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199723887Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia. Fine. 1997. First thus. Hardcover. 1876154101 . Sent by the colonists of South Australia with the sanction and support of the government; including an account of the manners and customs of the aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans. In two volumes. Edition limited to 600 copies of which the first 99 are numbered and bound in quarter leather this being an unnumbered set bound in cloth. An as new set. ; Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 213; 225 x 145mm . Friends of the State Library of South Australia hardcover
1930145029London: British Museum 1930. vi6161 pp. Octavo. Original wine coloured gilt cloth. Gilt title on spine. 3 plates including frontispiece and illustrations in text from sketch maps plans etc. A very nice copy Rosove 313.A1 Taurus 113 Shackleton died on the "Quest" expedition after having reached South Georgia. Even with the tragedy the Expedition pushed on and the present work gathers thirteen papers concerning the the expedition geological work. Nice non x-lib copies are much harder to find. 1930 British Museum hardcover
18801309New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. Some fraying to top and bottom spine. Front hinge weakening. Some fraying to rear map margin not effecting printed area. Previous owner's name to front pastedown; Rare. Numerous b&w illustrations and two maps; 8vo; 448 pages . Henry Holt and Company hardcover
185970480Harper 1859. Hardcover. Fair. 5 x 7 inches. 340 pp. Illustrated. Folded map at rear. Ex-library book rebound in older buckram cloth spine label stickers on rear cover. Few normal reference non-circulating library markings else interior good text block secure. Title page little soiled scattered light margin foxing. Map has few stains one inch tear to left margin. Ships in box. Professional bookseller for 20 years. Orders shipped daily in cardboard bookfolds. Harper hardcover
1818BOOKS0073902 volumes: xxiii557 pages with fold out frontispiece map and two additional maps one folding; vii550 pages with folding frontispiece map tables three maps and appendix. Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 3/4" recased with original leather boards and original spine laid on. Second edition corrected and enlarged. First published in 1817.<br /><br />Hugh Murray was a geographer. Hugh entered the Edinburgh excise office as a clerk but from the first devoted his leisure to literary pursuits publishing <i>The Swiss Emigrants</i> in 1804; two philosophical treatises <i>The Morality of Fiction</i> 1805 and <i>Enquiries respecting the Character of Nations</i> 1808; and another romance <i>Corasmin or the Minister</i> in 1814. In 1816 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh to whose <i>Transactions</i> he contributed among other papers one in 1818 <i>On the Ancient Geography of Central and Eastern Asia with Illustrations derived from Recent Discoveries in the North of India</i>. In 1817 he enlarged and completed Dr. Leyden's <i>Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa</i>. Similar works by him on Asia and North America followed; the former being published in three volumes at Edinburgh in 1820 and the latter in London in 1829.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Recased with original leather spines and covers laid on and new end papers frontispiece map of volume one need of repair at some folds else a good to very good set. Archibald Constable & Company hardcover
19758125Ardmore Pennsylvania: Whitmore Publishing Company 1975. First Edition. Hardcover Paper Over Boards. Very Good Condition/Good. Whitmore Publishing Company Ardmore Pennsylvania 1975. First Edition. Very Good Condition/Good. Autobiography Light shelf-wear to the outer extremities of the book and the dust jacket. b-n. The book covers the first few months of the authors thirteen-year residence in Venezuela and her travels from one end of the country to the other. The author led an expedition into an unknown part of the "lost world" jungles in the Brazillian-Venezuelan highlands--after four groups of men had made expeditions into that area and had disappeared or retreated--to reach and measure the highest waterfalls in the world Angel Falls or Churun Meru. Size: Octavo standard book size. 345 pages. Item Type: Autobiography. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Exploration; Venezuela; 1970s; Women & Feminism. ISBN: 0874260396. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 008125. Whitmore Publishing Company hardcover
19842111902154609101Meeting to bear the Shirase Antarctic Expedition 1984. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Meeting to bear the Shirase Antarctic Expedition paperback
19432090502124700698Mokuro Bookstore 1943. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Mokuro Bookstore paperback
115685London British Museum 1915. . First edition; 4to; 21 photographic plates; publisher's original paper wrapper; a fine copy; pp. 55-84 xxi.<br /> The first monograph on the Adelie penguin by zoologist G. Murray Levick a member of Robert Falcon Scott's 'Terra Nova' expedition.<br /> Rosove 292-14. London, British Museum, 1915. unknown
