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
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., 1958. New edition entirely revised, 8vo, pp. [8], vii-ix, [1], 123; 1 colored folding map; illustrations and original green cloth; gilt lettered spine; dust jacket, small tear at the head of the spine; otherwise very good. Spence 132. More
London: George Newnes, 1901. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 333, [32] ads; gravure frontispiece portrait, 3 folding maps printed in color, and 296 illustrations throughout, a number full-page; front free endpaper neatly and imperceptibly reattached, else a fine, bright copy in original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt and..... More
London: Constable & Co., [1922]. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. lxiv, 300, [4]; viii, 301-585, [1]; complete with 48 plates (6 in color), 5 maps (4 folding), and 10 panoramic views; original holland-backed boards; without the duplicate labels tipped to the front free endpaper of each volume; hinges neatly..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1958. First edition, 8vo, pp. [9], x-xvi, [4], 5-423, [1]; map endpapers; original teal cloth; silver lettering on spine; dust jacket; near fine. Spence 324. 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
London: W. Collins, 1946. 8vo, pp. [6], 7-47, [1]; 8 colored illustrations on rectos and versos of 4 plates; additional illustrations and photographs throughout; original blue paper-covered boards; edges scuffed; otherwise very good. Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (1880-1957) was a Royal Navy officer and Antarctic..... 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
[London]: Queen Anne's Mansions, Stg. James Park, S.W., 5 Nov., [19]04. 16mo (approx. 6" x 3¾"), integral leaf attached; generally fine. The letter is headed "Capt. Scott's lecture." Goldie (1846-1925) notes that he is "much obliged by your letter of yesterday. I shall not be able to use any tickets..... 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
Wellington: R. E. Owen, Government Printer, 1964. First edition, 8vo, pp. [11], 12-435, [1]; map endpapers; over 70 illustrations on 40 plates; blue faux morocco with gilt spine lettering; dust jacket, cilpped; slightly scuffed; otherwise very good. Spence 582. More
New York: Atheneum, 1985. 8vo, pp. [7], 8-565, [3]; original pictorial wrappers; photographs and maps throughout; very good. Rosove 175.B5. More
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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
Screenprint, edition limited to 150 (this, no. 62), signed by Kitaj with initials at the lower right; image size approx. 19" x 14½" on a large sheet approx. 31" x 22" 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: St. Martin's Press, 1959. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], vii-viii, 215, [1]; maps and photographs throughout; original blue cloth printed in gilt; dust jacket; near fine. Spence 723. 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: William Heinemann, [1915]. First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, pp. xxx, 348, [2]; xiii, [1], 337, [3]; photogravure frontispieces, profusely illustrated with photographs, maps, and plans throughout (some folding, 21 in color), and 3 folding maps in pocket at back of volume II; near fine in original blue cloth stamped..... 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
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1959. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], vii-viii, [2], 201, [1]; original tan cloth printed in black; dust jacket, clipped; lightly worn; otherwise very good. Rosove 230.A1; Spence 806. 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
New York: Library Publishers, [1952]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [9], x-xxi, [1], 199, [1]; original blue cloth; gilt lettered spine; photographic frontispiece; dust jacket, clipped, upper spine chipped; otherwise very good. Spence 851. More
London; New York; Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., [1938]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 308; original green cloth; gilt lettered spine; map endpapers; 16 photographic plates; light foxing; ink stain on spine tail; otherwise very good. Spence 873. More
![Item #60062 Osteology of the Ross seal ommatophoca rossi gray, 1844 [drop title]. Jean Pierard,...](/pictures/thumb/60062_1.jpg?v=1646175132)
[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
