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CHILE ANTÁRTICO: A TRAVÉS DE LOS SELLOS=STAMPS OF THE CHILEAN ANTARCTIC.
[Santiago de Chile]:: Fuerza Aérea de Chile,, [2008]. New. 64p., color photos, illus., wrps, oblong .... more information
Price: 35.00 USD
The Geographical Journal Vol. CXXIV Part 4 (December 1958)
Lond: The Royal Geographical Society, 1958 Complete issue, in original wrapper, one spine end chipped. Includes articles on Isle of Man, naming of Australia, the Commonwealth trans-Antarctic expedition, and others. .... more information
Price: 5.00 USD
The Geographical Journal Vol. CXXV Part 3-4 (September-December 1958)
Lond: The Royal Geographical Society, 1959 Complete issue, in original wrapper. Includes articles on Borneo, Patagonia, Antarctic voyage of M.V. "Thala Dan," glaciers of Mt. Baker, use of peat in northern Ireland, and others. .... more information
Price: 5.00 USD
R 298 Technical Report Snow Compaction in Antarctica Roads on Snow Covered Sea Ice 16 March 1964
Port: US Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, 1964 None as Issued jacket. Rust Marks By & on Staples.
Price: 10.00 USD
Port: US Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, 1967 None as Issued jacket. Rust Marks By & on Staples.
Price: 10.00 USD
Tr 399 Compacted Snow Runways in Antarctica Deep Freeze 61-64 Trails February 1966
Port: US Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, 1966 None as Issued jacket. Rust Marks By & on Staples. Binder holes on left edge. .... more information
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R 114technical Report Snow Compaction Techniques 29 June 1962
Port: US Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, 1962 None as Issued jacket. Rust Marks By & on Staples.
Price: 10.00 USD
R 49-Technical Report Compacted Snow Runways in Antarctica Deep Freeze 65 Trails September 1966
Port: US Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, 1966 None as Issued jacket. Rust Marks By & on Staples.
Price: 10.00 USD
Bost: A. E. G., 1926 None as Issued jacket. Wrinkled Bottom Edge, Browned. International Grenfell Association. .... more information
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The Geographical Journal Vol. XXVI No 5 (november 1905)
Lond: The Royal Geographical Society, 1905 Complete issue, in original wrapper, owner name and date top of wrapper. Includes articles on surveys and studies in Uganda, the French antarctic expedition, and others. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
Bost: A. E. G., 1926 Very Good. SIGNED by Grenfell on the front wrapper. Small brochure promoting Grenfell's work laid in. .... more information
Price: 17.50 USD
London: The British Museum, 1908-1035392 First Edition. Hardbound. Quarto. viii + 279; viii + 212pp. Both volumes illustrated throughout with eighty-seven black & white plates, complete. Professionally re-cased with red cloth over maroon boards with title stamped in gilt on spine. Very Good+ with spine sunned and corners bumped. Includes chapters on Mollusca, Arthropoda, Echinoderma, Myzostomidae, Sipunculoidea, Coelentera, Porifera, Vertebrata, Tunicata, Pterobranchia, Marine Algao and Lichenes .... more information
Price: 750.00 USD
Biological Results of the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, 1-17 (1959-1962).
Sirahama:: -,, 1959-62. Very Good Plus. Numerous plates and text-figures. 4to, 263 pp., binder's buckram (light foxing to title & contents page), no d.j. .... more information
Price: 55.00 USD
Christchurch, NZ:: New Zealand Antarctic Society,, 1967. 12mo, 10 numbers: Vol. 4.9 [March 1967], Vol. 5.3-10 [Sept. 1968-June 1970], Vol. 6.8 [Dec. 1972]. Each issue varies from 30-35 pp, b&w ills in text. Very Good condition. .... more information
Price: 85.00 USD
Queensland Geographical Journal.