1970004083Munich: The Expedition 1970 Original pictorial postcard with Pakistan Stamps 50 paisa postmarked Gilgit 9 May 1970 with expedition cachet; Signed by 16 team members including leader Karl Herrligkoffer summiteers Reinhold Messner Felix Kuen and Peter Scholz as well as Michl Anderl Gerhard Baur Wolf-Dietrich Bitterling Werner Haim Gunther Kroh Hermann Kuhn Gerd Mandl Elmer Raab Hans Saler Peter Vogler Jurgen Winkler Alice Von Hobe Max von Kienlin and a sherpa thumbprint. A near fine copy. The success of the German 1970 Rupal Face expedition to Nanga Parbat was marred by the death of Gunther Messner after descending the unknown slopes of the Diamir Face. Signed by the Expedition Team. First Edition. Soft Cover. F-. The Expedition paperback
19820035761982 Original pictorial postcard with Chinese Stamps R25 postmarked 20/4/1982. Signed by Doug Scott Nick Prescott Paul Braithwaite Roger Baxter Jones and Alex McIntyre. A near fine copy. This item can be purchased with a copy of 'The Shishapangma Expedition' by Scott and McIntyre. Signed by the Team Members. Soft Cover. F-. paperback
186914451London & Glascow: William Collins Sons & Company. 1869. Hardcover. With two hundred illustrations after drawings by Gustave Dore Berard Lancelot Jules Noel and other eminent artists and six finely engraved maps full coloured title page reads the same for both volumes. Volume 1 first series - xii 820 pages six finely engraved maps full coloured and four others folding panorama of Jerusalem approx 200 other illustrations some full page Volume 2 second series - xii 810 pages six finely engraved maps full coloured and two others approx 200 other illustrations some full page bound in half leather as a matching 2 Volume set front hinge on Vol. 1 has small split at top new endpapers overall a very good set Heavy books may require extra postage cost. . William Collins, Sons & Company hardcover
190827532London: Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library General Assembly Library New Zealand. Gilt library stamps on spine and front board. Fading to spine. Label on front endpaper "Presented by The Trustees of The British Museum". Overall a very good copy that although ex-library shows little sign of use and does not appear to have been a circulating copy. ; Volume Four only. 2 blank iv 2 preliminary pages 13 1 blank; 5 1 blank; 41 1; 46; 16; 9 1 blank; 26; 6; 12; 56; 50 pages each section paginated individually 59 plate leaves 21 colour and another 9 with a single beige colour background tint. The fourth section is listed in the Contents as having 44 pages but it actually has 46 pages. Original red buckram cloth spine and burgundy cloth boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 303 x 230mm. A volume of zoological reports from the Discovery Expedition 1901-1904 which was led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott 1868-1912. Various contributors. 20 of the colour plates are of sponges Porifera of which 9 of Tetraxonida and 11 are of Calcarea calcareous sponges. 1 colour plate of Myzostomidae marine worm. References: Rosove 288-4.A1 Rosove states 58 instead of 59 plates and 18 plate leaves for the section on Tetraxonida but this should be 19 as there are 19 plates numbered VIII through XXVI in this section. The Contents in the book also list 19 plates in this section.; Renard 1129 . Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum hardcover
1994139514Bundaberg: Corkwood Press 1994. Hardcover. Near fine. Bundaberg Corkwood Press 1994 facsimile edition/ 1896. Quarto four volumes ii xviii 220; ii iv 432; vi 204; and vi 200 pages with numerous illustrations plus 66 pages of plates several folding 13 in colour and a large folding map. Cloth lightly scuffed; a near-fine set. The purpose of this scientific expedition sponsored by mining magnate and philanthropist William Austin Horn and with Charles Winnecke as commander and surveyor was to examine the MacDonnell Ranges on the not unreasonable premise that 'when the rest of the Continent was submerged the elevated portions of the McDonnell sic Range existed as an island and that consequently older forms of life might be found in the more inaccessible parts'. This in fact proved not to be the case but the expedition of some fourteen weeks and 2000 miles by camel was an outstanding success. 'It was not the intention . to explore a new region . But in the pursuit of natural history the expedition split into independent groups and explored undiscovered areas thus filling in more of the blank spaces in this vast region' Feeken Feeken and Spate. 'These volumes constitute one of the most substantial contributions in nineteenth-century Australian exploration but perhaps more importantly the expedition is a landmark in anthropological history because it resulted in Baldwin Spencer meeting Frank Gillen' Mulvaney. Limited to only 500 sets and sold out on publication. 4 items. Corkwood Press hardcover
