length, providing a fascinating picture of shipboard life. The Falkland Islands account is well detailed, and the Antarctic section of the narrative contains astute observations of the wildlife and sealing operations. Bruce contributed a c... View more info
Price: £535.00
Publisher: Longmans, Green And Co: 1894
Edition: 1894 First Edition
Seller ID: 68705
Condition: xi, 364pp, plus adverts, original decorative cloth, corner tips rounded, one corner worn, darkened area to rear board, prize bookplate, faint water mark to head of first few pages, internally very clean, VG. An attractive strong copy.
Murdoch heard about the expedition from William Speirs Bruce, who had already signed on the expedition. Murdoch signed on the Balaena within a week of its departure. He believed that his artistic talents would benefit the scientists, he became not only the artist but also the expedition’s principal chronicler. His narrative covers the voyage south at great length, providing a fascinating picture of shipboard life. The Falkland Islands account is well detailed, and the Antarctic section of the narrative contains astute observations of the wildlife and sealing operations. Bruce contributed a c... View more info
By: Murray James & Marston George
Price: £50.00
Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2012
Edition: 2012 reprint
Seller ID: 65231
ISBN: 1852971142
Condition: 199pp, 4 colour illusts, 37 black and white illusts, original decorative boards, hardback, New in dustwrapper which closely matches the original. A facsimile Limited Edition of 280 individually numbered copies. Superbly produced to capture the character and quality of the original Deluxe Edition published in 1913 which was also of 280 copies.
Antarctic Days is a fine complement to the other two significant titles relating to Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition of 1907-9, 'The Heart of the Antarctic' and 'Aurora Australis', and is one of the most sought after Antarctic titles. James Murray was the biologist in charge of base camp and George Marston was the expedition artist. The two authors spin yarns of personal and human experiences of the expedition with gentle humour and a gift of storytelling. View more info
By: Murray James & Marston George
Price: £50.00
Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2012
Edition: 2012 reprint
Seller ID: 55721
ISBN: 1852971142
Condition: 199pp, 4 colour illusts, 37 black and white illusts, original decorative boards, hardback, New in dustwrapper which closely matches the original. A facsimile Limited Edition of 280 individually numbered copies. Superbly produced to capture the character and quality of the original Deluxe Edition published in 1913 which was also of 280 copies.
Antarctic Days is a fine complement to the other two significant titles relating to Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition of 1907-9, 'The Heart of the Antarctic' and 'Aurora Australis', and is one of the most sought after Antarctic titles. James Murray was the biologist in charge of base camp and George Marston was the expedition artist. The two authors spin yarns of personal and human experiences of the expedition with gentle humour and a gift of storytelling. View more info
By: Nansen Fridtjof
Price: £65.00
Publisher: William Heinemann: 1914
Edition: 1914 First Edition
Seller ID: 42097
Condition: 478pp, later quarter leather, exlibrary, owner's signature, whilst exlibrary it has very few marks and is very clean indeed, VG
Nansen was looking for a new route via the Kara Sea with a view to improving access to the various resources of Siberia for the benefit of Western Europe. View more info
By: Nansen Fridtjof
Price: £7.00
Publisher: Birlinn: 2002
Edition: 2002 Edition
Seller ID: 62604
ISBN: 1841582174
Condition: 527pp, paperback, small tear to top of spine, VG.
Being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship Fram, 1893-96, and of a fifteen months sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram. View more info
By: Nansen Fridtjof
Price: £50.00
Publisher: George Newnes: 1898
Edition: 1898 Second Edition
Seller ID: 66768
Condition: 480pp, 456pp, folding map, half blue leather bindings, light wear to extremities, owner's signature, foxing to endpapers, VG.
By: Nansen Fridtjof
Price: £70.00
Publisher: George Newnes: 1898
Edition: 1898 Second Edition
Seller ID: 66709
Condition: 480pp, 456pp, original highly decorative boards, bevelled edges, new endpapers, slight slant to Vol II, some water marking to rear boards and the edge of one spine but not offensive, VG-.
By: Nansen Fridtjof
Price: £40.00
Publisher: George Newnes: 1898
Edition: 1898 Second Edition
Seller ID: 53107
Condition: 480pp, 456pp, half brown leather with raised bands, marbled foreedges, first signs of splitting to edge of spine on Volume 1, owner's signature, light foxing to a few pages, Good+.