Queensland Geographical Journal. (New Series) 20th Session 1904-1905. Thomson, Upheavals & Depressions in the Pacific and on the Aus. Coast; Eaton, Tasman: a Forgotten Navigator; Phillips, Stradbroke Island; Dorph, Notes on Palestinian Archaeology; Mathews, Ethnological Notes on Aboriginal Tribes of Queensland, Nelson, The Antarctic, Anniversary Address. Vol. XX. J.P. Thomson, editor. Royal Geographical Society of Australia Queensland, Brisbane 1905. [iv] + 103pp, b&w photo plates. Grey paper wraps slt. chipped on spine, mild ex-lib o/w vgc. .... more information
Price: 45.00 USD
Queensland Geographical Journal.
Queensland Geographical Journal. (New Series) 19th Session 1903-1904. Articles include Tolmie, Drayton and Toowoomba - their Early History; Douglas, Maritime Boundary of Queensland; Woolnough, New Zealand: Its Geographical & Meteorological Conditions considered in their Bearing on Field Industries; Mathews, Ethnological Notes on the Aboriginal Tribes of Western Australia; Nelson, The Antarctic: being the Anniversary Presidential Address to the Society", principally about the 1st Discovery expedition by Scott. Vol. XIX. J.P. Thomson, editor. Royal Geographical Society of Australia Queensland, Brisbane 1905. [iv] + 98pp, b&w photo plates. Grey pp wrps, spine chipped, otherwise vgc. Loose ad for book enclosed. .... more information
Price: 45.00 USD
Queensland Geographical Journal.
Queensland Geographical Journal. (New Series) 18th Session 1902-1903. Articles include Thomson, Geographical Evolution of the Australian Continent; Thistlethwayte, Hot Springs of Kusatsu; Mathews, the Murawarri and Other Australian Languages; Charlton & Palmer on Wide Bay and Burnett Districts; Nelson, The Antarctic, being the Anniversary Presidential Address, with Map. Vol. XVIII. J.P. Thomson, editor. Royal Geographical Society of Australia Queensland, Brisbane 1903. [iv] + 176pp, bB&w ills in text, 1 fold-out map. Grey paper wraps, spine chipped, slt. browned at edges, front wrapper detached & corner chipped, o/w vgc. .... more information
Price: 45.00 USD
Norwegian-British-Swedish Expedition.
Norwegian-British-Swedish Expedition. "An R.A.F. Unit in 'The Immaculate Wilderness': The Joint Norwegian-British-Swedish Expedition to the Antarctic, in which aircraft, dogs, and tracked vehicles were used." 536-7pp. Illus. London News issue for April 8, 1950. Also included "Australian Aboriginal Art: including remarkable 'Statues'." .... more information
Price: 25.00 USD
Mt. Erebus with Razor Back Island in foreground. Real photograph Antarctic Christmas Card.
Antarctic Club,, 1947. Very good overall. Published by the Antarctic Club, which was formed in 1929 & which held annual reunions for Antarctic explorers. Dated Xmas 1947, signed "Dick & Lorna". 10 x 15 cm. Silver embossed crest on white board cover, blue linen tie. Inside, a printed Christmas greeting on the left, signed by Dick & Lorna. Tipped in on facing page is a wonderful original photograph captioned in hand "Mt. Erebus with Razor Back Island in foreground". .... more information
Price: 75.00 USD
South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917 The photographs of Frank Hurley.
New York:: Simon & Schuster,, 2001. Outsize oblong 4to, 320pp, photographic illustrations by Frank Hurley on every page. Hardboard with dust jacket, slt rubbed at the edges, o/w very good condition. Internally immaculate. A compilation of the Hurley photos in the collections of the Royal Geographic Society, London, the State Library of New South Wales and the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge. .... more information
Price: 95.00 USD
Antarctic Bibliography. Volume 2.
Washington DC:: U.S. Government Printing Office,, 1966. Volume 2 only of the 10 volume set ; vg. .... more information
Price: 35.00 USD
France and the Southern and Antarctic Lands.
Ambassade de France, Service de Presse et d'Information, New York, April 1962 paper boards. .... more information
Price: 15.00 USD
Aiguade aux Iles Auckland. Engraving.
