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19094440<p>Heinemann London 1909. First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Signed by persons connected with book. In 1909 The Heart of The Antarctic was produced as a Deluxe Special Vellum Binding Issue and limited to 300 copies. The edition contained 2 sheets of signatures 1 from the British participants 14 men of the shore party and 1 from the Australian participants of the shore party 2 men. The sheets would have been signed prior to binding with some spares in case of accidents. This is one of the spares a single unbound sheet of signatures of the British participants of the shore party there is a crease where the sheet has been folded at some time. The signatures are all original. The signatures are of Shackleton Priestley Wild Joyce Day Marston Murray Brocklehurst Adams MacKay ArmytageMarshall Mackintosh & Roberts. The watermarks on the unbound sheet are similar to those found in the bound copy of The Antarctic Book. The watermark on the page of signatures shows part of SCRIVIA FINE and shield with a capital letter T. A rare opportunity to purchase a unique piece on Antarctic history from the Heroic Era Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Signed by persons connected with book. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4440. .</p> Heinemann
1911400<p>William Heinemann London 1911. Early Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. 1911 One Volume Edition abridged edition of "The Heart of the Antarctic" 1st edition thus: SIGNED by Ernest Shackleton x 255 pages illustrated b/w photos map diagrams. Original covers no dust jacket. Signed "To Miss A.F. Silborn With the author's Compliments E H Shackleton on front end paper in ink. Shelf wear contents clean. Initially published as a Juvenille younger readers edition it was considerd by the publisher "a great success". Rosove A305. Originally published in two volumes in 1909 this 1911 issue presents the expedition narrative in a more accessible single-volume format retaining the core account of one of the great heroic-age polar ventures. A nice copy of a edition being signed by Ernest Shackleton adds considerably to the rarity and the value. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 400. .</p> William Heinemann, hardcover
19235280Various locations in the American Southwest and West 1923. About very good. Two oblong folio photograph albums bound in brown pebbled leather each titled in gilt on front cover "WANDERLUST" containing a total of 266 full-page vernacular and professional photographs. First albums: 146 leaves illustrated with 128 full-page landscape photographs each around 6 x 8 inches or slightly larger and occasional manuscript or hand-fashioned sectional title pages and maps. Second volume: 148 leaves illustrated with 138 photographs and occasional manuscript or hand-fashioned sectional title pages. All contents mounted one per page to recto of each leaf. Spines perished but holding strong boards worn scuffed and soiled. Contents noticeably curled with minor to moderate dust-soiling throughout. A studio photograph of a young man is laid-in to the first album likely the compiler of the albums but sadly unidentified. An elaborately-produced pair of vernacular photograph albums documenting an epic cross-country train excursion in 1923 by a well-to-do but anonymous traveler from New York comprised of over 260 full-page photographs. The photographs are a mixture of silver gelatin images printing out paper prints handcolored photographs and a handful of cyanotypes. Most of the images appear to be taken by the traveler en route but some images may have been bought along the way. The images largely picture the landscape or architecture seen along the way with a healthy number of images showing the railroad and the railcars themselves with many images taken at train depots. The occasional manuscript sectional title pages denote the regions of travel as the compiler moved west to California and then eventually back east towards home.<br /> <br /> The first album begins with a manuscript title leaf quoting the text of Gerald Gould's poem "Wanderlust" supplemented by two small drawings and two thumbnail photographs. A map on the second leaf traces the voyage from New York down through the American South and Southwest to California and back to New York through Arizona Colorado and the Midwest. Thereafter the album is comprised mostly of full-page photographs grouped together by location with anywhere from a few to several images per section. The first section in the first album shows the first major stop on the trip -- Washington D.C. and Mount Vernon; this section contains photographs of the Capitol the Lincoln Monument other D.C. buildings and several on the grounds of George Washington's home at Mount Vernon. The album then includes sections featuring New Orleans six photographs; the route between New Orleans and El Paso five images including the train depot at Langtry Texas; El Paso five shots featuring the city and street views; Juarez Mexico eight shots mostly either street scenes or a bullfight; "Thru New Mexico and Arizona" four images; The Apache Trail in Arizona nineteen shots mostly desert landscapes but with some buildings along the trail; and onward through the Carriso Gorge seven photos to California beginning at Coronado Beach eight photographs. The remainder of the first album features California locations namely San Diego sixteen images mostly missions; Pasadena ten photos mostly featuring gardens; Catalina Island eight shots of the island scenery or the bay; Los Angeles eight views in Santa Monica Venice and Ocean Park; and ending with fourteen images featuring missions and other notable structures in Santa Barbara.<br /> <br /> The second volume picks up the excursion in Del Monte California featuring fifteen scenes in Carmel by the Sea and Monterey. The photographic journey of California then continues to Santa Cruz and the Big Trees five shots; San Francisco eleven views around the city and in the Japanese gardens; Mt. Tamalpais a dozen shots of elevated vistas big trees and forests; Yosemite National Park twenty park views; Mariposa Big Trees seven shots; and ends with the Glenwood Mission Inn in Riverside twenty-two images of the hotel grounds and other local scenery and missions around Riverside. The remainder of the album features photographs from the Grand Canyon in Arizona twenty-six images mostly landscapes but with a few featuring Native American ceremonies and Colorado Springs twenty landscapes and other views of the city surrounding desert Pikes Peak and so forth. Concerned mostly with scenery of the American South Southwest and West Coast the compiler did not see fit to record photographs of the remainder of his trip back home to New York. In addition to the information contained in the photographs here the elaborate materiality custom matching albums with matching gilt titles to the front board handcrafted sectional title pages the hand-drawn and traced map and the nature of the organization of the albums arranged in the order of travel from east to west and back east again speaks volumes about the importance the compiler placed on the trip.<br /> <br /> Substantially documented western travel albums are growing rare in the market and the present example is one of the most carefully-assembled examples we have ever seen. unknown
