Arctic & Antarctic
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Expedition Antarctique Belge. Au Pays des Manchots: Recit du Voyage de la Belgica
$2,200.00 Add to cartGeorges Lecointe
Bruxelles: Societe Belge de Libraire, 1904.
Account of the captain of the RV Belgica, the second in command of the first Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897-1899. Considered the first expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, it was the first expedition to spend the entire winter in the region. Trapped in the ice for a year, they were ill prepared, the polar night driving a number of the crew mad and with scurvy setting in they were forced to subsist on penguin (largely considered inedible). Despite the challenges much scientific data was gathered including around 700 rock samples, for the first time meteorological observations were recorded for a full Antarctic year, and 188 new animal species were discovered. This superlative copy bound in full vellum with leather labels and decorative endpapers, and with a bound in manuscript letter dated 26 July 1904 from Lecointe to Madame Van Halteren requesting her to give the book to her daughter, Miss Van Halteren, signed by Lecointe, also with his monogram stamp and the stamp of the Royal Observatory of Belgium. -
In the Antarctic: Stories of Scott’s Last Expedition
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Reprint.
21cm x 13cm. [vi], 146 pages, black and white illustrations. Green cloth, gilt lettering.
With illustrations by Edward Wilson and the author.
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The Quest for the Northwest Passage
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Second Folio Printing.
25cm x 17cm. xxi, 614 pages, [19] leaves of plates, maps. Blue decorative cloth in black and silver, top edge blue, slipcase.
Edited and Introduced by Glyn Williams. FORD-SMITH 1383.
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Scott’s Last Expedition
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Second Folio Edition. First Printing.
25cm x 16.5cm. xxvi, 496 pages, frontispiece, [50] pages of illustrations. Full pictorial cloth, slipcase.
The journals of Captain R. F. Scott, illustrated with photographs by Herbert Ponting. FORD-SMITH 1581.
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Ross Gilmore Marvin: Scientist, Teacher, Explorer: A Tragedy in the Arctic
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First Edition.
22.5cm x 15cm. 24 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
“The story of Ross Gilmore Marvin, scientist and First Assistant to Admiral Robert E. Peary, discoverer of the North Pole. Marvin lost his life in the Arctic Seas north of Cape Columbia, April 10, 1909.” (from p.3) It includes excerpts from his diary.
Wrappers tanned. Very minor bump to spine crown. Very Good Condition. -
Macquarie Island
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First Edition.
25.5cm x 18cm. xii, 380 pages, 34 pages black and white illustrations, maps. Green cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.
The story of the exploration of Macquarie Island, an Australian Sub-Antarctic Territory, and the exploitation of its seals and penguins for oil.
Minor foxing and tanning to edges, endpapers and last page. Minor rubbing and very minor chipping to jacket. Very Good Condition. -
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The Antarctic Book: Winter Quarters, 1907-1909 [Supplement to The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition]
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First Edition. Signed by person(s) connected with book
28cm x 23cm. [4], 53, [4] pages, 4 tipped in colour plates, 6 etchings. Quarter vellum, papered boards.
The supplementary volume of one of the most sought after of Antarctic works, the deluxe first edition limited to 300 copies in vellum of The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909, also known as the Nimrod Expedition made by Ernest Henry Shackleton and his party to the Ross Sea region of Antarctica and making extensive journeys into the interior. This supplement, in the corrected second state, contains 2 sheets with the 16 signatures of the shore party: the first with those of the English party members, Ernest H. Shackleton, Raymond Priestly, Frank Wild, Ernest Joyce, Bernard C. Day, Philip L. Brocklehurst, Jameson Boyd Adams, Eric Marshall, Aeneas L. A. Mackintosh, Bertram Armytage, William C. Roberts, James Murray, George E. Martson, and A. Forbes Mackay; the second with the Australian members, T. W. Edgeworth David and Douglas Mawson. The supplement also contains Erebus: A Poem by Shackleton, Bathybia, or What Might Have Been at the South Pole by D. Mawson, 4 tipped in colour portrait plates of Shackleton, Jameson Boyd Adams, Dr. Eric Marshall, and Frank Wild, 6 etchings by George Marston, being of the Nimrod, Mount Erebus, a portrait of Ernest Joyce, and two fanciful mushroom landscapes, as well as a red linocut of the Penguin Press device designed by Marston for their production of the first book printed in Antarctica, Aurora Australis.
