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199823860Adelaide: The Friends of the State Library of South Australia. Fine. 1998. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. 1876154195 . Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 217. With introduction by Valmai Hankel. With 8 illustrations and 4 maps this is an unread as new copy. Limited to 600 copies of which 99 are numbered deluxe issue this is an unnumbered cloth bound edition. ; 225 x 145mm; xiiviii 354 pages . The Friends of the State Library of South Australia hardcover
19345134London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. Very Good. 1934. Reprint. Hard Cover. With 64 plates map quarter leather spine dec in gilt blue cloth sides with school Geelong Grammar gilt crest to front top edge gilt marbled endpapers prize plate to front endpaper internally clean & tight. A very good copy. ; 215 x 140mm; xvi 366 pages . Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co. hardcover
1993Q-0912365935Sasquatch Books 1993-08-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Sasquatch Books paperback
1885014624Toronto: C. Blackett Robinson 1885. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Beveled boards in original green cloth pictorially stamped in gilt still bright on spine and front cover. Spine rounded. Foot of spine shows light fraying; corner tips pushed and have a little exposure. Inner hinges cracked but holding firm. Half-title leaf is worn and lightly chipped along fore-edge. Two fold-out maps each showing some tears tape and tissue repairs on backside. More than sixty in-text illustrations. pp. xvi 17- 589. Explorations and description of Canada extending to the Arctic Circle primarily told through the experiences of the Canadian Government Expedition to Hudson's Bay and Strait; Otto Klotz's overland Expedition to Hudson's Bay; Dr. Robert Bell's Hudson's Bay Explorations; the Travels and Explorations in the North-West of Dr. Alfred R. C. Selwyn Marcus Smith and many others; and of the Travels and Explorations of the author Charles R. Tuttle particularly the 1884 Expedition of Lieutenant Andrew Robinson Gordon. Includes descriptions of the native peoples encountered wildlife climate and geography. C. Blackett Robinson hardcover
1929065405New York: Coward-McCann 1929. Full blue cloth binding. Clean and unmarked. Map endpapers. Pale foxing to prelims and title page. 329pp. Lacking dj. -- Author was an American journalist and activist best known for her reporting on and support for communist movements in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. She wrote over 30 books and varied articles. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Coward-McCann Hardcover
192379983London: Cassell and Company Ltd. 1923. Pages clean and bright with occasional light spotting foxing on endpapers cracked gutter between photo plate and page 183 but no detachment light sunning to spine and some shelf wear to boards binding firm. First Edition. Hard. Very Good. 8vo. Cassell and Company Ltd. Hardcover
#[36261]Haarlem H.D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon 1865- 1915. In issues. With many photographic illustrations. Sir John Franklin en de Noordpoolreizen. 1865. - Schipbreuken in de Noordpoolzee. Lotgevallen van Barends en Von Krusenstern. 1866. - Reis naar de Noordpoolstreken. 1869. - Noordpool-reis van de Germania en de Hansa. 1875. - Nansen en zijn Poolreis door F.J. van Uildriks. 1897. - De Polaris. Zes maanden op het ijs. 1878. - De Zweedsche Pool-expeditie onder leiding van A.E. Nordenskiöld. 1878. - Vijftien maanden in de Zuidpoolstreken. Naar het Fransch van Adrien de Gerlache. 1902. - De moordende Pool. Het reisverhaal van kapitein Scott. 1914. - and 4 others. unknown
197625818St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. First thus. Hardcover. 0702213101 . Translated from the Norwegian by A. G. Chater. 2 volumes in one With illustrations and maps a very good copy in very good dustjacket. ; 220 x 140mm; xxxv 392 x 449 pages . University of Queensland Press hardcover
1972002879Hong Kong: Self-published 1972. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION 1972. Original staple-bound textured gray wrappers black lettering front black image of mountain on front. Minor bump lower outside front corner tip otherwise like new with clean covers no previous owner marks or writing on any pages no foxing never used acquired new directly in-person from Jack Baines in the early 1980s during a UK book-scouting trip. The book measures 258mm tall x 187mm and has 28 pages 43 b/w photos 2 maps. Account of the third ascent of Carstenz Pyramid by a new direct route up the N. Face first ascent of N. Face of Sunday Peak ascent of Ngga Poloe ascent of Middenspitze scramble up Pk 14100 ft ascent of the 5 summits along the ridge south of Ngga Poloe. Very uncommon. PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED. <br/> <br/> Self-published hardcover
1991CA0239654 pages with plates reproductions illustrations maps bibliographies and indexes. Quarto 12" x 8 1/2" bound in pictorial stiff boards. Translated by Luciano F Farina and Carla Onorato Wysokinski. Edited by Gianni Eugenio Viola. Volume XI of National Commission for the Celebration of the quincentennial of the Discovery of America. First edition.Contents:In Search of an Image by Gaetano Ferro; Landscapes Plants and Animals by Gaetano Ferro; Peoples and Cultures of the New World by Luisa Faldini; Sixteenth Century Cartography and the Origin of the Columbian Tradition by Marcia Milanesi; In Search of an Image: Illustrations by Carla Pampaloni; Other Landscapes Other Plants Other Animals: Text and Illustrations by Carla Pampaloni; People and Cultures of the New World: Illustrations by Luisa Faldini and Laura Monferdini; New World Images from Cartographic Sources: Illustrations by Maria Teresa de Palma.Condition:Light edge wear else a near fine copy. Instituto Poligrafico e Zecca Dello Stato Liberia Dello Stato hardcover