1934158433Peiping.: Peiyang Press. circa1934. Coloured folding plan of Peking with original envelope. 60 x 50cm. A few neat repairs at folds two panels evenly browned on reverse. A very good copy of a scarce pictorial plan with its envelope. This delightful and scarce pictorial map of Peking with landmarks and streets in romanised Chinese with occasional Chinese characters is surprisingly scarce. Although apparently issued in several editions in the 1920s and 30s it appears relatively infrequently on the market. The divisions of the Legation District are indicated by their flags - this edition shows the German Legation by use of the black white and red bands of the German flag. This flag which was no longer used after 1935 helps date this edition. Other landmarks and attractions shown included theatres foreign shopping area adjacent to the legations quarter Liu Li Chang Curio District the racecourse the many city gates etc. . Peiyang Press. unknown
1925100676<p>New York and London 1925-1926. 1925-1926. Very good. - 1 An autograph letter 1 & 1/4 pages signed "Rosita Forbes". Writing from 28 Wilton Place London on May 23 1924 Rosita Forbes is concerned with her tax liabilities in England as a result of her just completed first American lecture tour. She addresses a Miss Smith of the Pond Bureau asking that should "British Income Tax people" inquire about her tour and her contracts with the Pond Bureau "please give no information of any sort but refer the questioners to us. Next time I come to U.S.A. I shall have to have a financial secretary to keep accounts!". She suggests she could return in October "but I don't want to arrive in America more than one day before my first lecture. Your country is too expensive."</p><p>2 A cablegram from Forbes dated May 9 1925: "AVAILABLE AMERICAN LECTURES FROM NOVEMBER FIRST OR EARLIER TILL MARCH CABLE CONFIRMATION."</p><p>3 A 3-page autograph letter 7 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide "Rosita Forbes". Writing from 28 Wilton Place London on May 9 1925 Forbes addresses Pond stating that she has "always been ready to come out to U.S.A. by Oct. 30th. I cabled you to this effect yesterday.I sent you a quantity of press cuttings & a good Abyssinian dress picture a week ago. Now I send you some snapshots & a map with our complete route on it.I don't see how Weigall & I can clash because our subjects are so different.I hope this time you will save on railway fares!!!! Please try & arrange lectures in groups if possible! Macaulay is going to publish my Abyssinian book 'From Red Sea to Blue Nile' & also a novel 'Wings Aflame' in the autumn. Best of luck to us both!!!!" The title "Wings Aflame" may be a reference to her novel "If the Gods Laugh" published in 1925.</p><p>4 A retained carbon of Pond's cable dated May 13 1925: "NOVEMBER ONE TO MARCH SATISFACTORY CAN YOU REMAIN TO MARCH THIRTEEN HAVE ENGAGEMENT BOOK FOR NINTH"</p><p>5 A return cable from Forbes dated May 14 1925: "YES FORBES"</p><p>6 A retained carbon of Pond's letter dated June 11 1925 addressed to "My Dear Lady Rosita". In his letter Pond complains "I note that Macaulay has the books. I'm sorry one of the better publishers was not selected for they do publish rather sensational stuff". He goes on to comment about Abyssinian controversies. "Marian C. Cooper asks me to ask you not to judge his ideas of Abyssinia by his articles in ASIA which were edited without his consent nor the film The Golden Prince which was made up without his aid from some pictures he and Schoedsack made. .Powell in his book on Abyssinia criticized Cooper for things he had done and he does not wish you too to join in the hue and cry."</p><p>7 Retained carbon of Pond's June 16 1925 cable: "CAN I USE ABYSSINIAN PHOTOS FOR NEWSPAPER PUBLICITY ARTICLES.".</p><p>8 A cablegram from Forbes dated June 18 1925: "FORBES ANXIOUS SELL ARTICLES AND PHOTOGRAPHS ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION CONSULT KENNADAY 215 WEST 33RD STREET AND DO WHAT BOTH CONSIDER BEST.".</p><p>9 Retained carbon of Pond's reply to Forbes cablegram now addressing her as "My dear Mrs. McGrath". "Paul Kennaday tells me that he has not been able to place your articles about Abyssinia. I am awfully sorry that this has not been done for we need publicity in this country to secure business and so far no one knows that you have been in Abyssinia or made a new journey.Things so far have not been going as good as I like but this does not mean that there will be no tour and a fairly good one. If you find that English bookings are going exceedingly well I suggest that you give Mr. Christy more time in November."</p><p>10 A 2-page autograph letter 5-3/4 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide on "28 Wilton Place" letterhead signed "Rosita Forbes". The letter dated September 15 1925 overlaps with Pond's later letter of September 18th. "I am so sorry you are having trouble over my American tour - what bad luck. I think under the circumstances it would probably be better if I arrived on January 1st & stayed till early April.Would you mind on receipt of this letter cabling me the date you consider most suitable for me to come over as I have to arrange the letting of my house which is a matter needing time. I don't mind what date I come but as living is very expensive in U.S.A. I don't want to come until there is contract business in view!!".</p><p>11 A retained carbon of Pond's September 18 1925 letter to Forbes suggesting that the tour be moved forward to January "to commence your tour with your booking in Haverhill Massachusetts on January 5th."</p><p>12 A retained carbon of Pond's letter responding to Forbes letter of September 15. Dated September 25 1925 Pond writes "I think we are both agreed that it is better for you to arrive in early January. I am not cabling you about this as I wrote you on September 18th and you know my point of view. Your first engagement at present is January 5th."</p><p>13 A cablegram from Forbes dated September 29 1925: "DELIGHTED ARRIVE JANUARY FIRST / ROSITA".</p><p>14 A retained carbon of a letter from Pond dated October 8 1925 concerning a booking. "The Chicago Geographic Society is very anxious to have you this year but they are unable to pay more than one hundred $100.00 dollars. Are you willing to allow me to book you with them I giving you the minimum rate of seventy-five $75.00 dollars which was in force last year and retaining twenty-five $25.00 dollars to cover my own expense"</p><p>15 A 2-page autograph letter 7 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide on "Broadlands Romsey Hampshire" letterhead signed "Rosita Forbes". Forbes sends the first sheet of her contract not here present and pictures for her lectures. "I shall probably have to come over on the 'Paris' of the Compagnie Transatlantique leaving Plymouth on the 16th Dec. as I can probably get better accommodation on her as I have done a good deal of writing for the Company.I am so sorry you are having so much trouble over my tour for I've always told everyone that of all the business men all over the world I've come in contact with you are the best to work with.".