Paris:: Gide,, 1846. Magnificent original hand colored view by Le Breton, of the Sub-Antarctic Auckland Isles with the l'Astrolabe and Zelee just off shore while men chop and gather wood near the beach. Lithographed by Thierry freres, image size 37.3 x 20.2 cm. Plate no. 176 of: Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zelee. Atlas pittoresque, tome second by J. Dumont d'Urville. .... more information
Price: 350.00 USD
London:: T. Nelson,, 1882. Small 8vo, 1st ed.238pp, frontis of auks and penguins, 45 ills throughout, & adverts. Original brown cloth covers with gilt and black stamped cloth. Covers chipped at top and base of spine, o/w very good. Mostly on the Arctic, but the last 22pp are on the Antarctic, Interesting discussion of Stoltenhoff brothers stranded for 2 years on Inaccessible Island. Not in Spence. .... more information
Price: 65.00 USD
Wonders of Nature, Mt. Erebus.
London:: Thos. Nelson & Sons,, 1861. Two pages on Mt. Erebus, with description of Captain Ross's discovery; two pages on the Aurora Borealis & Icebergs. Subjects include natural wonders (Fingal's Cave, Niagara Falls, Icebergs, Mt. Vesuvius, the Phantom Ship, Waterspouts). Each is printed one side only on card stock with elaborate gilt borders, and in block color. 12mo, color frontis, color illus throughout, unpaginated, aeg. Red cloth covers with gilt title at front cover; no title at spine. Spine cloth lacking, but holding. Internally, very good, with elaborate gilt borders at each page. .... more information
Price: 75.00 USD
Philadelphia:: American Philosophical Society:,, 1940. Good +. One of the largest voyages of discovery, the Wilkes consisted of 6 vessels, 346 men, 9 scientists and artists. Vol. 82, June 29, 1940, No. 5. Tall 8vo, 950pp, (v). Tan paper wraps, black title to front cover and spine. Top of spine heavily rubbed with 2 splits, o/w good. .... more information
Price: 175.00 USD
Philadelphia:: American Philosophical Society:,, 1940. Very good. The Wilkes expedition was a bold undertaking for the relatively young American republic, taking six ships, 346 men including a team of nine scientist and artists, on a voyage around the globe that lasted four years. Vol. 82, June 29, 1940, No. 5. Tall 8vo, 950pp, (v). Bright blue gilt cloth, very good. Internally, original report cover laid inside front cover. .... more information
Price: 300.00 USD
The Evolution of Urine Analysis.
London:: Burroughs Wellcome & Co.,, 1911. Very good. Lecture memoranda of the American Medical Association, Los Angeles, 1911, with much Antarctic content, including descriptions and diagrams of the 'tabloid' medicine chests used by Commander R. W. Peary & Sir Ernest Shackleton; the medical equipment carried in Arctic and Antarctic Explorations, also the medical belt that was part of the Fram's equipment, & the entire medical outfit of the National Antarctic Expedition. 12mo, 248pp, aeg, memoranda blanks, ads, map of central Los Angeles 1911, decorative gilt end papers. Red gilt cloth with gilt unicorn to front cover, blind stamped decoration to rear cover. Lower corners front cover slt sunned.... more information
Price: 150.00 USD
Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Volume 56, 1920, July - Dec.
London:: Royal Geographical Society,, 1920. 8vo, viii, pp, b&w illus and maps throughout. Dark blue gilt cloth covers. Spine slt rubbed at base. Internally, slt damp marks inside front & back cover, o/w very good. Important volume of the RGS journal including content on Africa and China, such as: The African Rift Valleys, by J. W. Gregory, with sketch maps & plates; The Exploration of Tibesti, Erdi, Borkou, and Ennedi in 1912-1917, by Jean Tilho, with plates & map; and Antarctic Meteorology by Hugh Robert Mill. .... more information
Price: 175.00 USD
Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Volume 49, 1917, Jan. - June.