19381262London: Jonathan Cape. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Front hinge weakening ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 415 pages . Jonathan Cape hardcover
188632946London : John Murray 1886 . First Edition . Fair . 8VO . Illustrated with attractive wood engravings many full page. Each volume has a striking ornithological hand-coloured engraved frontis. There are a number of maps mostly two colour some folding in each volume. Bound in half calf marble boards. All covers are detached as well as the spine on volume 2 ; the spine on volume 1 is half detached. The text blocks are in very good condition although the colour frontispieces are foxed. All plates and maps are present. John Murray hardcover
186915392Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Original maroon cloth covered boards with light wear to extremities bottom fore corners a little bumped spine a little faded head and tail of spine a little frayed.; Tight solid book maroon end papers hinges intact frontispiece with intact tissue guard & two other engravings in section on Mormon church. Titles in gilt on spine.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 456 pages; ``Alexander Kelly McClure January 9 1828 – June 6 1909 was a journalist editor writer politician and historian active in Pennsylvania Republican Party politics especially in the 1860s and a prominent supporter correspondent and biographer of President Abraham Lincoln.`` This book is written as two series of letters to the public one series published in the New York `Tribune` and the other in the `Franklin Repository`. Colonel J.X. Beidler Judge L.P. Williston Colonel Geo. L. Shoup Colonel Neil Howie and Colonel Wilbur L. Sanders whose faces appear on the frontispiece are encountered by McClure on his travels. Extensive section on Utah and the Mormon church. . J.B. Lippincott & Co hardcover
18979761Kristiania H. Aschehoug & co 1897. Frst Norwegian Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Royal 8vo. 526 553 3/4 cloth & marbled boards 2 v. fronts. illus. plates part col. ports. 3 color folding maps folding diagram > Rids af Fram. "Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen 10 October 1861 - 13 May 1930 was a Norwegian explorer scientist diplomat humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In his youth he was a champion skier and ice skater. He led the team that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888 traversing the island on cross-country skis. He won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86°14 during his Fram expedition of 1893-1896. Although he retired from exploration after his return to Norway his techniques of polar travel and his innovations in equipment and clothing influenced a generation of subsequent Arctic and Antarctic expeditions."wikipedia. Kristiania, H. Aschehoug & co hardcover
191433465Victoria : King's Printer 1914 . First Edition . Good . 8VO . Newcombe 1851-1924 physician natural historian and artifact collector was an important figure in the rush to collect Northwest Coast art and objects most of which were collected for foreign institutions although he collected for the Provincial Museum later in in his career and ulitmately his enormous personal collection was sold to the British Columbia Government and is now housed in the RBCM and the Provincial Archives. The memoir was written to vindicate the contention of Vancouver that his ships were the first to complete the navigation of the inner channels which separate Vancouver Island from the mainland. With 8 guarded maps including one fold-out and errata sheet. This is a non-circulating ex-library copy with a stamp on the title page library accession numbers on the first page of the covering letter and stamp and catalogue numbers on the last page. Rebound in stiff blue card library boards without the original covers which were identical to the title page. Strathern 399. King's Printer hardcover
19262222001<p>First edition "October 1926". Octavo. Four page foreword by Bob Bartlett. Illustrated with 47 photographs and drawings by the Eskimo Kakutia; endpaper maps. Dust jacket unclipped; few nicks and creases. Very good. 167 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed on verso of frontispiece by the publisher and father of the author: "From one who is merely. David's Dad! G. P. Putnam."</p> G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
182146092London W.Bulmer and W. Nicol 1821. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1821 - Part I. Pp. 164-190 a. 5 folded tables. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of the paper in which Sabine relates his discoveries with the pendulum on his 2 voyages the first on John Ross' expedition in 1818 - relating observations from Island of Brassa Shetland Hare Island London - and from the second voyage with William Parry on the arctic expedition - relating observations from Melville Island. From these observations he estimated the figure of the earth."An artillery officer Sabine was a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Woolwich. While retaining his commission - Sabine eventually reached the rank of general - the started scientific work at the close of the Napoleonic Wars. On the recommendation of the Royal Society he accompanied John Ross on an expedition to seek the Northwest Passage in 1818 and was with William Edward Parry on his 1819-1820 Arctic expedition. From the latter voyage. he said came the idea of a great ship-borne expedition of “physical discovery†to the southern hemisphere."DSB. </em> unknown