</p><p>16 A retained carbon of a letter from Pond dated October 30 1925 encouraging Forbes to come later than the December date she suggested. "There will really be nothing doing here until your first lecture on January 5th."</p><p>17 A 2-page autograph letter 5-3/4 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide on "28 Wilton Place" letterhead signed "Rosita Forbes". The letter dated October 30 ok's the arrangements with the Chicago Geographical Society but questions "Won't the National or American Geographical Socs. have me this time" She confirms her early arrival in New York and makes a request "Please secure an inexpensive room with bath somewhere in N.Y. Consult Miss Smith because you are not very good my friend at cheap hotels!!!!"</p><p>18 A 2-page autograph letter 5-3/4 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide on "28 Wilton Place" letterhead signed "Rosita Forbes". Addressing "Mr. Pond or Miss Smith" Forbes reaffirms her December arrival in New York. "Don't you think you cd. induce some of the newspapers to interview me on 'Curious Xmases' or 'My most extraordinary Xmas'. It wd. make publicity. I spent one Xmas in camp in the African desert on my way to Kafara. Another in an Arabian harem one in Persia & in Abyssinia they have a special ceremonial."</p><p>19 In a retained carbon of a Pond letter dated November 13 1925 he expresses his pleasure that Forbes has accepted the terms for the Chicago Geographical Society lecture. "The National Geographic which wanted you so eagerly before has now passed you by and so has the American. They are strange people."</p><p>20 A 2-page autograph letter 7 inches high by 4-3/8 inches wide on "The Nook Sunningdale" letterhead signed "Rosita Forbes". In the letter dated November 21 Forbes reassures Pond that despite her early arrival he doesn't ".have to bother at all about me till you want me to lecture.Mr. Wingate of the Dorland Agency is going to communicate with you re publicity on arrival as I've just written the feature article for the February issue of the Monitor on 'Morocco'".</p><p>21 In a retained carbon of a letter dated November 30 1925 Pond regrets that it is too late to place an article on various Christmases with any of the syndicates or magazine sections of newspapers. However he has an idea: "Iola Plaxton spent some time in Fleet Street as the special correspondent for the Daily and Sunday Express is now back in New York and keen to meet you. .she concocted a scheme provided you approved of your giving her an exclusive interview on this particular theme the minute you arrive. Meantime she is going to get an editor lined up to take it."</p><p>22 Retained copy of a cablegram dated December 22 1925: "ROSITA FORBES STEAMER 'PARIS' NY. RESERVED ROOM AT WALDORF ASTORIA. POND."</p><p>23 An undated promotional letter from The Pond Bureau signed in blue ink by James B. Pond and titled "Rosita Forbes Returns". In the letter he solicits future lecture possibilities. "Although Rosita Forbes has been announced before you are again reminded of her return tour. If you can still find a place for her do so for you will like her and she will please you. Send for open dates and terms."</p><p>24 An autograph letter 9-3/8 inches high by 6 inches wide on "Hotel Webster New York" letterhead. Dated January 7 1926 Forbes writes to the Pond office manager "Miss Smith" after her first lectures in Haverhill Mass. "I enclose two endorsed cheques value 200 $ & 230 $ - a long bill for steamer fare 2 lectures & expenses.Please send me here - I've left the Shelton too noisy - the 2 photos I gave to Mr. Pond the first day I saw him & ask him to send me a cheque soon as I have 10 dollars 1 cent a French franc & a half crown left in the world." Signed "Yrs. R.F."</p><p>25 On a "Hotel Webster New York" envelope Forbes notes her expenses: "They only gave me enclosed 150 dollars at Passaic last night instead of 200 as per contract". She then lists her expenses including a taxi fare totalling $2.52. Pond notes that he has paid the $2.50 and dates the envelope !/12/26 with the note "Remainder due tomorrow $50.00".</p><p>26 An autograph letter 9-3/8 inches high by 6 inches wide on "Hotel Webster New York" letterhead. Dated Jan. 13 -1926 and addressed to "Miss Smith" Forbes sends further financial accounts regarding the Passaic NJ lecture. "If you get a cable for me tomorrow or Friday will you let me know at once as I'm expecting a very important business wire from England. Yrs. wearily - just how you feel too!" Signed "Rosita Forbes".</p><p>27 A January 18 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to George Byron Gordon of the Philadelphia Museum for payment of $150.00 for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked "PAID".</p><p>28 A January 19 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to Forbes detailing payments totaling $213.30 paid to her for expenses and lectures in Passaic NJ and Philadelphia.</p><p>29 A retained carbon of a letter from Pond dated January 19 1926: "When you arrive in Toledo on Thursday A Mrs. Rippon will meet you at th station and will take you to the Hotel Secour."</p><p>30 An autograph letter on 8-3/8 inch high by 5-1/2 inch wide letterhead signed "Rosita Forbes". Writing from the "Fortnightly Club 120 Bellevue Rd Chicago" Forbes informes Pond "I shall not be in U.S.A. on April 7th. I sail on the 'France' on April 3rd. If the Philadelphia Geographical Society want me they'll have to change their lectures round a bit & let me have an earlier date. Yrs. dirtily - is it possible to keep clean in Chicago!" The letter is humorously dated "Jan. 24th. I have reason to believe".</p><p>31 A lengthy 2-page autograph memo on 8 inch high by 6 inch wide notepaper signed "R. F." "Due to Rosita Forbes" Forbes outlines $489.28 in expenses and fees due her for Steamer fare and and Haverhill/Brockton lecture fees & expenses during the early part of January 1926. "Note A. You forgot to tell me that Mrs. Fuller wrote you about Dec. 1 offering me hospitality at Brockton. They were all very angry about it !!!! I cd. only say I had never been told of such an offer." The memo is accompanied by a calculator receipt from Pond's office confirming Forbes' math.</p><p>32 An autograph letter 9-3/8 inches high by 6 inches wide on "Hotel Webster New York" letterhead. Dated "Sunday Jan. 31". Addressing Miss Smith of the Pond Bureau Forbes writes: "I arrived here this morning by the 'Big Four' which only takes 1 night & 1 day instead of yr. nice -sweet - train which takes 2 nights & 1 day!! No letters!!! Please send me .the copy of Raisuli book i.e. "The Sultan of the Mountains: The Life Story of Raisuli" as I must look up some stories in it for an article.Please also let me know how many of Mr. Crane's lectures Vassar Smith Providence Bryn Maur. are arranged & what date" Signed in full "Rosita Forbes".</p><p>33 A 2-page financial memo dated Feb. 1st 1926 handwritten by Rosita Forbes on a folded 7 inch high by 5-1/2 inch wide sheet of "The Fortnightly / Chicago" letterhead. On the first page Forbes notes the amounts due to the Pond Bureau for lectures in Toledo Chicago and St. Louis. On the 2nd page she lists her expenses. The memo is unsigned.