Tanning to vellum and boards with moderate shelf and handling wear and minor insect damage to vellum. Free endpapers tanned. Foxing, minor soiling and offsetting.. Good Condition. -
Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott’s Antarctic Quest
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First Edition. Inscribed by Author
24cm x 16cm. xiv, 462 pages, black and white illustrations, maps. Quarter black paper, brown papered boards, gilt lettering, pictorial jacket.
This copy extensively inscribed by Sir Ranulph Fiennes and one other to the title page
Very minor bumping to corners. 1cm closed tear near crown fore-edge corner of jacket. Very Good Condition. -
The Quest for the Northwest Passage
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Second Folio Printing.
25cm x 17cm. xxi, 614 pages, illustrations, some colour, maps. Blue illustrated cloth, silver lettering, top edge blue, slipcase.
Edited and Introduced by Glyn Williams.
Very minor soiling to cloth. Foxing to edges, a few spots to endpapers. Preliminary page xiii/xiv creased. Minor marks and rubbing to slipcase, 2 corners bumped. Good Condition. -
Shackleton’s Boat Journey
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Second Folio Printing.
22cm x 14cm. 148 pages, black and white illustrations, map on endpapers. Illustrated cloth, gilt lettering, top edge blue, slipcase.
Introduction and Notes by Duncan Carse. Photographs by Frank Hurley.
Minor tanning to spine. Very minor foxing to edges. Very minor soiling to slipcase. Very Good Condition. -
The Sounds of Antarctica
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First Edition.
Includes 45″ vinyl record in Very Good Condition.
Dampstaining to top edge of text block and cover. Fair Condition. -
Flight of the Falcon: Scott’s Journey to the South Pole 1910-1912
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. Signed by AuthorGood Minus Condition. SIGNED by the author. Inscribed to Australian author, Mudrooroo, by Andy Halifax.
Light soiling to outside edges of text block. Good Condition.
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Antarctic Odyssey
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First Edition.24cm x 16cm. x, [2], 284 pages, black and white plates. Dark blue cloth, silver lettering, in illustrated dust jacket.
Minor wear to boards. Minor foxing to top edge, very minor elsewhere. Dust Jacket lightly worn at edges, very small chips and tears, in protective wraps, can be safely removed. Very Good Condition.
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The Crystal Desert: Antarctic Photographs
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.Near Fine Condition in Very Good Plus Dust Jacket.
Book is in Near Fine condition, by which we mean almost as if in its original new condition, but containing very slight marks of age and/or wear from light handling. Near Fine Condition.
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The Voyage of the Scotia: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration in the Antarctic Seas
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First Edition.22cm x 15cm. xxiv, 375 pages, black and white illustrations, fold out map. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, pictorial jacket.
Ex Brisbane City Council Library, usual stamps. Adhesive residue marks to endpapers. Jacket edges lightly worn, closed tear to jacket tail. Good Condition (ex-library).
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Nanoq: Flat Out and Bluesome: A Cultural Life of Polar Bears
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First Edition.VG+.
. Very Good Condition.
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The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912
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Reprint.22cm x 14cm. xxxv, 449 pages, maps, 1 fold-out, black and white illustrations and photographs. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, pictorial jacket.
Translated from the Norwegian by A. G. Chater.
Spine creased. Board edges worn and chipped. Front free endpaper removed, front hinge tender. Ex Parramatta City Library, stamps and markings. Jacket worn and soiled with a closed tear to front flap. Good Condition (ex-library).