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Published by Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 78th. Meeting, Dublin,1908., 1908
Seller: Cosmo Books, Shropshire., United Kingdom
First Edition
Disbound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 3 pages. Note; this is an original article separated from the volume, not a reprint or copy. Quantity Available: 1. Category: British Association for the Advancement of Science; Inventory No: 152499. Cosmo Books : 26 years selling on ABE; 26 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.
HARDCOVER. Condition: Fair. 1st edition. 240pp. 8vo in blue cloth. B&W illustrations. Cover wear, foxing to textblock edges, some soiling to text.
Published by Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1933
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3rd impression. Bookplate from a previous owner. 3rd impression, 1933. Publication of 240 pages. Frontispiece. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, slightly faded marks and the edges are a little frayed. There is sporadic foxing around the block of the book and on the early pages but very little in the body of the book. The text within the book is bright and clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by Thornton Butterworth, London. 1933. Third impression., 1933
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
8vo., 240pp, with black and white illustrations. A fair hardback copy in discoloured cloth with faded spine and small tears to head of spine. Foxed and toned fore edges and offsetting to endpapers. Binding canted. Previous owner's signature.
8vo., 240pp, with black and white illustrations. Original cloth with faded backstrip., prize label, a very good copy. The Antarctic experience of Capt. L.E.G. Oates.
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd January 1942, London , 3rd Impression, 1942
Seller: E.J Morten Booksellers BA, MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
Hb original green cloth 240pp,frontisplate and 9 illustrations ink inscription to fep, sunned spine lightly shaken binding . A biography of Captain Oates of Scott of the Antarctic fame. A Good+ copy.
Published by Thornton Butterworth, London, 1933
Seller: Arty Bees Books, Wellington, New Zealand
Book
Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Third Impression. Purple cloth has faded spine which extends onto front and back and along top edge. White paint? spots on front. Spine ends and corners bumped and top of spine is damaged. Some minor holes along edge of spine. Hinge cracked inside e/p at rear but binding tight. 240pp. Previous owner's name embossed on front e/p. Some foxing, particularly of e/p's. Musty.
Published by Blackie, 1938
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The boards are a bit marked and worn. Soundly bound. Some tanning and library markings. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by Thornton Butterworth 1933, 1933
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
FIRST EDITION, octavo, purple buckram boards, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, 240pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, heavy fading to spine & board edges, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims, moderate cracking to some gutters, item between pgs 10-11 missing).
Published by Blackie and Son, London, 1938
Seller: BOPBooks, Tauranga, BOP, New Zealand
Book
Hardcover. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. Photos, Maps (illustrator). 1st. When in mid-1901 the author accepted an offer to be physicist with Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Royal Geographic Society Antarctic Expedition he was less than a year back from his first venture to the southern polar regions. It was Christmas Eve 1901 when the Discovery, specially built for the expedition, sailed fromLyttelton, NZ for the Antarctic, on Scott's first and successful exploration voyage there. The findings of this epic undertaking have largely been overshadowed by the second Scott Antarctic mission in which he and his companions perished while returning from their ill-fated trek to the South Pole. Bernacchi's story of the expedition is a very informative, human and compelling tale of early polar exploration with its fascination, dangers, discoveries and companionship. Particulary interesting is the section on Antarctic Phenomena covering marine life, fauna, flora, climate and geophysics, sea and land ice, geology and fossils. Scarce in this condition. Blue hard covers with gilt spine titles VG+ with trace wear lower edges, spine extremities, corners, small inked name/date, top right FFEP, text block otherwise excellent with occasional sprinkle foxing. 240 pages including biographical notes, index, 56 b/w plates including plan of Discovery, map front e/papers, two fold out maps, four maps (two pages) seasonal whale distribution. An excellent copy of a fine book.
Published by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1942
Seller: Voltaire and Rousseau Bookshop, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. (BBB1) thri impression in the keystone library; original d/j has some wear to the edges and marked a little; cloth boards has one or two marks on the front but oerall clean; fore edges slightly marked; very clean throughout; photographs upon request.