188615246N. Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons 1886. Book. Very Good . Half-Leather. First Edition. About fine but for rubbing and wear to extremities and prev. owner name in vol. 2. Half leather over pebbled boards. Gilt stamped spine with 5 raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Complete with all illustrations and maps. Internally clean and solid. 428 and 444 pages. Weighs over 3.5 kilos so extra postage will be required. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover
1794BB0447London: printed for T. N. Longman Pater-Noster-Row from 1771 1794. Early Reprint. Stiff Wraps. Fine. 8vo: xxxvi380 numbered columns381-394pp with double-page copper-engraved map as frontispiece; 4216pp. ESTC Citation No. T93564 and T93553. Finely bound to style by Fitterer in stiff beige wraps printed paper spine label. Binding and text block clean bright and unmarked save for offsetting from engraved map. A superlative copy. Fordham Road-Books pp. 27 and 29. Roscoe John Newbery A399/6. Not in Hodson. The tenth edition: with the addition of near ninety pages including considerable improvements in the direct roads many new cross roads and a great number of noblemen’s and gentlemen’s seats. Tenth Edition of the first work 1794; originally published 1771 "With the Addition of near Ninety Pages including considerable Improvements in the direct Roads many new Cross Roads and a great Number of Noblemen’s and Gentlemen’s Seats"; Sixth Edition 1792 improved and corrected of the second work with separate title page. Although Paterson contributed no significant innovations to the compilation of road books relying on the advances of Norden Ogilby and others he "made improvements in style and presentation and added factual detail—so much so that his name was for many years an indicator of reliability in road books and was attached to them long after he had stopped compiling them." ODNB N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. printed for T. N. Longman, Pater-Noster-Row [from 1771] unknown
1860H3779London: W. J. Adams 1860. 114 pages. 12mo. Decorated binding. First edition. A description of various locales in France with an eye to the curative effects of the climate on invalids and patients. Binding is embossed blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front and some gilt decoration on front as well. The book is in very good condition: clean and tight with some minor rubbing to edges of cover and edges of spine. Original bookseller's stamp on front pastedown endpaper. Pages are lightly toned; page 105 has a 1" closed tear in bottom margin. Still an attractive copy in new mylar jacket!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible-Very Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book. W. J. Adams Hardcover
1911biblio31<p>First Edition Paris Ernest Leroux 1911; in-4 XV 254 pp. broché couverture illustrée dos insolé couverture tachée et fatiguée. Numa Broc pp. 92-95. Édition originale illustrée de 34 feuillets de planches et de 4 cartes. Augustin Cottes 1871-1913 officier et explorateur a partagé équitablement ses activités entre les deux pôles de l'Empire colonial français l'Indochine et l'Afrique noire. En 1905-1906 revenu en Afrique après 4 ans passés en Indochine "il prend part aux travaux de délimitation de la frontière entre le Congo français et le Cameroun allemand. Second de la mission Moll il est spécialement chargé du tracé de la frontière sud du territoire allemand. En compagnie du Capitaine Forster qui dirige la délégation allemande Cottes part de Ouesso sur la Sangha et par les vallées du Ngoko de l'Ivindo et du Rio Campo gagne le rivage de l'Atlantique. Au passage de nombreux points astronomiques sont calculés le cours des rivières est précisé sur les cartes les limites théoriques tracées par le Dr Cureau en 1900 sont remplacées par des lits de rivières. Please contact me ramrozzi@yahoo.fr</p><br /> Ernest Leroux paperback
1958120448Carlton: Melbourne University Press 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Carlton Melbourne University Press 1958. Quarto xvi 522 pages with 81 maps and illustrations and 17 plates plus a double-page colour map. Cloth slightly rubbed at the extremities; rear cover very slightly marked; endpapers a little offset; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little foxed sunned flecked chipped and torn. One of four volumes in the series published between 1956 and 1964. Melbourne University Press hardcover
1964120447Carlton: Melbourne University Press 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Carlton Melbourne University Press 1964. Quarto xviii 533 pages with a map and 100 plates plus 5 colour plates. Cloth slightly mottled; endpapers lightly offset; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly foxed marked sunned chipped and torn. The last volume in the series published between 1956 and 1964. Melbourne University Press hardcover