</p><p>34 In an autograph letter on 3 sides of a folded sheet of 5 inch high by 4-1/2 inch wide notepaper Forbes complains to Miss Smith of the Pond Bureau "When I asked the Buffalo Athletic Club for cheque they said by contract it was to be mailed to you but they presented me with 25 dollars as they hadn't time to look up the one way fare." She then outlines her expanses and asks that "Mr. Pond .send me a cheque for this before I go to Cambridge on Weds. & wd. you send a p.c. to Toledo & the March lectures asking them to pay me cheques at the end of lecture - otherwise I shall be in a recurrent state of bankruptcy!!" The letter is signed in full "Rosita Forbes" and is stamped "Ans'd Feb 16 1926".</p><p>35 A retained carbon of a letter from Pond to Forbes dated February 16 1926 in which Pond indicates his irritation with her. "I shall greatly appreciate it if when you have a contract calling for payment with me you do not request that a committee make payment with you.Apparently you asked Dr. Gordon in Philadelphia for your fee for he wrote me a rather long letter asking me why I had financial troubles with my lecturers. This give a very bad impression.I have not yet had any word from Brooklyn. The new chairman is apparently disgruntled.It certainly was most unfortunate that you missed Brooklyn and I do hope you will examine your contracts carefully in advance."</p><p>36 A February 13 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to F. A. Coupal of the Buffalo Athletic Club for payment of $250.00 and $19.57 expenses for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked "PAID".</p><p>37 A February 18 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to Charles R. Crane of the Radcliffe College for payment of $200.00 for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked "PAID".</p><p>38 A February 25 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to Isaiah Bowman of the American Geographical Society for payment of $75.00 for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked by Pond "Paid Mrs Forbes". Together with: a Typed Letter Signed dated February 5 1924 from Isaiah Bowman Director of the American Geographical Society praising Forbes lecture given during her first American tour. "She has a most entertaining story to tell and it could hardly be told with greater art."</p><p>39 A February 25 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to Marion Miller of the Toledo Club Toledo Ohio for payment of $200.00 for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked by Pond "did not fill date".</p><p>40 An autograph letter 9-3/8 inches high by 6 inches wide on "Hotel Webster New York" letterhead dated Sat. Feb. 27. "Dear Lady / Here is my bill.I think perhaps you'd better send it me on Monday or I might be penniless!! but most of all I want that poster about my films - 'Red Sea to Blue Nile' which I gave Mr. Pond at the Waldorf.So awfully sorry to bother you." Signed in full on the verso "Rosita Forbes". The bottom edge of the letter has some damage resulting in the loss of a very few letters.</p><p>41 A March 1 1926 carbon of a memo addressed to Rosita Forbes for payments due her of $100.00 and $16.51 expenses for a lecture by Forbes in Cambridge Mass.</p><p>42 A March 3 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to Charles R. Crane of the Mary Wheeler School for payment of $200.00 for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked "PAID".</p><p>43 A 2-page autograph letter 9-3/8 inches high by 6 inches wide on "Hotel Webster New York" letterhead dated March 4. "Dear Miss Smith / I had a letter from the man at Toledo insisting that Mr. Pond had agreed to let him know whether I was coming or not & that the Pond Bureau having failed to write he was justified in believing I was not coming. I think therefore that it is only fair to call Brooklyn & this quits as far as finance is concerned. I lost 100 dollars over Toledo owing to some slight forgetfulness!!!! & you lost 50 dollars over Brooklyn owing to some large forgetfulness!!!! .It was rather awful about Toledo because as i told you I was to be the guest at a big newspaper lunch. So much for this sad business!!".She goes on to outline her plans for lectures up until March 14. Chicago Minneapolis and Decatur Illinois. Signed "Yrs. R. F."</p><p>44 A March 25 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to R.V. Nevins of the Algonquin Club Bridgeport Conn. e for payment of $200.00 plus $5.52 expenses for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked "PAID".</p><p>45 A March 26 1926 retained carbon of a Pond letter. He expresses his disappointment as to the result of Forbes' tour. "I find that you only delivered nineteen professional talks receiving a gross amount for them of $1992.50. Considering your heavy expenses here in the way of living and moving about I am afraid you must have had a considerable loss."</p><p>46 A 2-page autograph memo 9-3/8 inches high by 6 inches wide on "Hotel Webster New York" letterhead dated March 27 1926. The memo outlines Forbes' expenses for her Bridgeport and Montclair lectures and the amounts owed her from the Pond Bureau. The memo is signed "R. Forbes".</p><p>47 An April 14 1926 retained carbon of a Pond letter. He hopes that she had "a pleasant and peaceful" journey home to England. He goes on to mention that she has a brief mention in Gilbert Frankau's newest book "Masterson".</p><p>48 A 2-page autograph letter signed "Rosita Forbes". The letter dated July 2 1931 on 9 inch high by 7 inch wide "Harefield House Harefield Middlesex" letterhead is a response to Pond concerning the lecture possibilities of the English explorer Bertram Thomas. ".before I got your letter I had warmly recommended you to him. I spent most of our lunch with him telling him to go to you but remember he'll be a serious speaker! I've told him he must make his book a bit light & he promised to try". She goes on to recommend the Turkish-Albanian soldier and statesman Izzet Pasha. "Use my name for all its worth with Bertram.</p><p>49 A July 10 1931 retained carbon of Pond's response to Forbes' letter of July 2. "I finally met Bertram Thomas. I found him a very disagreeable individual. I wrote him a letter telling him what I thought of him and he came and apologized to me. From what I know my call down was needed."</p><p>Though Rosita Forbes started travelling at an early age following her marriage to Major Ronald Forbes it wasn't until after a nervous breakdown following her husbands death in World War I that her travels started in earnest. At first she served as an ambulance driver in France during the war and subsequently traveled around the world "by way of American Hawaii Papua Sumatra Java Cochin China Siam." and again back to China where she was taken prisoner during the revolution and ended up doing Red Cross work for the Chinese army. In 1919 she resumed her travels through Africa and the middle-east and was in Jerusalem for the riots of 1920. "From here her journeys are chronicled in her lectures.After her return from Kufra she met and married Col. Arthur McGrath of the British War Office." Astonishingly all this had been accomplished by the time she was thirty years old.</p><p>Rosita Forbes described her journey around the world in her first book "Unconducted Wanderers" 1919. Disguised as a Moslem she travelled across the Libyan desert to the oasis of Kufara from 1920-21. This journey is described by her in "The Secrets of the Sahara: Kufara" 1924.</p> New York and London, 1925-1926.
