Antarctica
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# 45782
SSAG
[ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION] Ymer 2001: Antarktanderna – svensk forskning i Otto Nordenskjölds fotspår.
Stockholm : Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi, 2001. Octavo (225 x 160 mm), pictorial papered boards, pp. 290, photographic illustrations in b/w and colour, maps, diagrams; a very fine copy. Yearbook of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography for 2001, honouring the centenary of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1903 led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen. …
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# 45635
KLØVER, Geir O. (editor)
Cold recall : Roald Amundsen’s reflections from the South Pole
Oslo, Norway : Fram Museum, 2011. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 142, illustrated. ‘Cold Recall combines the complete texts of Roald Amundsen’s lectures about his expeditions through the Northwest Passage and the South Pole with the original hand-coloured lantern slides he used to illustrate his lectures. Together they offer a unique insight into how Amundsen presented …
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# 44220
SCOTT, Captain Robert Falcon (1868-1912)
The voyage of the “Discovery”
London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1905. Second impression. Two volumes, octavo, gilt lettered cloth with gilt medallions on upper boards (corners bumped, edges slightly worn, hinges rubbed), top edges gilt, fore edge foxed, pp xx, 556; xii, 508; photogravure frontispieces, numerous plates, folding maps in endpockets. A very good set of one of the …
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# 42916
[Società Geografica Italiana]
Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana. [Serie prima:] Anno VII. Volume X. Fascicolo 1, iuglio 1873 – Fascicolo 6, dicembre 1873].
Roma : Stabilimento Giuseppe Civelli, June-December 1873. Six parts in five volumes (as issued), octavo, original printed blue wrappers (some light staining and foxing, early ownership inscription to two of the upper wrappers); pp. 1-120 (with folding colour map showing telegraph communication linking Europe and Asia); 1-92; 1-94; 1-117; 1-74 (with folding lithographed plate of …
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# 41536
COOK, James, 1728-1779; FORSTER, Georg, 1754-1794; FURNEAUX, Tobias, 1735-1781
[COOK] Sammandrag af Capitain Jacob Cooks åren 1772, 73, 74 och 1775 omkring Södra Polen förrättade resa :
hwarwid Herrar Forsters och Furneaux journaler blifwit jämnförde och nyttjade : Innehållande det hufwudsakeligaste af de på denna resa gjorda nya uptäckter i söderhafwet, Rörande Södra Polens Ishaf nya uptäckte Öars naturalier och Inwånarnes Tänkesätt, Seder, Klädedrägt, m.m. Upsala [Sweden] : Johan Edman, 1783. Octavo, nineteenth century papered boards with title label to spine (edges …
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# 40439
FLEMMING, Carl (publisher); HERRICH, A. (cartographer)
[ANTARCTICA] Die Gebiete um den Südpol
Glogau : Carl Flemming, [ca. 1896]. Chromolithographic map, 410 x 480 mm, dissected and laid down on its original linen backing sheet, 420 x 495 mm; shows tracks of the main Antarctic expeditions from Cook (1772-75) to Bull (1894-95); scale 1:40,000,000; light handling wear around the edges, otherwise very good, with old collection stamp and …
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# 36977
HAWKESWORTH, John (1715-1773); COOK, James (1728-1779); KING, James
The three voyages of Captain James Cook
1. An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of his present Majesty for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and …
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# 18989
Mawson, Douglas, Sir (1882-1958)
The home of the blizzard : being the story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911 – 1914
Illustrated in colour and black and white also with maps. London : William Heinemann, 1915. Two volumes, thick octavo, original gilt-lettered cloth with pictorial inlay (spines dulled, corners bumped, lightly rubbed), top edges gilt, bookplates to pastedowns, pp xxx, 349; xiii, 338; extensively illustrated with colour and black and white plates, three folding maps contained …
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# 32167
HOWCHIN, Walter
The geology of South Australia. With notes on the chief geological systems and occurrences in the other Australian States. (With a presentation inscription by geologist and Antarctic explorer Sir T. W. Edgeworth David)
Adelaide : Walter Howchin (printed by Gillingham & Co.), 1929. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher’s black-lettered blue cloth over boards, spine lettered in black (sunned, frayed at head and tail), a significant association copy, the front pastedown inscribed in fountain pen by the distinguished Welsh-Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer …
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# 24978
[HOOKER, Joseph Dalton, 1817-1911]
[ANTARCTICA] Naval Medical Supplemental Fund. Standing Orders and Regulations. (Issued to Joseph Dalton Hooker on his appointment as second surgeon on HMS Erebus)
For the Constitution and Government of the Supplemental Fund for the Relief of the Widows of Medical Officers in the Royal Navy. [London : Council of the Royal Navy, 183-?]. Octavo (230 x 135 mm), stitched as issued with blue paper spine, pp [49]-54; the front is inscribed: ‘Mr Joseph Dalton Hooker. Admission Fee £2.6.0 …
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# 25211
NIHON SHONEN.
[BOARD GAME; ANTARCTICA] Nankyoku Tanken Hikoki Sugoroku.
[= Boardgame of the Antarctic Expedition by plane]. Tokyo : Jitsugyo no Nihonsha, 1911. Folded colour lithograph sheet, 730 x 540 mm, with illustrations by Akashi Sekish; together with the original playing markers with aeroplane designs printed on red, blue, yellow and white paper; a few insignificant insect holes (only noticeable when held to the …