Category: Polar Regions

Text by Joanna Wright, Shane Murphy, Gael Newton & Michael Gray. First edition. Large square 4to. 320pp, profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Blue buckram with dustwrapper (a little faint discolouration on rear panel). A very good to fine clean copy. ISBN 0670912093 ***From the archives of the RGS, London, the State Library of NSW & the Scott Polar Institute, Cambridge.
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Mawson : life and death in Antarctica.

By: JARVIS, Tim.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Miegunyah Press (MUP): 2008

Seller ID: 35179

Small 4to. 240pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0522854869
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Cosmic Ray Records, Mawson [Antarctica]. January 1958 to December 1958.

By: JOHNS, D.H. and P.A. Trost.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Antarctic Division, Dept. of External Affairs: October1961

Seller ID: 31405

(ANARE Reports. Series C. Volume II.) Small 4to. 2pp text, 108pp tables, 4pp list of ANARE Reports. Side stapled in soft covers with cloth back strip (some areas of yellowing, small biro number on front cover). Very good.
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The Health of Antarctic Wildlife : a challenge for science and policy.

By: KERRY, Knowles & Martin J. Riddle (eds).

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Berlin, Springer: 2009

Seller ID: 35573

8vo. xviii, 470 160pp, illustrations, maps, tables; subject and taxonomic indexes. Pictorial papered boards. Tiny indentations to foot edge of both boards, near the front corners, otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 3540939229
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The Antarctic.

By: KING, H.G.R.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Blandford Press: 1969

Seller ID: 5222

First edition. 276pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w, endpaper maps. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (price-clipped). Owner's small name-label on front paste-down, another's written name along top margin of ffep (above the map) obscured with liquid paper. Very good.
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Schists and Gneisses from the Moraines, Cape Denison, Adelie Land. Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14. Scientific Reports. Series A, Volume IV: Geology, Part 7.

By: KLEEMAN, A.W.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Sydney, Government Printer: 1940

Seller ID: 29856

AAE Scientific Reports, Series A, Volume IV: Geology, Part 7, pp [197] - 292, 5 plates. Large 4to. Stapled with wrappers drawn on, as issued. Very good.
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Franklin : tragic hero of polar navigation.

By: LAMBERT, Andrew.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 2009

Seller ID: 27059

First edition. 428pp, colour illustrations. Papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0571231608 ***Chapters 6 & 7 deal with the Franklins in Van Diemen's Land.
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The Antarctic Voyage of HMAS Wyatt Earp.

By: LAW, Phillip.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Sydney, Allen & Unwin: 1995

Seller ID: 3955

First edition. 152pp, maps, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 1863738037
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With Scott to the Pole.

By: MARSHALL, Howard (re-told by).

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Country Life: 1941

Seller ID: 12919

Illustrated from the original expedition photographs by Herbert Ponting. Second impression. Small 4to. 48pp, frontis portrait & 32 plates, full-page map. Original cloth. A little spotting early and late, owner's name. Very good.
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A History of Antarctica.

By: MARTIN, Stephen.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Sydney, State Library of NSW Press: 1996

Seller ID: 21962

4to. 272pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Papered boards with dustwrapper (slight surface rubbing). Very good. Owner's small name label on front pastedown. ISBN 0731066014
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South by Northwest : the magnetic crusade and the contest for Antarctica.

By: MAWER, Granville Allen.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Kent Town, SA, Wakefield Press: 2006

Seller ID: 21259

322pp, b&w photographs, illustrations and maps. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 1862546509
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Ahab's Trade : the saga of South Seas whaling.

By: MAWER, Granville Allen.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Sydney, Allen & Unwin: 1999

Seller ID: 8214

First edition. 394pp, 5 maps, 28 illustrations (13 in colour). Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ***The 'first truly global industry' and the men who worked in it.
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Mawson's Huts : the birthplace of Australia's Antarctic heritage.