Published by Blackie & Son, London, 1928
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. 1st Edition. Ex Libary copy so has stamps on inside front board. book.
Published by South Latitude Research Limited in asociation with Peter J. Skellerup, R1 C.B.E., New Zealand, 1998
Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New Zealand
First Edition
Hb. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition. Clean navy blue cloth on boards with gilt titles and embossed gilt sailing ship on front of cover. Small indent to rear boards foot edge. Frontis: b/w photograph of Louis Charles Bernacchi c. 1898 - Elaine Bernacchi. Nice clean contents. Generous colour & b/w illustrations. Binding is As New. Rep pocket: fldg maps, As New. 270p Dj: clean jacket.
Published by Blackie & Son (1938), London, 1938
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No signatures. Some rubbing to ends of spine. A couple of 1/4" tears at head and tail of spine. 3/8" tear to cloth at head of spine. ; xv, [1], 240 pages + plates + folding map. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 213mm x 132mm. "The long line of explorers of the Southern Seas extends back into Spanish days, and the work was taken up by those large-hearted Elizabethans who did really feel the 'frost and cold, the ice and snow, and whales and all that move in the waters did bless the Lord and did magnify Him for ever'. The line passes down from sailing ships to steamships until to-day we stand with the aeroplane." - the opening paragraph. ; 8vo.
Published by Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1935
Seller: Oakholm Books, Aberfeldy, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Gift inscription dated 1935 inside. Edges lightly spotted. Binding very sound; white titles on spine a little rubbed. Some wear to unclipped jacket, spine darkened; now in protective film. A very good, clean copy of the first impression of the Keystone Library edition.
Published by Blackie, 1938
Seller: Anytime Books, London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Ex-lib. pp. xv, 240pp. Rebound by library; very solid. Maps.
Published by London and Glasgow Blackie & Son 1938, 1938
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Book First Edition
Condition: very good. 1st Edition. xv,240pp. Octavo in original dark blue cloth with front endpaper map and plates (both sides) from photos,etc, illustrations (maps) and 2 folding maps. Some light foxing, primarily to edges with some minor wear to title page, from removal of label? very good Spence 129.
Published by Blackie & Son Limited, London & Glasgow, 1938
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: VG-. First Edition. 240 pages in very good condition; outer edges and endpapers a little yellowed and foxed. With plates and maps. Front endpapers illustrated with a map; previous owner's name and address on the reverse of the ffep. Blue hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. Spine faded, small stains. Light wear on corners and edges. VG-.
Published by Thornton Butterworth, London, 1935
Seller: Polar Books, Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Early Edition. 2nd Keystone Library impression; 240 pages, 8 plates, 2 double-page maps. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket tatty, closed repair. Covers bumped, spine sunned, foxing to page edges,discrete inscriptions dated 1936 front end cover. Contents clean. Biography of Captain Lawrence Edward Grace "No Surrender" Oates. who died with Captain Scott on the return from the South Pole in 1912. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 969.
Published by Blackie and Son, 1938
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Book First Edition
hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. complete with all plates and maps. the jacket is torn and creased. foxing and markings throughout the pages. binding is intact. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by London and Glasgow Blackie & Son 1938 First Edition, 1938
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Book First Edition
Condition: good to very good. 1st Edition. xv,240pp. Octavo in original dark blue cloth with front endpaper map and plates (both sides) from photos,etc, illustrations (maps) and 2 folding maps. Covers slightly marked on the front and rear boards else a tight clean copy. Spence 129. Inscribed on the half title "Many Happy Returns " L." Oct, 1941. We believe this to be Bernacchi's handwriting.