By: Nansen Fridtjof
Price: £9.00
Publisher: George Newnes: 1898
Edition: 1898 Second Edition
Seller ID: 41024
Condition: 480pp, 456pp, Volume 1 - lacking pages xiv, 1 & 2, lacking coloured plate and folding map, inscription, binding worn and boards detached. Volume 2 - some pages stuck together and crudely separated, some rippling to base of pages due to previous water damage, binding worn and boards detached, Poor. An incomplete reading copy only.
By: Nansen Fridtjof
Price: £85.00
Publisher: Archibald Constable And Company: 1897
Edition: 1897 First Edition
Seller ID: 57366
Condition: 510pp, 670pp, 16 coloured plates, 120 full page illustrations, numerous text illustrations, 4 folding maps, in plain green cloth with gilt titling, one illustration lacking, private bookplates, occasional light foxing, near VG.
Price: £550.00
Publisher: John Murray: 1876
Edition: 1876 First Edition
Seller ID: 48756
Condition: 96pp, beautiful new half leather binding with marbled boards, small library ink stamps, some soiling to many pages and occasional foxing, lacking the frontispiece map, internally Good. A most attractive binding. A very scarce title indeed.
Official report to the Admiralty, this is the first published account of the arctic expedition led by Captain George Nares in the ships Alert and Discovery. View more info
By: Naske Claus-M, & Slotnick Herman E.
Price: £8.00
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press: 1994
Edition: 1994 Second Edition
Seller ID: 58106
ISBN: 080612573X
Condition: 349pp, paperback, Fine copy.
The largest by far of the fifty states, Alaska is also the one of greatest mystery and diversity. Geological forces have made its more than half million square miles a region of breathtaking beauty and awesome contrasts. View more info
By: Neider Charles
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Sierra Club Books: 1980
Edition: 1980 First US Edition
Seller ID: 64043
ISBN: 0871562332
Condition: 387pp, map endpapers, small bump to top corner of front board, VG in Good+dw with some rubbing
By: Neider Charles
Price: £5.00
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin: 1973
Edition: 1973 First Edition
Seller ID: 64010
ISBN: 0049100521
Condition: 464pp, map endpapers, light foxing to foreedges, VG in VG dw
Price: £39.00
Publisher: Polar Publications: 1990
Edition: 1990 First Edition
Seller ID: 59449
ISBN: 0473009692
Condition: 144pp, Fine in Fine dw.
Mackintosh became one of the close circle of Shackleton's friends and followers who gave unstinted support and service to their leader. He died on the sea ice in 1916 while leader of the Ross Sea party of Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. View more info
Price: £39.00
Publisher: Polar Publications: 1990
Edition: 1990 First Edition
Seller ID: 57775
ISBN: 0473009692
Condition: 144pp, Fine in Fine dw.
Mackintosh became one of the close circle of Shackleton's friends and followers who gave unstinted support and service to their leader. He died on the sea ice in 1916 while leader of the Ross Sea party of Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. View more info
By: Niven Jennifer
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Macmillan Books: 2000
Edition: 2000 First Edition
Seller ID: 62109
ISBN: 0333770606
Condition: 402pp, Fine in VG+ dw
The doomed 1913 voyage of the Karluk View more info
Price: £55.00
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., London: 1881
Edition: 1881 First Edition
Seller ID: 58990
Condition: xxv, 524pp, 5 steel portraits, numerous maps some folding, 166 woodcuts, original decorative green cloth, for repair
Narrative of the Vega Expedition, 1878-1880, led by Nordenskiold, for the purpose of proving the Northeast passage navigable by steamship and of doing research in the geography, hydrography, geology and history of the Siberian arctic regions. View more info
By: Ogilvie M.A
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Praeger: 1976
Edition: 1976 First US Edition
Seller ID: 62376
ISBN: 0275226301
Condition: 224pp, Good+ in Good dw with repair
Illustrated with 32 beautiful and dramatic photographs in full colour. View more info
By: Olafsson Eggert & Palsson Bjarni
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Bokautgafan Orn og Orlygur: 1975
Edition: 1975 reprint
Seller ID: 63234
Condition: 186pp, original brown cloth with gilt in attractive decorative slipcase, VG+.