London:: Royal Geographical Society,, 1917. 8vo, viii, 508pp, b&w illus and maps throughout. Dark blue gilt cloth covers. Spine sunned, gilt title faded. Internally, slt damp ripples inside covers, o/w very good. Important volume of the RGS journal including content on The Alps, New Caledonia, Tibet and Antarctica (Shackleton), such as: The Great Passes of the Western and Central Alps, by Douglas Freshfield, with plates and map; New Caledonia and the Isle of Pines, by R. H. Compton, with plates and map; The Kansu Marches of Tibet, by R. Farrer, with plates; The Relief of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party, by Hugh Robert Mill; and Easter.... more information
Price: 275.00 USD
Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Volume 47, 1916, Jan. - June.
London:: Royal Geographical Society,, 1916. 8vo, viii, 523pp, b&w illus and maps throughout. Dark blue cloth covers with gilt title at spine. Internally, damp marks at front and rear end papers, o/w very good. Important volume of the RGS journal including content on Africa, Antarctica, and Sir Clements Markham, such as: Railway Development of Africa, Present and Future, by Sir Charles Metcalfe, with map; Islam and the Confraternities in French North Africa, by G. F. Andrews; the Death of Sir Clements Markham, with b&w frontis portrait; The Portuguese and their Early Knowledge of Central African Geography, by Sir Harry Johnston; and The Position of Sir.... more information
Price: 275.00 USD
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Three Items Related to the Antarctic Exploration During the International Geophysical Year 1956-57
Collection of three publications from the library of John B. Brown, a member of the Antarctic exploration conducted during the International Geophysical Year. There is a peak (Brown's Nunatak) as well as Brown Strait named in his honor. 1. Special Report Prepared by the National Academy of Sciences for the Committee on Appropriations of the United States Senate (Washington: GPO 1956) 27 pps. in printed wrappers, with folding map. Wrapper detached but present. 2. The Filchner Ice Shelf by H.A.C. Nueberg et al. Offprint from the Annals of the Association of American Geographers (June 1959). Brown printed wrappers, 10 pps..... more information
Price: 50.00 USD
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New York: L.E. Waterman Company, 1932 Very Good. (28) pages; album of signatures of notables from the 1930's, mostly American; often, the autograph collector identifies in his handwriting the collected signature below: Ernest Lynn Waldorf Bishop of Methodist Church; Roland H. Hartley Governor State of Washington; Joseph B. Ely Governor Massachusetts; Franklin D. Roosevelt Governor New York; Wm. Adams Governor Colorado; Harry Hollis Horton, Governor Tennessee; Arthur Seligman Governor New Mexico; Doyle E. Carlton Governor Florida; Stanley C. Wilson Governor Vermont; George White Governor Ohio; William Tudor Gardiner Governor Maine; George Henry Dern Governor Utah; C. Ben Ross Governor Idaho; James Rowland Angell President Yale College; Norman S..... more information
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Wien: Leopold Jos. Fitzinger, 1864 Very Good. Original color lithograph from this atlas of beautiful bird plates; approx. 11 ½" x 9" size; light wear to edges; colors bright and in very good condition. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
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London: Everybody's Weekly, 1952 Very Good. 35 pages; mostly black and white, halftone, a few color illustrations throughout; fashion, style, society, sport, varia in mid-twentieth century England; 'Socialist and the Sceptic' one act play by C.E.M. Joad; article on the Mau Mau of Kenya; golfing; the 'Titfield Thunderbolt' movie on a town's ancient steam locomotive; Part IV of Elizabeth Our Queen; hunting; article on the history of the Shackleton Antarctic expedition; article on boxer Rocky Marciano; large format magazine, 10 1/4" x 13" approximate size; some edge, tips wear, darkening to paper wraps and page edges, printed on cheap paper; contents interesting & in very good.... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
United States Antarctic Research Program USARP.
Washington, DC:: National Science Foundation,, 1964. Near Fine. 8vo (oblong). 3 booklets and 3 stapled papers in folder. Folder has wear to edges, soiling, creasing. Intro to Antarctica, Bedrock Geology of Antactica by Alfred A. Taylor, United States Antarctic Research Program, Antarctic Winds, Life on the "Lifeless Continent", Articles of Incorporation of The Antarctic Society. .... more information
Price: 60.00 USD
The Resolution Journal of J. R. Forster 1772-1775 Vol. IV.
