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London: Academic Press, 1970. 2 VOLUMES-COMPLETE. xx, 604pp; x, pp608-998pp, index, maps (1 folding), tables, diagrams, references. Or red cloth in jackets. Volume 2 price clipped. Prev owner name on front free endpapers. Minor wear to bottom edges of boards. published for the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1972. HEAVY. vii, 499pp, indexes, sources. Blue cloth, no jacket. Spine slightly faded, slight thumb soiling to bottom page corners, endpapers replaced. Important Antarctic bibliographic reference with listings under 13 subject headings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 4to.

Adelaide: Irene Gale, 2011. 224pp, index, bw ills. Pictorial card. Minor edge wear to cover. Stan Taylor was a fireman aboard the Aurora in 1912 on its voyage to Antarctica to collect Douglas Mawson and the men of the Australian Antarctic Expedition. He was not supposed to keep a diary or take photographs, as the expedition's activities were deeemed to be the exclusive preserve of the Secretary of the Expedition and the Official Photographer. However, he did both. While his photographs are not exceptional his daily diary gives a vivid picture of the conditions people lived and worked under in the early exploration of the southern continent.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Small 4to.

Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1978. HEAVY. v, 495pp, indexes, sources. Blue cloth, no jacket. Spine slightly faded, slight thumb soiling to bottom page corners, endpapers replaced. Important Antarctic bibliographic reference with listings under 13 subject headings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 4to.

Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1974. HEAVY. v, 467pp, indexes, sources. Blue cloth, no jacket. Spine slightly faded, slight thumb soiling to bottom page corners, light foxing to page edges, endpapers replaced. Important Antarctic bibliographic reference with listings under 13 subject headings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 4to.

Washington D.C.: National Science Foundation, 1966. HEAVY. v, 521pp, indexes, sources. Blue cloth, no jacket. Spine slightly faded, slight thumb soiling to bottom page corners, endpapers replaced. Important Antarctic bibliographic reference with listings under 13 subject headings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 4to.

Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1979. HEAVY. v, 498pp, indexes, sources. Blue cloth, no jacket. Spine slightly faded, slight thumb soiling to bottom page corners. Important Antarctic bibliographic reference with listings under 13 subject headings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 4to.

Hobart: The Adult Education Board of Tasmania., 1964. 12pp. Or light blue wraps titled in red. Faded/toned at spine. A prediction of what the future held for the Antarctic continent 20 years ahead.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1971. HEAVY. vii, 491pp, indexes, sources. Blue cloth, no jacket. Spine slightly faded, slight thumb soiling to bottom page corners, endpapers replaced. Important Antarctic bibliographic reference with listings under 13 subject headings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 4to.

Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1968. HEAVY. vii, 491pp, indexes, sources. Blue cloth, no jacket. Spine slightly faded, slight thumb soiling to bottom page corners, damp marked at top spine corner of first 10 pages, endpapers replaced. Important Antarctic bibliographic reference with listings under 13 subject headings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 4to.

Melbourne: The Five Mile Press, 2007. HEAVY (additional postage required outside Australia). 203pp, num col photographs (most full page). Or boards in jacket. Near new. Stunning collection of photographs revealing the true state of our global ecosystem and the threat from climate change.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Oblong Folio.

Sydney: Simon & Schuster Australia, 2008. VERY HEAVY. 400pp, index, gazetteer, 700+ colour ills, numerous maps. Or pictorial boards in like slipcase. Other than a school prize bookplate on the front free endpaper the book is near new. Massive work on the ecology, geology, wildlife and exploration of Antarctica.. First Australian Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Slipcase. 4to.

Washington D.C.: National Science Foundation, 1965. HEAVY. vi, 506pp, indexes, sources. Blue cloth, no jacket. Spine slightly faded, slight thumb soiling to bottom page corners, a bit musty. Important Antarctic bibliographic reference with listings under 13 subject headings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 4to.

Wellington: Millwood Press, 1981. xvii, 192pp, refrences, bw ills, maps. Or blue cloth in jacket. Very slight edge wear to jacket. Ten of the lesser known Antarctic explorers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts Inc., 1956. xi, 399pp, index, bw ills, endpaper maps. Cloth backed boards in jacket. The jacket is quite heavily worn and has been laid onto card to prevent further deterioration, price clipped, moderate foxing to page edges, small bumps to front corners. The story of Archibald Lang Fleming (the Flying Bishop), First Bishop of the Arctic, who spent 40 years among the Esquimeax preparing them for civilization.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo.

London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1870. x, 510pp, glosary, notes, folding map, num bw ills- all edges gilt. Rebound with original red pictorial cloth laid on to front, rear and spine. Bottom half of map missing with further loss to lower left of remaining half, occasional foxing.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo.

London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1902. x, 444pp, glosary, num bw ills. Blue cloth. Boards bright but spine faded. Endpapers replaced, tissue guard for frontis foxed.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1962. viii, 340pp, index, bw ills, endpaper maps. Or blue cloth in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket. Biography of Canadian Polar explorer who undertook a series of Arctic expeditions spanning almost half a century.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: The Hakluyt Society, 2003. lxi, 242pp, index, works cited, few bw ills. Or blue cloth in jacket. Tiny (1mm) tear at bottom of spine of jacket. Scoreby's logs were lengthy journals that included scientific records and social and religious comment as well as detailed descriptions of navigation and whaling.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Small 4to.

Sydney: Alfred James Kent, Government Printer, 1925. 191pp + 6 plates (1 colour), 15 text figures. Or wraps. Chipped at base of spine, stamp of Royal Society Qld (and cancelled stamp) on front cover. Issued September, 1925. Scientific report from the Australasian Antarctic expedition 1911-14 under the leadership of Sir Douglas Mawson.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.