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The Coldest March : Scott's fatal expedition.

By: SOLOMON, Susan.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 2001

Seller ID: 35313

384pp, illustrated. Quarter cloth and papered boards with dustwrapper. Tope edges a trifle spotted, otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 0300089678 ***Seeks to restore Scott's reputation; concluding that Scott's party was struck down by exceptionally frigid weather, 'a rare misfortune that confounded the men's meticulous predictions of what to expect'.
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Wild Life in the Subantarctic.

By: SORENSEN, J.H.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Christchurch NZ, Whitcombe & Tombs: 1951

Seller ID: 15989

Foreword by Dr R. A. Falla. xvii, 85pp, b&w photographs, maps. Original cloth (no d/w). Owner's name label and winscription on ffep. Very good.
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PENGUINS.

By: SPARKS, John & Tony Soper.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Macmillan: 1987

Seller ID: 19295

Illustrated by John Gillmor. 2nd ed. 246pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Original cloth with dustwrapper. Owner's small name-label. Very good.
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Metamorphic Rocks of Adelie Land (and other papers, in 6 parts). Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14. Scientific Reports. Series A, Volume III: Geology, Parts I-VI.

By: STILLWELL, F.L. et al

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Sydney, Government Printer: 1918-40

Seller ID: 29842

The six parts (complete) of AAE Scientific Reports, Series A, Volume III. Large 4to - the first part sewn with wrappers drawn on and the others stapled in wrappers, as issued. Part I spine slightly chipped at head and tail, Part V has slight damp-staining at the head and foot margins of the pages, more so on the plates where some slight damage has been caused by them sticking together, but images barely affected. Otherwise a very good clean set. ***[I] Metamorphic Rocks of Adelie Land (230pp, 35 plates); [II] The Metamorphic Limestones of Commonwealth Bay, Adelie Land, by Prof. C.E. Tilley ...
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Australia in the Antarctic : interest, activity and endeavour.

By: SWAN, R.A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Melb., MUP: 1961

Seller ID: 7493

432pp, coloured frontis, 32 illus/maps, endpaper maps. Cloth with dustwrapper (light spotting, extremities rubbed, now in protective sleeve). Stain to lower corner of the upper board, edges a little spotted, otherwise a good clean copy.
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COOPERS CREEK TO LANGTANG II.

By: TAYLOR, Peter.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Rigby: 1964

Seller ID: 14090

First edition. 239pp, well illus. Original cloth with dustwrapper. Very good.
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Scott's Men.

By: THOMSON, David.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Allen Lane: 1977

Seller ID: 16033

First edition. 332pp, 28 photographic illustrations. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (spine a trifle sunned). A very good clean copy. ISBN 0713910348
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A Group of Gneisses (Sillimanitic and Cordieritic) from the Moraines at Cape Denison, Antarctica. Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14. Scientific Reports. Series A, Volume IV: Geology, Part 10.

By: TILLEY, Dr C.E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Sydney, Government Printer: 1940

Seller ID: 29855

AAE Scientific Reports, Series A, Volume IV: Geology, Part 4, pp335-344, 1 plate (a couple of faint damp stains in top margins). Large 4to. Stapled in wrappers, as issued (extremities a little yellowed). Good to very good. .
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The History of Modern Whaling.

By: TONNESSEN, J.N. and A.O. Johnsen.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London and Canberra, C. Hurst & Co. / ANU Press: 1982

Seller ID: 5241

Translated from the Norwegian by R.I. Christophersen. 798pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (extremities a little rubbed, a few short clean tears to the edges closed with tape, on the outside of the wrapper, now in protective sleeve). A good to very good clean copy. ***A 'much shortened' version of the original four-volume work of 1959-70.
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The English at the North Pole.

By: VERNE, Jules.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge: nd

Seller ID: 34492

With 129 illustrations by Riou. iv, 314pp, b&w plates and text illustrations. Full calf prize binding of Stonyhurst College [Lancashire]. gilt rules and decorations, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. The spine a little faded and rubbed, slight marking to the boards. A little light foxing early and late, otherwise clean. One plate (at p203) has been loose and is ragged around the edges, but tipped back in. Bookplate of Lt. General Sir Charles Gairdner (Governor of WA 1951-63 and Tasmania 1963-68) on front paste-down, over what is presumably a Stonyhurst prize plate. A good+ clean copy. ***Firs...
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Antarctic Science.

By: WALTON, D.H.W. (ed).

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1987

Seller ID: 15365

4to. 280pp, b&w and colour photographs and illus. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Very good. ISBN 052126233X ***With contributions by C.S.M. Doake, J.R. Dudeney. I. Everson, R.M. Laws and D.W.H. Walton, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge. Introduction by Sir Vivian Fuchs.
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Field Survey and Reduction of Magnetograph Curves / Analysis and Discussion of Magnetograph Curves. Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14. Scientific Reports. Series B, Volume I: Terrestrial Magnetism, Parts I & II.

By: WEBB, Eric Norman & Charles Chree.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Sydney, Government Printer: 1925

Seller ID: 29863

AAE Scientific Reports, Series B, Volume I: Terrestrial Magnetism, Parts I & II. 286pp, 22 text illus, 18 plates (including 23 b&w photographs), 120 tables. Large 4to. Stapled with cloth-backed wrappers drawn on, as issued; head and tail of spine a little rubbed, tiny hole in front wrapper and title-page, otherwise very good clean copy.
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Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years 1860-69.

By: WHYMPER, Edward.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Time-Life Books: 1984

Seller ID: 31036

(Classics of Exploration.) Facsimile of the first edition of 1871. 8vo. xx, 432pp, frontis, numerous plates & text illustrations (some coloured), 6 folding maps/plates at rear (2 coloured). Faux leather with simile spine labels and raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbon marker. A very good clean copy.
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The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott.

By: WILSON, David M.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Little, Brown: 2011

Seller ID: 33990

Square 4to. 192pp, predominantly photographic illustrations. Papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 1408703009
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Birds of the Antarctic.

By: WILSON, Edward.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Blandford Press: 1967

Seller ID: 23926

Edited by Brian Roberts. First edition. Large 4to. 191pp, 316 illus in colour and b&w. Original cloth with dustwrapper (spine repaired, in protective sleeve). The volume is slightly canted, otherwise a good to very good copy. ***From the original illustrations in the Scott Polar Institute, Cambridge.
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