19195848Various locations in the United States 1919. Very good. 50 leaves illustrated with 198 tipped-in sepia-toned photographs almost all around 5 x 3 inches a handful somewhat smaller all with white ink manuscript captions in English. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black cloth photograph album with "Places and Faces" in gilt on front cover string tied. Moderate wear soiling and minor scuffing to boards. Occasional creasing and minor wear to images. A unique and informative photographic record of an extensive cross-country journey by a young Japanese man from San Francisco to New York in 1918 and 1919. The trip took place between December 1918 and September 1919 beginning in Yokohama. Though the traveler is unnamed he was most likely Fujisawa Tomonosuke the son of the founder of Fujisawa Yakuhin once one of the major pharmaceutical companies in Japan. The company is now called Astellas Pharma Inc. According to a company history Fujisawa Tomonosuke travelled to the United States in 1919 as the company opened a branch in New York. The last page of the present album shows a Buddhist-style memorial with an explanatory caption on the verso which states that Fujisawa Tomokichi Tomonosuke's father built it in 1918 to console thousands of deaths during World War I. The monument still sits in Domyoji Temple near Osaka. Another clue that the album was compiled by Tomonosuke is the practice by the compiler to identify all the subjects in the album by a prefix and their last name except for one who is constantly referred to as "Tom."<br /> <br /> Tomonosuke's journey begins in Yokohama where he boarded the Tenyo Maru which delivered him via Honolulu to San Francisco on December 26 1918. He stayed in San Francisco for about six months and visited numerous locations around the Bay Area including Stanford University the University of California at Berkeley Ocean Beach Seal Rock Golden Gate Park Oakland Lincoln Park and more. In late-May he makes his way to Los Angeles and Pasadena where he visits vast oil fields where one image is captioned "Hundreds of oil wells in Los Angeles" a Southern Pacific Railroad station the zoo Bush Garden and other sites.<br /> <br /> After a few days in southern California Tom sets off across the continent to his presumed ultimate destination of New York briefly visiting Salt Lake City Denver and Chicago before arriving at Niagara Falls by June 3. He includes numerous shots of the falls before arriving in New York City. His stay in New York was extensive and included many sightseeing tours to locations in New York but also New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He includes shots of Bronx Park the Poughkeepsie Bridge the Victory Arch the Statue of Liberty and other sights around Manhattan along withe scenes in Montclair Atlantic Highland and Culver's Lake New Jersey and a few locations in Pennsylvania such as Sawkill Falls on the Delaware River. He also witnessed the commemoration parades for both the American Army's 2nd Division and General Pershing's "Grand Parade Day" in New York City each of which he preserved in a handful of photographs.<br /> <br /> In addition to the variety of the settings the photographs reveal real skill and technique by the photographer. The images are mostly well composed and informative in nature. Despite the fact that the compiler was Japanese all of the captions are written in confident English lending further credence to the notion that the compiler was highly educated and confident as would be the son of the founder of one of Japan's most successful companies. An exceptional annotated vernacular photograph album preserving the adventures of a precocious Japanese business traveller in the United States just after the First World War. unknown
19312702Various locations including Montana Wyoming Missouri California 1931. Very good. 45 leaves illustrated with 185 original photographs from 2.75 x 2 inches to 6.5 x 4 inches the great majority measuring 5.75 x 3.5 inches and a few postcards most with manuscript annotations on the borders of the images or on the album pages. Oblong folio. Contemporary textured black cloth gilt title on front cover string tied. Moderate rubbing to covers bottom edge worn corners creased. Internally clean photographs in very nice shape. A well-annotated vernacular photograph album chronicling about two decades of the travels and experiences of Ray Royse and his family as they trekked from Illinois to California through the Upper West in the first quarter of the 20th century. The Royse family started in Aledo Illinois and numerous photographs feature various family members here. They then traveled through Casper Wyoming Great Falls and Butte Montana and other locations before settling in Long Beach where Ray and his brother-in-law worked at the shipyards. The images here document Ray's training at the Sweeney Automobile & Tractor School in Kansas City driving Harley-Davidson motorcycles attempting to repair a nearly destroyed family sedan visiting the Custer Battlefield and the monument to Buffalo Bill Cody among other western sites scenes in Yellowstone Park and a family drive up Pike's Peak among many others. Ray's efforts to move West reflect the expansion and increasingly wide availability of automobiles and the growing industry in the West following the First World War.<br /> <br /> The photographs here record numerous locations in the American West to which Ray Royse along with his family and friends traveled or worked in in a 1922 Nash and later a Ford Model T. They traveled across the Continental Divide Ray worked for a time at the Anaconda Mines near Great Falls and Butte Montana and later the Standard Oil Refinery at Shelby Montana. Many images show a wrecked Ford Model T with Roy diligently at work trying to repair it before finally resigning his efforts by attaching a sign reading "Rest in Pieces" on the radiator. Another picture shows another Ford weighed down with a huge sack of wool in Bear Creek Wyoming. There are also images emanating from Dublin Gulch near Butte; Livingston Montana; Wind River Canyon in Thermopolis Wyoming; Salt Creek Wyoming; ; and several park scenes in Kansas City. A handful of images feature the Warren family in Butte. Several photographs memorialize the Royse family trip to Yellowstone Park in 1923 with many of the geysers and surrounding landscapes the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone and more. There are also interesting photos from a Royse family drive to the top of Pike's Peak with views from the peak with additional shots from the Garden of the Gods cliff dwellings near Colorado Springs scenes in New Mexico and Arizona in 1929 dams near Great Falls the Beaver Dam in Wyoming a picture of the "Million Dollar Fire" in Casper in 1921 and a beached fifty-five-foot whale in Long Beach dated December 28 1929. Altogether the images clearly illustrate the wandering nature of the Royse family across several states in the American West.<br /> <br /> Ray Royse 1903-1942 was an automobile mechanic metal worker and sheet metal specialist who worked in the Long Beach shipyards from 1929 until 1942 when he was killed in a shipyard accident. He also worked as a coal miner in Wyoming and on the Douglas Sheep Ranch in Wyoming both of which are chronicled in photographs in the present album. He met and married Sylvia Lambert in 1934 in South Dakota before returning to California.<br /> <br /> A wide-ranging and eclectic mixture of original and unique photographs of the West documenting an interesting family who began in Illinois and eventually settled in California. unknown