By: Mawson's Huts Foundation:

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Sydney, Allen & Unwin: 2008

Seller ID: 24865

Large square 4to. 192pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 1741754364
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Macquarie Island: its geography and geology. Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14. Scientific Reports. Series A, Volume V.

By: MAWSON, Douglas - based mainly on the records of Leslie Russel Blake

Price: $165.00

Publisher: Sydney, Government Printer: 1943

Seller ID: 29845

AAE Scientific Reports, Series A, Volume V. 194pp, 46 text figures (many maps, sections etc), 2 maps in colour, 37 half-tone plates (3 folding, 94 b&w photographs in total); the folding map & plates (panoramas) in rear pocket. Large 4to. Sewn with wrappers drawn on, as issued; slight chipping to head and tail of spine. The fore-edges of the upper wrapper and first two leaves have a few small tears or chips repaired with clear tape, otherwise a very good clean copy.
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Mawson's Antarctic Diaries.

By: MAWSON, Sir Douglas : edited by Fred & Eleanor Jacka.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Sydney, Susan Haymes / Allen & Unwin: 1988

Seller ID: 12013

Small thick 4to. 414pp, 12 colour and 48 b&w plates, 6 maps, place ribbon. Black cloth with dustwrapper (a little dulled, as often). A very good clean copy.
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The Home of the Blizzard : being the story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914.

By: MAWSON, Sir Douglas.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1931

Seller ID: 22034

Illustrated with ninety-two photographs, eighteen diagrams and three folding maps. Abridged Popular Edition (third impression). Large 8vo. xxxii, 438pp, illustrated with 35 photographs, 18 diagrams and 3 folding maps. Original blue streaked cloth, the spine dulled, corners a little rubbed. Some foxing, mostly on early pages, and on the edges; otherwise a good clean copy. ***Some of the illustrations differ from those of the first edition, and were previously unpublished. The text is substantially rewritten and revised.
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Polar Castaways : the Ross Sea Party (1914-17) of Sir Ernest Shackleton.

By: McELRAE, Richard & David Harrowfield.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Christchurch NZ, Canterbury University Press: 2004

Seller ID: 19320

First edition. 315pp, 32pp b&w photographs, pictorial endpapers. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 1877257265
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An Antarctic Affair : a story of love and survival by the great-grandaughter of Douglas and Paquita Mawson.

By: McEWIN, Emma.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Bowden, SA, East Street: 2008

Seller ID: 27463

xiv, 254pp, 28 b&w illustrations, 2 maps, index. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ***Signed by the author.
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Gazetteer of the Australian Antarctic Territory - two issues, 1965 & 1983.

By: MCKINNON, G.W. (1965) & Suzanne E. Stallman (1983).

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Department of External Affairs, Antarctic Division: 1965

Seller ID: 33104

[1965] ANARE Interim Reports Series A (II) Geography. Publication No.75. 153pp. Cloth-backed stiff wrappers (spine sunned). A very good clean copy.
[1983] ANARE Research Notes 15. (Antarctic Division, Dept of Science & Technology.) iv, 50pp. Stapled in stiff wrappers, papered spine. A fine clean copy.
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Ice in the Rigging : ships of the Antarctic 1699-1937.

By: MITCHENER, E.A. (Ted) : edited by Peter Boyer and Graeme Broxam.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Hobart, Maritime Museum of Tasmania: 2015

Seller ID: 21623

4to. 376pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. *** The definitive history of the ships that ventured into Antarctic waters for exploration or commerce between 1699 and 1937.
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Antarctica : beyond the southern ocean.

By: MONTEATH, Colin.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sydney and Auckland, Harper Collins: 1996

Seller ID: 35569

Oblong 4to. 160pp, lavishly illustrated in colour. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (a couple of closed tears, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. ISBN 0732257042
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South With Scott.

By: MOUNTEVANS, Admiral Lord [Sir Edward Evans].