1995w210630276Sheffield Academic Press 1995. 370pp. Over sized black hardback with DJ VG index bibliography maps and figures footnotes The Absolute Chronology of the Aegean Early Bronze Age : Archaeology Radiocarbon and History . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Sheffield Academic Press Hardcover
4882New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 1934-1936. First edition. Light edge wear to wrappers on the spine many pages un-opened; a tight and clean copy in near fine condition. Pp. iv 483; 8 full page folding plates 1 folding maps 200 text-figures line-drawings. Original printed green wrappers lg 4to 12 x 9.5 inches. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences volume VIII-X. This work presents the entire results of the Yale North India Expedition as published by the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. The five volumes contain 24 articles on the geological history Paleolithic stone tools invertebrate and vertebrate fossils and the extant invertebrate and vertebrate faunas collected by the Yale North India Expedition of the 1930s. There are two articles in volume VIII: Hawkes et al. - Palaeolithic human industries in the Northwest Punjab and Kashmir and their geological significance; and De Terra - Geological Studies in the Northwest Himalaya between Kashmir and the Indus valley. Volume IX contains four articles: Wodehouse - The Pleistocene pollen of Kashmir; Branson - A Labrinthodont from the Lower Gondwana of Kashmir; Weller - Permain Trilobites from the Central Himalayas; and Vokes - Unionidae of the Siwaliks Series. Volume X contains 18 articles on the Diptera: Ephydridae; Triclad Turbellaria; Coleoptera: Staphylinidae; Carabidae; Phyllopod Crustacea; Gammarus; Hydracarina; terrestrial Hemiptera-Heteroptera; Rotatoria; Land Isopod; Hirudinea; Myriapods; Diplura; Thysanura; Collembola; Cladocera; and Fishes: Cobitidae Sisoridae and Cyprinidae. Single circular stamp of Staten Island Institute in the lower outer corner of the front wrapper of each volume; no other ownership marks and very few signs of use. New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1934-1936. First edition. unknown
200323857Adelaide: The Friends of the State Library of South Australia. Fine. 2003. First thus. Hardcover. 1876154381 . Limited to 400 copies with 99 copies bound in leather and the remaining 301 copies bound in cloth this is a cloth bound copy. An as new copy. Foreword by John Ling and an introduction by Anthony J. Brown. With illustrations / plates foldout chart and a map in pocket at the rear of book. The first published translation into English from the French by Christine Cornell of chapters XXII to XXXIV of Peron's journey as part of the Baudin expedition as zoologist aboard the Geographe. ; 245 x 160mm; xxxviii 278 pages . The Friends of the State Library of South Australia hardcover
MA08C-03698Ministry of Education. Collectible - Good. Tokyo: Ministry of Education 1968. 4to. 10368013pp. English French Russian and Spanish. Illus. Good book. Boards considerably bumped along edges. Hinges cracked. Antarctica expeditions logistics supplies transportation Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. Ministry of Education hardcover
1888308<p>London: Hodder and Stoughton 1888. Hard Cover. -- 1st Edition seventh thousand. </p><p>Bound in the publisher's red cloth with coated black endpapers bright gilt lettering to the spine and an insect gilt-stamped on the front board. Illustrated with six folding maps all in color and in excellent condition as well as with several engravings. The cloth is minimally soiled the corners are slightly bumped; hinges are still strong; text is clean throughout. </p> Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
1857000151London: J.B. Nichols and Sons 1857. Hardcover. See Description. Tall 4to. pp. viii 2 508. Volume XXVII. 12 plates including several in color and 2 folding maps one map is folded in six sections and backed with thin gauze or mull. B&W illustrations with the text. Pages are generally clean with a couple small marginal tears. Light brown cloth; re-backed preserving part of the original spine minus 25mm at the tail and 15mm at the top. Inner hinges neatly strengthened. Some rubbing and wear; corners bumped. Contents include: An accound of the discovery of Anglo-Saxon remains at Kemble in North Wilts; On choirs and chancels particularly as to their use in the South of Europe; Remarks on some early churches in France and Switzerland partly in the time of Charlemagne; The City of Cumae and the recent excavations there; An account of the investigation of some remarkable circular trenches and the discovery of an ancient British cemetery at Stanlake Oxon.; The Burning and burial of the dead.and many other articles. <br/> <br/> J.B. Nichols and Sons hardcover
193728406Toronto : Champlain Society / University of Toronto Press 1937 . Limited Edition . VG . 8VO . Limited to 550 sets of which this is #29. Campbell's journeys focused on possible immigration opportunities for Highland Scots and provide the earliest and best description of New Brunswick of the time. Bound in gilt-stamped red cloth TEG. Champlain Society Publication XXIII. Uncommon. A very lightly worn non-circulating ex-library copy with label on front endpaper library stamps at the bottom of several pages white accession numbers on spine. Champlain Society / University of Toronto Press hardcover
1911021515Los Angeles: University of California 1911. FIRST EDITION first printing. Early 20th century full blue buckram hardcover with gilt lettering on the spine. Embossed name on the National Audubon Society on the title page. Archive tape restoration to the title page. No previous owner's names. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. First Edition. Full Buckram. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. University of California Hardcover