19393285<p>Macmillan Company New York 1939. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/Good. 1st US Edition: xxi 292 pages photographic frontispiece 32 photographic illustrations on nineteen plates two photographic panoramas on one folding plate double page meteorological table and three sketches to text. Two young and inexperienced junior team members stayed to winter on a tiny islet in the Antarctic in a disused boat a handful of instruments and a scanty stock of provisions. Not only did they survive but they also carried out scientific work. Previous owners signature in pencil on front fly page. Dust jacket has some very minor closed edge minor tears and there is strengthening on the inside. PLUS Transactions of the Zoological Society of London - NOTES ON THE HABITS OF THE GENTOO AND RINGED OR ANTARCTIC PENGUINS. 1938 reprint of the above article; pages 186 to 307. Illustrated with many b/w photos of penguins plus some b/w diagrams and maps. Facinating study of the Gentoo penguins at Waterboat Point Grahamland Antarctica between 1920-1922. Thomas Bagshawe and Maxime Charles Lester lived in an upturned waterboat at "Waterboat Point" for almost 10 months. Original Blue paper covers. Covers tatty but contents clean. This is part of the work they carried out whilst on the expedition Two Men in The Antarctic. This is the first USA edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Birds; 1920s; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3285. . This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.</p> Macmillan Company hardcover
191464007Tokyo Japan: Seikyosha 1914 Taisho 3. 8vo. 2 5 1 1 1 18 498 2 pp. With decorated title page preserving original tissue guard 46 plates 1 large folding colour birds-eye panorama of New York reproductions of 3 historic views of New York 2 photogravures numerous text illustration cartoon woodcut engravings. Illustrated blue publisher’s cloth gilt decorated & lettered spine title in English on front cover illustrated endpapers t.e.g. minor age toning & spotting to endpapers slight shelfwear w/ original open-backed slipcase illustrated on front cover w/ image of the Statue of Liberty title on spine minor age toning scuffing still a VG/VG- copy w/ former ownership marking on rear endpapers. First edition this caustic and often satirical memoir of Harada’s 1880-1940 extended stay in New York City in the Progressive Era in which he throws off waspish comments about Coney Island as a garish money trap filled with gaudy boorish amusements such as the rolling ball game inside the Japanese Tea Garden concession although mildly impressed with the electric lighting; rails against the traffic the smells capitalism itself and notably derides American women. Karen Kelsky states that “Harada’s memoirs treat women as the objects of a kind of sexual rage.†She also incorporates a translated passage from Harad who writes “because their society has indiscriminately raised them up too high all American women are arrogant and full of themselves. . . The greatest faults of New York’s women are their rudeness fugyogi and their bad manners busaho. A woman came to New York who said she had previously acted as tutor to the British Royal family but I was so disgusted with her display of these faults that walking down the street with her I lost my patience again and again and wanted to grab her and give her a piece of my mind.†He also slights suffragettes women interested in fashion including cartoon on p. 219 in English with comment that “Women are awful slaves of fashion! they merrily follow the style whether its comfortable becoming or adapted to our climate and customs.†He also includes comments on fallen women crime rates augmented with a series of cartoons of burglars breaking into apartments and subsequently fencing the stolen goods. Nonetheless as evidenced by the many photos and illustrations included he also filled his time with sightseeing to Central Park Federal Hall Grand Central Station Riverside Park Grant’s Tomb the Flatiron Building Statue of Liberty views of the teaming streets filled with automobiles trolleys and ferries in the Hudson. One particular photo also depicts the tenements in the Lower East Side. Harada a Japanese journalist also published later additional works such as “American Obscurantism 1916†on American art; “The Way of the Newspaper 1927;“ and Essays on the History of American Newspapers 1934.†Worldcat locates 5 copies Bancroft Harvard Toshokan Ryutsu Ctr National Diet Waseda Univ.; See: Karen Keslky Women on the Verge: Japanese Women Western Dreams 2001 p. 53; Mitziko Sawada Tokyo Life New York Dreams: Urban Japanese visions of America 1890-1924 1996. Seikyosha, hardcover
190211414London: Adam and Charles Black. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1902. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Decorated cloth cover. One of 500 copies signed by the publisher. This copy is inscribed on the fep by the author: "Mr & Mrs Milne with very cordial regards from John Kelman" dated April 1912.; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Adam and Charles Black hardcover
1959016941Beijing 1959 Book with dust jacket visible plastic in good conditions. The dustjacket has same traces of use tears / missing small pieces. Illustrated book of the 10th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. 544 pages. Page large photograghs illustrations in black and white and colour. The pictures show the life in China people art seasons industry history towns & villages nature army. Text in Chinese. Zhongguo hua ce bianji weiyuanhui Beijing 1959. Reading ribbon on the front cover there is in relfief "the National Emblem of the People's Republic of China". Table of contents. Included is a stapled booklet 8 pages in German text this is the German translation of the table of contents. "CHINA ein Bildband. Bildunterschriften. Zusammengestelt von der Kommission zur Herausgabe des Bildbandes CHINA. Peking 1959". Size: 39 x 32.5 x 5.5 centimeter. Weight: 6.6 kilogram. Price is including registered - insured - shipping. 1ste / 1st. cloth / linnen hardcover. good / goed/good / goed. A3 formaat gebonden. hardcover
1917214418London and New York.: The Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Co. 1917. Numerous black and white photographic illustrations. 768pp. Full red morocco binding spine lettered and ruled in gilt in compartments 'Tiger head' emblematical device stamped in gilt on the upper board repeated in gilt on the title page corner ornaments blocked in gilt. All edges gilt marbled endpapers light rubbing to corners but a lavishly produced edition in exceptional condition. 30 x 23.5cm One of a series of publications published with the object of supplying the British public with a picture - complete as far as literary and pictorial effort could make it - of the several different parts of the Empire. in this instance Northern India. . The Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Co. unknown
19332159Macmillan 1933. Roy. 8vo. First Edition with coloured frontispiece 16 fine coloured plates on 15 all captioned guards present 123 monochrome plates on 78 8 large folding monochrome panoramas and large folding coloured map some very light occasional marginal spotting as often; original sienna cloth gilt back upper cover blocked in gilt gilt top uncut one or two leaves unopened joints a trifle rubbed else a very good bright crisp copy. VERY SCARCE. Macmillan, hardcover
1921240712-MB07Harper and Brothers 1921. Very Good Hardcover with scarce dustjacket with minor chipping Pictorial cover Color and black and white plates and numerous drawings compiled from Harper's Magazine and Merle Johnson K-E on copyright page. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Oversize. Harper and Brothers Hardcover
192059816Los Angeles CA: MacDonald Collection ca. 1920-1955. Archive of 89 coated labels sized from 2.25 x 3.5 in. up to 6.25 x 8.5 in. with many in the middle ranges including distinctive 5.25 in. rounds most colour lithographs some with metallic inks nearly all retaining the original adhesive from never having been applied to luggage in assorted shapes many round others rectangular square diamond shaped etc. most on thin coated paper stock all NF condition from the library of Archibald Angus MacDonald 1892-1977 stepson of famed southern California oil man William F. Byrne as well as oil company and drilling equipment company owner and manager of MacDonald & Burns Oil Producers. A delightful and remarkably colourful small archive of fine lithographed and colour printed luggage labels preserved from over three decades of ocean liner travel by the well-to-do California oil family. Their frequent voyages carried them to Hawaii Asia South Asia Africa Europe and the Americas preserving luggage labels souvenir brochures and more along the way. At the time they were an essential advertising campaign largely driven by the popular Grand Hotels and were often illustrated by such renowned commercial and graphic artists as Dan Sweeney and Mario