Hakluyt Society, London, 1982, lacks d/j, fine. .... more information
Price: 95.00 USD
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Washington D.C.: American Geophysical Union, 1956 First. Cloth, 133 pps. with large folding map in pocket at rear. Illustrated with maps and charts. Unused 3-cent U.S. postal I.G.Y. commemorative stamp in small holder on title page. Collection of presentations made at the I.G.Y symposium on Antarctica held April 26 and 27, 1956. A tight copy, somewhat sunned at spine and edges. With the ownership signature on the front pastedown by a member of the I.G.Y.'s Operation Deep Freeze and with a 4-page original typescript of a speech made some years later about the expedition. .... more information
Price: 100.00 USD
Facts About the United States Antarctic Program.
Arlington, VA:: Office of Polar Programs National Science Foundation,, 1994. Very Good. 26 pp. 4to. Stapled paperback. Shelfwear and light soiling. Interior clean. .... more information
Price: 12.50 USD
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American Geophysical Union: Washington, DC, American Geophysical Union: Washington, DC. 10 x 7", cloth, 133pp, illus, large folding map in rear pocket, ex-lib else vg, issued w/o jacket. First edition .... more information
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Group of First Day Little America coveras and related ephemera.
Three envelopes, two postmarked Little America and one postmarked Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition S.S. Jacob Ruppert. 4 x 6, stamped Jan. 31, 1934; 3.5 x 6.5, commemorative envelope "Byrd Second Antarctic Expedition 1933 1935" with embossing and stamped May 20, 1935; 4 x 7.5 commemorative envelope with printed photo of Admiral Byrd on the front and stamped Jan 30, 1935 and on the reverse is stamped San Francisco March 25, 1935 with a stamped image of two penguins, one of which is delivering mail to the other and below them "Byrd Antarctic Expedition II Little America, Antarctica, Second Cancellation Mail.".... more information
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Hero in Disgrace; the True Discoverer of the North Pole Frederick A. Cook.
New York:: Paragon House,, 1991. First edition. 8vo, 251pp, ills, map. Hard board with damaged d/j. Jacket states "....accurately and poignantly captures the life of Dr. Frederick A Cook who is the rightful discoverer of the North Pole. " .... more information
Price: 15.00 USD
London: Allen Lane, 1982 fine. First. Color and b/w Illus. 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. (London): Allen Lane, (1982). Very good .... more information
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London:: Allen Lane,, 1982. 8vo, 160pp, 90 photographs, with 31 in color, vg+ condition. The author of Watership Down, with naturalist and ornithologist Ronald Lockley. An account of a two-month, 6500 mile journey through the Antarctic. .... more information
Price: 10.00 USD
Antartide; Storia Della Prima Spedizione Italiana.
Milan:: Fratelli Fabbri Editori,, 1976. First edition. 8vo, 192pp, ills. w d/j, vg+, as new. .... more information
Price: 35.00 USD
The Long White Road: Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Adventures.
New York:: D. Mckay,, 1957. First American edition. 8vo, 175 pp; map and drawings by Patricia Windrow. With chipped d/j, vg. Spence 10. .... more information
Price: 15.00 USD
Geographic Names of the Antarctic.
Washington DC:: National Science Foundation,, 1981. First edition. 4to, 959pp, map on end papers, stiff paper wraps, vg+condition. .... more information
Price: 45.00 USD
East Lothian:: Tuckwell Press,, 1999. First edition. 8vo, 215pp, map endpapers, frontispiece, photographic ills, map, with d/j, vgc. Book about Dundee's ice master Captain Harry McKay, on the National Antarctic Expedition with Robert F. Scott. .... more information
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The Arctic and Antarctic: their division into geobotanical areas.
Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press,, 1980. Translated by D. Love. 23 text-figures. 8vo, pp. xii, (1), 247, hardbound (very good; tips of corners & a lower corner bumped; a large indention to rear cover; head of spine & upper edge of rear cover bumped), d.j. (fine). .... more information
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The Endurance; Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999 211 [1]p., b/w illus., dj, quarto format. .... more information
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