Published by London and Glasgow Blackie & Son 1938, 1938
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Book First Edition
Condition: very good. 1st Edition. xv,240pp. Octavo in original dark blue cloth with front endpaper map and plates (both sides) from photos,etc, illustrations (maps) and 2 folding maps. very good Spence 129.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). A first edition of L C Bernacchi's Saga of the "Discovery". With 56 plates and 4 maps. An Austrian-British astronomer and physicist, L C Bernacchi was a polar explorer during the 'Golden Age of Antarctic exploration'. In a cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to spine. Light rubbing and small watermark to rear board. Small wear mark to front board. Light browning to pastedowns and free-endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the occasional spot. Very Good. book.
Published by London and Glasgow Blackie & Son 1938, 1938
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Book First Edition
Condition: very good. 1st Edition. xv,240pp. Octavo in original dark blue cloth and worn dust jacket with front endpaper map and plates (both sides) from photos,etc., illustrations (maps) and 2 folding maps. Dust jacket missing large chunk at top of spine and smaller piece foot of spine. very good Spence 129.
Publication Date: 1935
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd. 1935. 8vo. Orig. cloth spine faded. 240pp. With frontisp. 2 double-page maps and 7 full-page plates. Some light foxing to prelims otherwise fine. NOTE: A biography of Captain Lawrence E.G. Oates Antarctic Explorer.
Publication Date: 1938
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
London: Blackie & Son 1938. 8vo. Orig. cloth. xvi 240pp. With 48 full-page plates 2 folding maps text-map and front endpaper map. 1st ed. The autograph of 'V. Mainwaring' laid-in on title-page. Spence 129. Rare. NOTE: Includes account of the BANZARE voyages led by Douglas Mawson.
Published by The Royal Society, London, 1908
First Edition
Maroon buckram backed cloth. First Edition. 320mm x 230mm (13" x 9"). iv, 192pp. 2 coloured maps, 21 plates including one folding and 7 of the aurora borealis in colour. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. G+ : in good condition plus without dust jacket. Lower board marked. Spine rubbed with light wear to head. Contents VG.
Published by London Smith, Elder, and Co. but, Orskey-Bonham-Niner 1907, 1914, but 2002, 2002
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
4 volumes, including the previously unpublished fourth volume. First Editions of each of the facsimile volumes, first edition of the fourth volume, One of only 350 sets produced and published. Complete with all maps including folding, many coloured and black and white plates and photographs, many tipped on, and numerous illustrations and decorations throughout the text. Folio, publisher s original dark blue cloth, upper covers lettered in gilt and decorated pictorially with scenes from the journey surrounded by gilt tooled decorative borders, the spines lettered in gilt. xiv, (1), [2]-Nos.I-V (April 1902-August 1902); pp.vii, (4), -Nos. VI-Viii (April 1903-August 1903); pp. xv, [1], 160 (April - October 1911; pp. xii, [2], 227 (Midwinter Day 1912) pp. A pristine set, as mint. RARE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY LIMITED FACSIMILE EDITION OF THE FIRST THREE VOLUMES AND THE FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION OF VOLUME IV. A MASTERWORK AND CORNERSTONE IN THE ANTARCTIC OEUVRE. In this scarce and highly important work, the first two volumes reproduce exactly, in an unedited manner, the typescript journal prepared and produced by the members of the Discovery expedition; Volume III, issued seven years after the first two volumes in 1914, is the reproduction of the typescript (in blue print) of the journal kept by the members of the Terra Nova expedition. Vol. IV, edited by Apsley Cherry-Garrard" is published here for the first time. The South Polar Times" was produced by the members of these two expeditions for their own entertainment. From the South Polar Times" Prospectus: "During the Antarctic winter of 1912 and 1903, the officers of the National Antarctic Expedition on board the Discovery, among other diversions wherewith to lighten the long and dreary darkness, brought out at monthly intervals a periodical to which they gave the name of The South Polar Times. In this they followed the example of the great national expeditions of past generations to the other end of the Earth; but it is no exaggeration to say that The South Polar Times, in literary quality, in variety, and especially in its artistic features, has never been equaled in similar conditions. It was edited in the first year by Lieutenant Ernest Shackleton, and in the second year by Mr. Bernacchi, and ws contributed to not only by Captain Scott and the officers and scientific staff, but also