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Collins: 1952

Seller ID: 5372

With 31 photographs by Herbert Ponting. Reprint. 284pp, illus. Cloth with dustwrapper (previously taped to the endpapers, leaving marks there and on the blurb flaps,now in protective sleeve). Edges, endpapers and early pages heavily foxed, otherwise a good clean copy.
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THE ANTARCTIC CHALLENGED.

By: MOUNTEVANS, Admiral Lord.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, Staples Press: 1955

Seller ID: 15370

191pp, b&w photographs, map eps. Original cloth-textured papered boards (some tiny bumps on extremities) with dustwrapper (clipped, small chips from extremities, a little marking on back). Very good..
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From Edinburgh to the Antarctic : an artist's notes and sketches during the Dundee Expedition of 1892-93.

By: MURDOCH, W.G. Burn.

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: London, Longmans Green and Co: 1894

Seller ID: 28227

With a chapter by W.S. Bruce, naturalist of the barque 'Balaena'. First edition. 8vo. xii, 364pp, 123 b&w text illustrations, full-page coloured map and folding map at rear, 32pp publisher's catalogue. Original dark green cloth, lettered in silver and decorated in silver and brown on the upper board; extremities rubbed, slight fraying at head and tail of spine, a little flecking and slight fading at foot of the upper board (a plate of some sort possibly removed); now in a clear mylar wrapper. The ink stamp (upside down) of "Coates' Library, Huddersfield" on verso of front free endpaper...
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Antarctic Days.

By: MURRAY, James and George Marston.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Eccles, Norwich, Erskine Press: 2012

Seller ID: 31086

Illustrated by the Authors. Preface by Sir Ernest Shackleton. Facsimile reprint: 280 numbered copies replicating the 1913 'de luxe' edition, also of 280 numbered copies (#164 has been used for the facsimile), with a new introduction by Joe O'Farrell. x, [ii], xxii, 200pp, 4 colour illustrations, 37 black & white illustrations, facsimile of Shackleton, Murray and Marston's signatures on the half-title page. A fine clean (new) copy. ISBN 1852971142 *** First published in 1913 by Andrew Melrose, London, in deluxe and trade editions. The original adds the sub-title 'Sketches of the homely side of ...
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Sitting on Penguins : people and politics in Australian Antarctica.

By: MURRAY-SMITH, Stephen.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sydney, Hutchinson: 1988

Seller ID: 5369

Drawings by Jan Senbergs. First edition. 250pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0091691206
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Southern Light : images from Antarctica.

By: NEILSON, David.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Emerald (Victoria), Snowgum Press: 2012

Seller ID: 30542

Photographs and text by David Neilson. With additional photographs by Karen Alexander. Large square 4to. 306pp, lavishly illustrated in colour and b&w (seven images are on double-page gatefolds). Cloth-textured papered boards, penguin device in gilt on the upper, with dustwrapper. Fine (new). ISBN 0958575312
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Southern Light : images from Antarctica.

By: NEILSON, David.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Emerald (Victoria), Snowgum Press: 2012

Seller ID: 30543

Slipcased issue. Photographs and text by David Neilson. With additional photographs by Karen Alexander. Large square 4to. 306pp, lavishly illustrated in colour and b&w (seven images are on double-page gatefolds). Cloth-textured papered boards, penguin device in gilt on the upper, with dustwrapper, housed in a matching slipcase (gilt title and penguin device) and with a canvas carry-bag (marked with the same title/image). Fine (new). ISBN 0958575312
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Company of Adventurers, Volume I [and] Caesars of the Wilderness (Company of Adventurers, Volume II).

By: NEWMAN, Peter C.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Markham, Ontario, Viking: 1985& 1987

Seller ID: 34113

Two volumes. Large 8vo.414 & 450pp, b&w illustrations, maps, endpaper maps. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrappers (slight rubbing, now in protective sleeves). A very good clean set. ISBN 0670803790 *** A history of the Hudson's Bay Company.
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The Ice Master. The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk.