Containing observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, a description of the lakes, rivers, glaciers, hot-springs and volcanoes; of the various kinds of earths, stones, fossils and petrifications; as well as of the animals, insects and fishes. Eggert Ólafsson (1726-1768) and Bjarni Pálsson (1719-1779) received a special grant from the Danish government to travel around Iceland for five years from 1752 in order to investigate natural phenomena, describe the general condition of the inhabitants, and make proposals as to how best to improve their condition of life. Their findings... View more info
By: Ommanney F.D.
Price: £2.00
Publisher: Longmans: 1965
Edition: 1965 reprint
Seller ID: 41042
Condition: 308pp, exlibrary, usual markings, a reading copy only in dw.
By: Ommanney F.D.
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Longmans: 1947
Edition: 1947 reprint
Seller ID: 62363
Condition: 309pp, owner's signature, Good+ in Poor dw
South Latitude is a purely personal account of life in the Antarctic, among whalers in South Georgia, and on board the Royal Research Ship Discovery II View more info
By: Ostling Brutus & Akesson Susanne
Price: £11.00
Publisher: Collins: 2007
Edition: 2007 First Edition
Seller ID: 62496
ISBN: 0007800975
Condition: 191pp, Fine in VG+ dw
By: Owen Russell
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Museum Press: 1948
Edition: 1948 First Edition
Seller ID: 41035
Condition: 225pp, a little sunning to edge of boards, VG. A nice clean copy. No dustwrapper.
A history of exploration in Antarctica. View more info
By: Owen Russell
Price: £2.00
Publisher: Museum Press: 1948
Edition: 1948 First Edition
Seller ID: 37821
Condition: 225pp, foxing to spine and covers, Good+, no dustwrapper
A history of exploration in Antarctica. View more info
By: Owen Russell
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Museum Press: 1948
Edition: 1948 First Edition
Seller ID: 64061
Condition: 225pp, map endpapers, light foreedge foxing, VG in Fair dw
A history of exploration in Antarctica. View more info
By: Palin Michael
Price: £2.00
Publisher: BBC Books: 1992
Edition: 1992 rep
Seller ID: 48737
ISBN: 0563362839
Condition: 320pp, inscription, Fine in VG+ dw
Palin and team cross seven countries by train on their polar journey. View more info
By: Pape Richard
Price: £9.00
Publisher: Odhams Press: 1960
Edition: 1960 First Edition
Seller ID: 64062
Condition: 256pp, map endpapers, watermark to base of boards, foreedge foxing, page edges dusty, Good in Good dw
By: Parfit Michael
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury: 1988
Edition: 1988 First Edition
Seller ID: 64269
ISBN: 0747501343
Condition: 306pp, VG+ in VG+ dw
Narrative of the community and wildlife of the Antarctic. View more info
Price: £115.00
Publisher: Greenwood Press: 1968
Edition: 1968 US rep
Seller ID: 49504
Condition: xxix, 310pp, clxxix, plus xii, 132pp of the North Georgia Gazette and Winter Chronicle, original brown cloth, a Fine copy. A scarce quality reprint.
The Hecla and Griper, May 1819 - October 1820, sailed up Baffin Bay, through Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait to the south side of Melville Island where they wintered and returned to England by the same route the following year. The expedition discovered and penetrated a short distance into Prince Regent's Inlet, discovered Banks Island, and surveyed the south shores of Barrow Strait. View more info
Price: £105.00
Publisher: Greenwood Press: 1969
Edition: 1969 US rep
Seller ID: 49503
ISBN: 837114489
Condition: xxx, 571pp, maps, panoramas, a Fine copy. A scarce quality reprint.
Parry sailed through Hudson and Frozen Straits, explored Repulse Bay and on to Lyon Inlet. After wintering at Winter Island he sailed northward discovering Fury and Hecla Strait and spent the second winter at Igloolik. The deteriorating health of his crew forced him to return home in October 1823. Parry's journey gives a detailed account of the voyage and explorations along the coasts of northeastern Melville Peninsula and southern Cockburn Land. View more info
Price: £110.00
Publisher: Greenwood Press: 1968
Edition: 1968 US rep
Seller ID: 63182
Condition: xxix, 310pp, clxxix, plus xii, 132pp of the North Georgia Gazette and Winter Chronicle, original brown cloth, light foreedge foxing, VG+. A scarce quality reprint.