Borgoni. Included amongst these are iconic labels for the historic Park Hotel depicting jockeys racing on the Shanghai Club race track in front of the iconic Art Deco building completed in 1934; The Cathay & The Metropole in Shanghai operated by Cathay Hotels Ltd.; the historic Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon Hong Kong opened in 1928 and founded by the brothers Ellis & Elly Kadoorie still considered one of the finest hotels east of the Suez; or beautiful scenic labels created for the Eastern & Oriental Hotel the “E&O†still considered one of the finest hotels in Southeast Asia and the Oriental Hotel in Kobe Japan. Also present are labels for the Raffles Hotel in Singapore originally opened in 1887 Mrs. Ch’ien’s Guest House located originally not far from the Legation Quarter in Peking Maidens Hotel Delhi the splendid Clark’s Hotel Benares Varanasi still considered the finest heritage hotel in the city and the Imperial Hotel of New Delhi opened in 1936 designed by F.B. Blomfield. The MacDonald’s visited the Philippines several times often staying the Manila Hotel Hawaii where the Royal Hawaiian and the Kiluaea Volcano House were their places of choice and frequently stated at The Biltmore in Los Angeles after returning from trips the Plaza in Buenos Aires the Waldorf in New York and many of the major European Hotels. Also present are labels for the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo Sri Lanka founded in 1865 featuring the historic south wing designed by Edward Skinner and one of the oldest hotels East of Suez. South Africa was a stopover during their 1952 Great Africa-India Cruise on the RMS Caronia and labels include Polley’s Hotel Pretoria the Imperial Hotel in Pietermaritzburg and the North Western Hotel Livingstone N. Rhodesia. MacDonald Collection, unknown
19254849Various locations in the American Southwest West Coast and Pacific Northwest 1925. Very good. 30 leaves illustrated with 270 photographs of various sizes including two multi-panel panoramic photographs each leaf with a single printed caption identifying the subjects or location. Contemporary red leather gilt titles on front cover. Oblong folio. Some scuffing and abrading to covers a few short edge tears. Internally clean. A handsome annotated photograph album produced to commemorate a railroad trip by a well-to-do party of travelers from Kansas City through New Mexico Arizona Colorado California and up the West Coast to British Columbia and Alberta in 1925. The first photograph in the album is a panorama of a large group of well-dressed men and women at the Mission Hills Country Club in Kansas City captioned in the negative indicating the traveling party emanated from Kansas City as part of the "N.E.L.A. Red Special Delegation to San Francisco Convention" who were "Guests of K.C.P and L Co" presumably the Kansas City Power & Light Company. The second and much larger panoramic photograph is comprised of fifteen 5-x-8-inch photographs picturing the travelers posed outside the numerous Pullman cars that comprise the Red Special. The preponderance of the photographs are organized by location generally five or six photographs per page with a single printed caption per page mostly indicating the location. The body of photographs begins with facing pages of images featuring the travelers and some scenery in Colorado Springs and Garden of the Gods in Colorado. A sampling of subsequent groups of photographs feature the travelers at Pike's Peak Albuquerque the Grand Canyon San Bernardino Redlands Los Angeles Santa Barbara Del Monte Yosemite Valley Glacier Point Mariposa Grove San Francisco Shasta the Columbia River Victoria Vancouver Canadian Rockies Lake Louise Lake Agnes Moraine Lake Johnson's Canyon Banff and other locations. The album closes with four pages of photos picturing "Fellow Travelers Here and There" and a group photo of "The Train Crew." The latter photograph is the only one featuring African Americans who were likely working as Pullman porters on the Red Special. A wide-ranging series of photographs featuring much of the American and Canadian West before the Great Depression. unknown
1911794<p>Hodder & Stoughton London 1911. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st English Edition; Association Copy - Rudmose-Brown. English Version translated by Philip Walsh. viii 315 pages folding photographic frontispiece plus 47 photographs 3 sketches and 1 map. Original blue-grey cloth binding embossed with gilt illustration of a ship and titling on front cover white a penguin and gilt titling to spine. "Ex Libri Rudmose Brown" stamp of verso front cover and signed R N Rudmose Brown may 28th 1912 on Front end paper. Spine faded endpapers browned Bubbling and bowing to covers. Contents clean. Exploration & mapping of 3000km of the Antarctic Peninsula Graham Land by a French expedition. Charcot continued exploring and recording data in the polar water until his death in 1936 in a storm-induced shipwreck on the coast of Iceland. Provenance: Library stamp of R.N.Rudmose-Brown with his signature dated May 28 1912 on front end paper. Rudmose Brown was a botanist and polar explorer who was on The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition 1902 - 1904. This is the first English edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; 1900-1920; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 794. .</p> Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
19034018Washington D.C Washington 1903. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Signed by persons connected with book. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY: Full Title: ALASKAN BOUNDARY TRIBUNAL Atlas Accompanying the Case of the United States Before the Tribunal Convened at London Under the Provisions of the Treaty between the United States of America and Great Britain Concluded January 24 1903. 1st Edition 1st printing. Very large folio 46cm. Original covers titled in gilt on front plain end papers; 6pagesList of maps and biographical notes of Cartographers; 25 maps some in color. Minor shelf wear. Presentation copy to Henry S Wellcome with the compliments of John W Forster. U.S. Secretary of State Government. Reproductions of maps used in 1903 border disputes with Britain showing the American claim to the land; effectively a cartographic history of Alaska. When the U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia in 1821 it inherited a dispute over the territory's border with British Columbia. The Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98 exacerbated tensions until the 1903 Hay-Herbert Treaty under which the nations entered arbitration to resolve the dispute. The arbitration's conclusion favored the United States sparking Canadian frustration that Britain had not better defended its interests. This atlas presents official facsimiles of the maps presented by the U.S. in the arbitration process. 21 are facsimiles of historical maps from Russian French German British Canadian and American atlases dating between 1798 and 1863; many are depicted with facsimiles of title pages from the source atlases. The remaining four maps were produced in 1903 by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey including one depicting the locations of Native American villages along the border. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Politics & Government. Signed by persons connected with book. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4018. . This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Washington D.C hardcover
1936BIB330674London: William Heinemann. 1936. Large octavo size 16x24cm approx. Good condition. No dustjacket. Pale yellow boards are a marked with some tiny stains to spine. Some scattered foxing to fore edge and to the edges of some preliminary pages. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Maps to endpapers. Uncommon. 296 pages. Greene's account of his four week trip through Liberia in 1935. This was Greene's first trip outside Europe. . Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. William Heinemann hardcover
