London: John Murray, 1912. First edition in English of Amundsen's account of the first expedition to reach the South Pole, more than a month before Robert Scott; 2 volumes, large 8vo, portrait frontispieces with tissue guards, plates, maps, graphs, and tables in the text; original red decorated cloth, covers and..... More

London: Royal Geographical Society, February, 1913. 8vo, pp. xiv, [97]-200; Bentinck's article contains 15 photographic illus. on rectos and versos of 3 plates, and a folding map of India's northeast frontier; spine a little perished at the bottom, but generally a very good copy in orig. blue printed wrappers. Also..... More

[Colorado Springs, Colo.]: The Press at Colorado College, 1991. Edition limited to 50 copies (this, no. 18), signed by the printer and designer, James Trissel, and also by the photographer, Stuart Klipper; oblong folio, pp. [50] and but for the title-page spread, printed on rectos only; with 28 mounted black..... More

Washington, D.C. prepared at the Library of Congress and sponsored by the Office of Antarctic Programs, National Science Foundation, 1965. 4to, pp. vi, 506; original blue cloth; gilt lettering on front cover and spine; near fine. Primarily scientific publications, encompassing biology, geology, meteorology, and physics. Volume 1 of 4. More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, [2], 559; 24 leaves of black and white photographic plates printed on rectos and versos, text maps, facsimiles, and illustrations by W.E. How, color map endpapers; original cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; jacket edges worn, half-inch tear to..... More

[Newton St Margarets: Pequena, 2009]. First edition, square 4to, pp. 303, [1]; illustrated throughout; fine copy in the dust jacket. Signed by the author on the half-title and by James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian. "A celebration of the life of Edward Beveridge Binnie, who was..... More

Madison: New Erections Press, 1970. First edition printed in a limited by unspecified number, 8vo, pp. [20]; 14 full-page illustrations from photographs; self-wrappers; light soiling; very good or better. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded the Toothpaste Press and Coffee House Press..... More

Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1986. First edition, oblong 4to, pp. [8], 63, 28, [4]; map, color photographs throughout; text in Japanese; pictorial boards, fine in the original plastic jacket. More

Melbourne [et al.]: Oxford University Press, 1957. First edition, 4to, pp. xxiv, 152; errata slip laid in, 2 inserted double-p. maps printed in blue, color frontispiece, and well over 100 photographic illus. throughout, a number in color; very good copy in orig. printed paper wrappers, cloth shelf-back. Antarctic Bibliography 1951-1961..... More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1955]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. [6], vii-xii, [2], 3-269, [1]; map endpapers; original green cloth; silver lettering on spine; dust jacket, clipped, scuffed around the edges; otherwise very good. Spence 762. More

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958. Third edition, 8vo, pp. 206; 23 plates, 3 maps; original jacket rubbed, else near fine. An account of Migot's year at the French station on the Kerguelin Islands, approximately 1500 miles north of Antarctica, in the southern Indian Ocean. Migot also was part of an expedition..... More

New York: John De Graff, Inc., [1956]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. vi, 247; mapped endpapers, black & white photographic illustrations, very good in original blue cloth with decorative dust jacket. More

[Washington DC: American Geophysical Union, 1979]. 4to, pp. 24; text illustrations throughout; blue library buckram, title in black and call number on spine; library bookplate and bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian on endpapers, very good. Extracted from the Biology of the Antarctic Seas..... More