The Hecla and Griper, May 1819 - October 1820, sailed up Baffin Bay, through Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait to the south side of Melville Island where they wintered and returned to England by the same route the following year. The expedition discovered and penetrated a short distance into Prince Regent's Inlet, discovered Banks Island, and surveyed the south shores of Barrow Strait. View more info
Price: £100.00
Publisher: Greenwood Press: 1969
Edition: 1969 US rep
Seller ID: 63183
ISBN: 837114489
Condition: xxx, 571pp, maps, panoramas, one folding map has tear repaired, VG+. A scarce quality reprint.
Parry sailed through Hudson and Frozen Straits, explored Repulse Bay and on to Lyon Inlet. After wintering at Winter Island he sailed northward discovering Fury and Hecla Strait and spent the second winter at Igloolik. The deteriorating health of his crew forced him to return home in October 1823. Parry's journey gives a detailed account of the voyage and explorations along the coasts of northeastern Melville Peninsula and southern Cockburn Land. View more info
Price: £75.00
Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts: 1858
Edition: 1858 Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 48754
Condition: xvi, 365pp, coloured map, mint new blue cloth binding with paper spine label, university ink stamps, edge of frontispiece a bit ragged, light soiling to pages, page edges dusty, internally near VG.
First published in 1857. A chronicle by his son of Parry's life, 1790-1855. Includes his trip to Bear Island 1812, and expeditions to the Canadian Arctic in 1818, 1819-20, 1821-23 and 1824-25. Based on published narratives and on Parry's unpublished journals and letters to relatives. View more info
By: Peach L. Du Gare
Price: £6.00
Publisher: Ladybird Books: 1963
Edition: 1963 Edition
Seller ID: 48890
Condition: 50pp, pictorial boards, maps to endpapers, VG
Children's book. View more info
By: Peary R.E.
Price: £170.00
Publisher: Methuen & Co: 1898
Edition: 1898 First Edition
Seller ID: 68029
Condition: 521pp, 625pp, maps diagrams, approx 800 illusts, original decorative boards, professionally recased with new spines and original cloth laid on, light wear to extremities, corner tips worn, one plate has margins trimmed, VG.
A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891-1897. View more info
By: Peary Robert E.
Price: £29.00
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1910
Edition: 1910 First Edition
Seller ID: 57458
Condition: 326pp, 116 illusts, exlibrary, rebound in a strong plain green cloth binding with gilt titling to spine, binding is bright and clean, internally near fine, small ink stamps to margin of plates, lacking the folding map at the rear otherwise complete with all plates and illustrations, Good.
Peary's last expedition 1908-09, the voyage of the 'Roosevelt' through the ice of Smith Sound-Robeson Channel to winter quarters at Camp Jesup, Cape Sheridan on Ellesmere Island. Hunting, sledging and the final march to the Pole. View more info
By: Peary Robert E.
Price: £45.00
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1910
Edition: 1910 First Edition
Seller ID: 53171
Condition: 326pp, 116 illusts, original decorative boards, head of spine worn, a few blemishes to front board, cracking to endpapers, Good.
Peary's last expedition 1908-09, the voyage of the 'Roosevelt' through the ice of Smith Sound-Robeson Channel to winter quarters at Camp Jesup, Cape Sheridan on Ellesmere Island. Hunting, sledging and the final march to the Pole. View more info
By: Peary Robert E.
Price: £11.00
Publisher: Time Life Books: 1987
Edition: 1987 rep
Seller ID: 6991
Condition: 326pp, attractive imitation leather binding, a.e.g., some slight loss to gilt on base of pages, fine copy.
Peary's last expedition 1908-09, the voyage of the 'Roosevelt' through the ice of Smith Sound-Robeson Channel to winter quarters at Camp Jesup, Cape Sheridan on Ellesmere Island. Hunting, sledging and the final march to the Pole. View more info