by the men. The contents of The South Polar Times range over a wide field, grave and gay, scientific and humorous, prose and poetry. It contains a diary of the events of each month, a record of the proceedings of the local Debating Society, a monthly acrostic, humorous notes, besides articles of a more solid nature, as well as stories, sketches of various kinds, and poems of a standard considerably above the average. But perhaps the most striking feature about The South Polar TImes is the numerous artistic productions disseminated throughout the volumes, both in colour and in black and white. The coloured sketches by Dr. Wilson, of the animal life in this remote part of the Antarctic region, in artistic quality and in faithfulness to Nature would be difficult to surpass. The coloured sketches of penguin life in the text are of exquisite delicacy, while many of the black and white sketches are masterpieces in their way, not only in drawing but often in humour. Another strking feature is the silhouettes of different members of the staff, while the coloured caricatures of the officers and scientific members of the Expedition, by the youngest on board, would do credit to the artists of "Vanity Fair". But no amount of description could convey anything like an adequate idea of the many features which characterise this unique production. The eight volumes cover something like 400 quarto pages, scarcely one of which is without its illustration, coloured or uncoloured, in the text or as a separate plate, illustrating life on board, portraits, caricatures, interiors, scenery, animal life, plant life, instruments, flags, coats of arms, sledging, sport, ad many other things. The South Polar Times is beautifully type-written on one side of the page." It is especially difficult to find the complete 4-volume set in such fine condition as all four of the volumes are in exceptionally bright and pristine condition both internally and externally. The owner of these volumes will possess an exact reproduction of the original "South Polar Times" which appeared month by month during the winters of 1902-3, produced as they were for the sole edification of our small company of explorers in the Discovery, then held fast in the Antarctic Ice." Thus begins Captain Scott's preface to the three volumes of short stories, essays, caricatures, and drawings edited by Shackleton, which became a major diversion for the men on board the Discovery during the long sunless winter from 23rd April until 21st August. Spence, 1094.
Publication Date: 1914
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First limited edition. 3 vols. Volume I April to August 1902 [Volume II April to August 1903], [April to October, 1911]. Vols. I & II, no. 136 of 250 copies vol. III no 216 of 350. Numerous illustrations throughout many in colour. Folio. Original pictorial cloth, gilt, some wear & repair to headcaps. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1907- ?The owner of these volumes will possess an exact reproduction of the original ?South Polar Times? which appeared month by month during the winters of 1902-3, produced as they were for the sole edification of our small company of explorers in the Discovery, then held fast in the Antarctic Ice.? Thus begins Captain Scott's preface to the South Polar Times, which became a major diversion for the men on board the Discovery during the long sunless winter from 23rd April until 21st August. Scott wrote of it more fully in the official account: ?The scheme for publication was discussed long before the sun left us, and by general consent Shackleton was appointed editor. It was decided that each number should contain besides the editorial, a summary of the events and meteorological conditions of the past month, certain scientifically instructive articles dealing with our work and our surroundings, and certain others written in a lighter vein. As the scheme developed it was found that other features, such as full-page caricatures, acrostics, and puzzles could be added; and now each month sees the production of a stout volume which is read with much interest and amusement by everyone.? Shackleton ?was responsible for the most famous examples of printing in the Antarctic. In addition to the first book printed in Antarctica, Aurora Australia (1907), Shackleton oversaw and contributed to the South Polar Times, first published on Scott's expedition to Antarctica on the Discovery, and again on Scott's fatal Terra Nova expedition of 1911-1914. Shackleton was also a contributor to the Antarctic Petrel, printed during his Nimrod expedition of 1907-09? (Stam & Stam). Rosove, 287.A1; Spence, 1094; Scott, R.F. The Voyage of the Discovery (London, 1905), vol. I, p.362; Stam, David & Deidre, ?Bending Time: The Function of Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Polar Naval Expeditions? in Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter, 2008), p.312.CHAR(13) + CHAR(10).