By: NIVEN, Jennifer.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan: 2000

Seller ID: 29085

xiv, 402pp, black & white photographs, map endpapers. Original leather-textured papered boards (top edges bumped) with dustwrapper (spine faded). Very good. ISBN 0333779606
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Petrology of Rocks from Queen Mary Land. Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14. Scientific Reports. Series A, Volume IV, Part 2.

By: NOCKOLDS, S.R.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Sydney, Government Printer: 1940

Seller ID: 29846

AAE Scientific Reports, Series A, Series A, Volume IV: Geology, Part 2, pp15-86, 34 text figures (including a full-page map), 1 plate (with 6 figs). Large 4to. Stapled with wrappers drawn on, as issued; slight chipping to fore-edge of the upper. The first text leaf has two clean tears, one quite long, closed neatly with archival tape, otherwise a very good clean copy.
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A Horrible Road to Travell - the diary of Captain Donald Sinclair at Macquarie Island, December 1877 - January 1878.

By: NORMAN, F.I.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers & Proceedings: March,1989

Seller ID: 7572

in Volume 36/1, pp 33-51. Stapled in wrappers, as issued. ***The diary - of a sealing voyage - is held in the Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand.
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The Crystal Desert : Antarctic photographs.

By: PAGE, Charles J.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Queensland?, Author?: [2007]

Seller ID: 24430

Oblong 4to. 148pp, b&w images. Black cloth with dustwrapper (top edge a little rubbed). Very good to fine. ***Black & white images from documentary photographer Charles Page's visit to Antarctica in 1993 with the Australian Antarctic Division. A set of the photographs was donated to the Tasdmanian Museum & Art Gallery (whose director, Bill Bleathman, has written the Foreword).
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The North Pole.

By: PEARY, Robert E.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Time-Life Books: 1985

Seller ID: 31033

With an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. (Classics of Exploration.) Facsimile of the first edition of 1910. 8vo. xii, 326pp, 116 illustrations from photographs & other text illustrations, folding coloured map. Faux leather with simile spine labels and raised bands, marbled eps, all edges gilt. Very good to fine.
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The Ice : a journey to Antarctica.

By: PYNE, Stephen J.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Arlington Books: 1986

Seller ID: 35128

Reprint. 428pp, 16 plates. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy.
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A Man for Antarctica : the early life of Phillip Law.

By: RALSTON, Kathleen.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Hyland House: 1993

Seller ID: 15977

First edition. 236pp, b&w photographs, maps. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (spine sunned). A very good clean copy. ISBN 1875657134
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The Ross Sea Shore Party 1914-17.

By: RICHARDS, R.W.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Huntingdon, Bluntisham Books/Erskine Press: 2003

Seller ID: 16476

Facsimile edition. First published by the Scott Polar Research Institute, as Special Publication No. 2 (Spence 969). 44pp, map, 2 plates. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Fine (unused). ISBN 1852970774
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Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition : the voyage of the Nimrod.

By: RIFFENBURGH, Beau.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Bloomsbury: 2004

Seller ID: 31563

First US edition. xxiv, 358pp, 16pp b&w illustrations. Papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good to fine clean copy. ISBN 1582344884
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A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions during the years 1839-43.

By: ROSS, Captain Sir James Clark.

Price: $5,000.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1847

Seller ID: 34697

With plates, maps and woodcuts. Two volumes. 8vo. [I] liv, 366pp (and chapter half-title leaves not included in pagination, 7 with woodcut vignettes), frontis and 4 other lithographic plates (one folding), 6 maps (two folding). [II] [v]-xii (but complete), 448pp (and chapter half-titles as above, 10 with vignettes), frontis and 2 other lithographic plates, 2 maps (one large folding), 2 text illustrations (one not listed); 16pp publisher's adverts (A List of Works of General Literature dated January 1847). Includes appendices on the geology of Tasmania, NZ and Antarctica by Robert M'Cormick, su...
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Poles Apart. Parallel Visions of the Arctic and Antarctic.