1923839<p>Cassell and Co Ltd London 1923. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. SHACKLETON'S LAST VOYAGE: THE STORY OF THE QUEST From the Official Journal and Private Diary Kept By Dr. A.H.Macklin: 1st Edition; xvi 372pp 51 plate leaves including coloured photographic frontipiece 138 photographs and 3 sketches in all 12 sketch maps in text. Original light blue cloth spine lettered and ruled in gilt cover lettered and ruled in black and gilt with a white black and gold vignette of the Quest in ice. No dustjacket Ink signature of A B Watkins July 1923 on rear of front board small booksellers label rear ep. Covers marked bumped and faded top and bottom of spine softened slight foxing to some pages all as expected for age of book. Overall Very Good. Together with "QUEST" EXPEDITION REPORT1st Edition; vi 6161pp illustrated 2 plate leaves frontipiece plus 26 figures and maps in text. With a preface by C.Tate Regan Director of the Natural History Section of the British Museum. Burgundy cloth cover spine lettered and ruled in gilt gilt vignette on front cover. Very Good. PLEASE NOTE: This book will incur extra postage and insurance charges. Please contact us for a quote. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; 1920s; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 839. . This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.</p> Cassell and Co Ltd hardcover
1976468648London: Times Newspapers Limited/Royal Geographic Society 1976. No dust jacket. Hardcover in blue card slipcase. Facsimile. Large heavy book. Number 47 of a commemorative edition of 200 copies printed on the occasion of the American Bicentennial. Book is hand-numbered on first page of text. Item comprises numerous maps most of which are fold-out. Minor wear on slipcase. Bound in goatskin on spine and leading corners. Hand-marbled boards. Gilt lettering within a circular leather onlay on front board. A few light scores on onlay. Slight wear on spine ends. Slight wear on lower leading corner of front board. Minor bumping on endpapers. Pages are hand-numbered. Contents are clean and clear throughout. AF. hardcover. Very Good. Used. Times Newspapers Limited/Royal Geographic Society Hardcover
19091073William Heinemann London 1909. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition 2 Volumes; Vol I xlviii 372 pages illustrated 112 pages of plates 6 in colour plus 111 diagrams in text; Vol II xvi errata slip 419 pages 102 pages of plates 6 in colour 38 diagrams in text; 1 folding page depicting 2 panoramas 3 folding maps in rear pocket. Original covers lettered in silver with vignettes. All maps illustrations as called for. Shelf wear minor sunning to spines very minor spotting small neat previous booksellers stamp to front end paper both volumes contents clean a lovely copy. Shackleton first gained fame as a member of Scotts 1901 expedition then in August 1907 he left London as commander of his own expedition popularly known as the "Nimrod" Expedition and renowned "for having reached within 97 miles of the South Pole almost four years before Amundsen and Scott achieved the Pole itself This expedition established Shackleton as a bona-fide English hero" having discovered the Polar Plateau and accomplishing the first attainment of the Magnetic South Pole as well as the first ascent of Mt. Erebus fully outdistancing his predecessors to a degree unequalled in the history of polar exploration. Books on Ice 7.4 On Shackletons return to England he was knighted by Edward VII who considered the expedition "the greatest geographical event of his reign" Huntford 298. Shackleton would later recall the expedition as "high adventure strenuous days lonely nights unique experiences and above all records of unflinching determination supreme loyalty and the generous self-sacrifice on the part of my men" South . 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: 1073. . William Heinemann hardcover
1915293<p>William Heinemann London 1915. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st 2 Volume Edition; Vol I xxx 349 pages illustrated. Frontispiece 8 colour plates 108 b/w plates 4 folding 17 text illustrations. Vol II xiii 338 pages. Frontispiece 10 colour plates 93 b/w plates 5 folding 20 text illustrations 3 folding maps in rear pocket. Original decorative covers "Leaning into the Wind" - in silver to front cover. The book is in the same format as Shackleton's Heart of the Antarctic which is advertised on the first half-title verso. Shelf wear some fading to spine and odd page loosening but all complete contents clean and bright all maps as called for and are all in good condition overall a lovely copy. Initially intending to be a member of Scott's party Mawson decided to command his own expedition the first official Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Mawson charted more than 2000 miles of coastline and nearly lost his life in a wild sledge journey. In the process he developed a detailed scientific analysis of George V Land and Macquarie Island and produced this classic account of heroic age exploits which includes stunning photography from the camera of Frank Hurley. Shore parties wintered at Cape Denison and on the Shackleton Ice Shelf. The former base was unfortunately located in an area of constant gale-force winds hence the title. In December 1912 a sledge party reached the South Magnetic Pole located by Eric Webb. Meanwhile another party consisting of Mawson Ninnis and Mertz explored eastwards across George V Land. Only Mawson returned to base Ninnis having fallen down a crevasse. With him went the 6 fittest dogs & the most indispensable supplies. Mertz & Mawson improvised feeding the dogs worn out mitts raw-hide straps but eventually the weakest dogs were killed to feed them all until all the dogs were gone. The two men reserved the dog's livers as the meat easiest to chew unaware that liver's toxins were slowly poisoning the men as they consumed it. Mertz became delirious and died. Mawson continued the soles of his feet separating and his toes and fingers festering. Miraculously he found a depot of food and arrived eventually at the main depot to see the ship departing on the horizon. He wintered over with the 6 men who had remained to continue the search. On Dec. 24 1913 their 2 year journey was finally over. The expedition would discover 1320 miles of land including the Mertz Denman and Scott Glaciers and the Davis Sea and map 800 miles of coastline between Gaussberg and Cape Adare all along the Adelie Land coast and beyond. Taurus 100; Rosove 217.A1; Spence 774; Conrad p208. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 293. . This is a SET of books therefore heavier than a standard volume and will involve extra shipping charges to some countries.</p> William Heinemann hardcover
1957619633London: Lutterworth Press 1957. First edition hardcover signed and dedicated by David Attenborough in very good condition. Clipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is sunned at the spine. Edges are creased and nicked including small tears and chips. Board corners and spine ends are bumped. Spine is cocked. Page block and endpapers are lightly foxed. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Signed and Dedicated By Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Used. Lutterworth Press Hardcover
1901253<p>Newnes London 1901. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; xvi 333 pages 3 folding maps 32 publishers adverts photogravure frontispiece 18 full-page plates 183 mostly photographic text illustrations original blue decorative cloth covers with ship vignette to front cover in gilt and silver gilt explorer with staff on skis on spine. Top page edges gilt. Possible evidence of neat library stamp removal to spine. Previous ownership inscription in pencil on half title. Discreet Library stamp Botany Division Christchurch NZ to 1st page chapter 1 but no other library markings. The account of the first expedition to make winter camp on the Antarctic mainland and the first to use dog teams. Spine slightly worn and faded corners bumped some slight foxing mainly to prelims frontispiece and tissue paper guard. A very nice copy. The expedition sponsored by Sir George Newnes and led by Borchgrevink in the Ship "Southern Cross" was the first to establish a base on the main body of the continent and the first scientific party to winter over. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; 19th century; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 253. . This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.</p> Newnes hardcover