1964109084Carlton: Melbourne University Press 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Carlton Melbourne University Press 1964. Quarto xviii 533 pages with a map and 100 plates plus 5 colour plates. Cloth lightly flecked; top edge a little foxed; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper very lightly chipped and sunned on the spine. The last volume in the series published between 1956 and 1964. Melbourne University Press hardcover
1995146579Bundaberg: Corkwood Press 1995. Hardcover. Near fine. Bundaberg Corkwood Press 1995 deluxe facsimile edition/ 1897. Octavo two volumes iv 86 pages with a frontispiece plus 23 plates many reproduced from original negatives or prints and three of them are here reproduced the correct way round for the first time plus a folding chart 2 folding maps and a very large folding map 1210 × 1210 mm loosely housed in a matching portfolio. Half calf and marbled papered boards; spines lightly sunned; a near-fine set. Number 15 of only 30 sets of the deluxe issue from a total edition of 300 out of print soon after publication. Winnecke was the leader of the expedition and in 'the natural order of things these journals and maps should have been published in connection with the scientific and other records of the Horn Expedition as both supplementary and complementary to them'; after a financial disagreement with W.A. Horn the organiser and backer of the venture this did not occur. The first edition appeared as South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 19 of 1896; it was reissued in this octavo format the following year. 2 items. Corkwood Press hardcover
1994116302Bundaberg: Corkwood Press 1994. Hardcover. Fine. Bundaberg Corkwood Press 1994 facsimile edition/ 1896. Quarto four volumes ii xviii 220; ii iv 432; vi 204; and vi 200 pages with numerous illustrations plus 66 pages of plates several folding 13 in colour and a large folding map. Cloth; a fine set. The purpose of this scientific expedition sponsored by mining magnate and philanthropist William Austin Horn and with Charles Winnecke as commander and surveyor was to examine the MacDonnell Ranges on the not unreasonable premise that 'when the rest of the Continent was submerged the elevated portions of the McDonnell sic Range existed as an island and that consequently older forms of life might be found in the more inaccessible parts'. This in fact proved not to be the case but the expedition of some fourteen weeks and 2000 miles by camel was an outstanding success. 'It was not the intention . to explore a new region . But in the pursuit of natural history the expedition split into independent groups and explored undiscovered areas thus filling in more of the blank spaces in this vast region' Feeken Feeken and Spate. 'These volumes constitute one of the most substantial contributions in nineteenth-century Australian exploration but perhaps more importantly the expedition is a landmark in anthropological history because it resulted in Baldwin Spencer meeting Frank Gillen' Mulvaney. Limited to only 500 sets and sold out on publication. 4 items. Corkwood Press hardcover
1875124110Portsea: F.Johnson 1875. Photograph. very good. Origninal vintage albumen photograph 6.5 X 10.3 CM on original printed mount. Minor soiling and small tape stain on rear. Small old crease just effecting the image but not very visible. A very nice example. very good This wonderful CDV comprises an image of each crew member and the mascot. The central image is of the ship. Souvenir photographs of both the Alert and the Discovery were taken by rival photographers before the departure of the expedition. Both produced CDV copes as well as much larger examples. Although quite small each potrait is very clear and the name of the individual is usually readable with a magnifing glass. Very Scarce. 1875 F.Johnson unknown
1818E0061323 pages with a portrait frontispiece and five colored aquatints. Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 1/2" bound in attractive half leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. Hill 1168 Second and best edition<br /><br />The <i>Alceste</i> brought Lord Amherst to China to serve as ambassador and specifically to negotiate the China trade at the time a matter of dispute between China and Great Britain. M'Leod who was surgeon on the ship describes the voyage out the various calls in the East Indies including touching at Batavia surveying off Korea the visit to Okinawa another to Manila and the shipwreck off the coast of Sumatra and subsequent rescue from Malay pirates. A brief but interesting interview with Napoleon at St. Helena is also included in the narrative. This was one of the most popular travel books of its time portraying the Far East to a much wider audience than had been reached by earlier accounts. The idyllic descriptions of Lewchew undoubtedly appealed to the romantic sensibilities of the era. Indeed buoyed by its success M'Leod published another work recounting his time as a slaver <i>A Voyage to Africa with some Account of the Manners and Customs of the Dahomian People</i>.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Attractive half rebind some foxing through out with no spotting to plates else a very good copy. John Murray hardcover