By: ROWELL, Galen.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Berkeley CA, Mountain Light Press/University of California Press: 1995

Seller ID: 21961

Square 4to. 184pp, colour photographs, map eps. Soft covers. Near fine. ISBN 1857327551
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The Sub-Antarctic : proceedings of a forum held at CCAMLR on behalf of Antarctic Tasmania, 6-7 July 2006.

By: Royal Society of Tasmania.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Hobart, Papers & Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania: 2006

Seller ID: 29368

RSTPP, Volume 141, parts 1& 2. 4to. 214pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A fine clean copy.
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Scott's Last Expedition : the personal journals of Captain R.F. Scott, CVO, RN, on his journey to the South Pole.

By: Scott, Captain R.F.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Folio Society: 1964

Seller ID: 6892

First FS printing. 322pp, illus, ep maps. Decorated cloth in slipcase (extremities slightly rubbed). Spine slightly dulled, top edges coloured blue, others with a little spotting. Very good.
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The Voyage of the 'Discovery'.

By: SCOTT, Captain Robert F.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1907

Seller ID: 36329

With illustrations and maps. New [third] edition.Two volumes. Vol I: xvi, 410pp, 6pp publisher's adverts; coloured frontis, 12 plates, folding map. Vol II: x, 388 (last blank)pp; coloured frontis, 12 plates, folding map. Deep blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spines and upper boards, coloured illustration laid into the upper board of both volumes; top edges gilt, the others uncut. The bindings are in very good clean condition. The first and last several leaves of both volumes are quite heavily foxed, and an occasional page in the text likewise, but generally clean. An inscription has been ne...
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Aurora Australis.

By: SHACKLETON, E.H. (ed).

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Sydney, Bay Books: 1988

Seller ID: 7466

Facsimile reprint: xxii, 194pp. Papered boards with dustwrapper (spine slightly sunned). A very good clean copy. ISBN 1862563098 ***Facsimile of the first book printed and published in Antarctica.
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Mon Expedition au Sud Polaire 1914-17.

By: SHACKLETON, Sir Ernest.

Price: $485.00

Publisher: Tours, Maison Alfred Mame et Fils: [1921].

Seller ID: 33075

Traduction de M.-L. Landel. Large 4to. 380pp, b&w photographic illustrations, folding map. Pictorial cloth (the Endurance in the ice), spine decorated and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. A very good clean copy.
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Image for The Heart of the Antarctic : being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. With and Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc. An Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T. Edgeworth David, F.R.S.

The Heart of the Antarctic : being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. With and Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc. An Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T. Edgeworth David, F.R.S.

By: SHACKLETON, Sir Ernest.

Price: $950.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1909

Seller ID: 17154

First edition. Two volumes. [I] xlviii, 372pp, frontis portrait, 6 full-page coloured plates with titled tissues, 97 plates with 122 b&w illustrations (77 full-page) 2 double-page panoramas and one double-page spread with photographs of 16 expedition members. [II] xvi, 420pp, frontis, 6 full-page coloured plates with titled tissues, 93 plates with 141 b&w illustrations (51 full-page), 1 double-page plate, 3 folding maps and one tissue sheet with two panoramas in rear pocket. The errata slip is not present. Original blue cloth, silver-blocked illustrations on the upper boards, spines lettered i...
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South : the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-17.

By: SHACKLETON, Sir Ernest.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Century: 1986

Seller ID: 35560

376pp, a few text illustrations. Soft covers, light reading creases on spine. A good clean copy. ISBN 0712601112
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The Japanese South Polar Expedition 1910-12.

By: Shirase Antarctic Expedition Supporters Association (editors)

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Norwich, Bluntisham Books / Erskine Press: 2011

Seller ID: 29651

Translated by Lara Dagnall & Hilary Shibata. 414pp, 8pp colour plates, b&w illustrations. Cloth-textured papered boards, gilt lettering a decorations, with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 1852971096 *** First published in Japanese in 1913.
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Category: Polar Regions