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196092662Jerusalem: Magnes Press Hebrew University 1960. Hardcover. Near fine with gently rubbed corners; in a very good jacket with a few small closed edge-tears to rear and now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Folio in pale orange-yellow illus jacket; xxiv 174 pages ccx plates 12 folded: illustrations maps plans; 35 cm; bibliographical references page xvii. Antiquities. Ausgrabung; Hazor Extinct city Israel -- Hazor Extinct city Hazor; Excavations Archaeology; Israel; Geschichte; 1956; Hazor Extinct city; Bible -- Antiquities. Biblical archaeology. A large heavy book. Extra shipping charges may apply for international & expedited orders.Weighs close to 6 lbs before packing. Please inquire. Magnes Press, Hebrew University hardcover
199522778Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear to DJ small red mark on FFEP.; Book as new. Appendix includes Inuit terms and place names notes bibliography and index.; McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies - Volume 10; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 184 pages; "Presenting a new theory about one of the Arctic's unsolved mysteries David Woodman re-evaluates the importance of Inuit oral traditions in his search to reconstruct the events surrounding Sir John Franklin's tragic 1845 expedition. He argues that Inuit stories of white men travelling across the Melville Peninsula may in fact refer to survivors of the Franklin expedition." jacket blurb . 0773513485 . McGill-Queen's University Press hardcover
198222210Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 906191096X . With maps and charts throughout a near fine copy in near fine dustjacket. ; 235 x 160mm; x 246 pages . A. A. Balkema hardcover
1970BOOKS000180<p>2 Volumes: xxxii368 pages with frontispiece five folding maps and ten plates; ix369-640 pages with frontispiece two folding maps six plates bibliography and index. Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 1/2" issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship to front cover. Translated by Anthony Mango. Second Series volumes 138 and 139. First edition.<br /><br />By the early sixteenth century the loosely knit kingdom of Georgia had disintegrated from the strong monarch of the middle ages to a number of small states and principalities. This internal disunity made the Georgians easy victims of the power politics of the neighboring Ottoman and Safavid empires and by the end of the century the southward drive of the Russians intensified the struggle for military and diplomatic control over the whole of the Caucasian isthmus. As a result of this struggle seventeen embassies were exchanged between the Russian tsars and the Georgian kins ruling in Kakheti during the years 1564-1605. W E D Allen and Anthony Mango who undertook the translation have selected the documents relating to the embassies of 1589-90 and 1604-5. Although the writers seem to be frequently pre-occupied with questions of protocol their observations give a clear picture both of current Russian administrative and diplomatic practice and of the life and customs of the people of the Caucasus and Georgia. The texts are further enlivened by dramas such as the murder of the Kakhian King Alexander II and the secret negotiations for the marriages of the son and daughter of the Tsar Boris Godunov. The documents are of considerable geographical interest as they provide the earliest extant accounts of the crossing of the main chain of the Caucasus from north to south. Allen provides both a detailed background introduction and full commentary and notes on the texts. The second volume also contains some valuable genealogical tables which clarify the complicated relationships between the Caucasian royal and princely families and their connection with the Russian Ottoman and Persian ruling houses.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Some light rubbing to spine ends else better than very good copies in liker jackets.</p> Hakluyt Society hardcover
1993w160121301University of Arizona Press 1993. 477pp. Navy blue cloth hardback with small slight waterstain on lower back spine edge DJ VG with slight waterstain on backside near lower spine edge index appendices bibliography b&w photos A geologist's history of Lunar exploration relates the site selection process where on the Moon the fieldwork should be conducted and what samples should be collected . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. University of Arizona Press Hardcover
196222763London: John Murray. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards show light shelf wear DJ shows slightly heavier wear with light chipping price-clipped. Previous owner's name on FFEP.; A bright solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. B&W photos throughout. 2 foldout maps in pristine condition at back of book. Wraparound artwork on DJ.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 367 pages; "John Hornby 1880–1927 was an English explorer best known for his expeditions in the Arctic region of northern Canada notably in the "Barren Lands" in the Northwest Territories of Canada." He would refuse to take provisions and live off the land became famous for his daring exploits. "In 1926 Hornby tried to spend a year in a spot by the Thelon River with his 18-year-old cousin Edgar Christian and another young man Harold Adlard. Unfortunately the trio missed the caribou migration southward and therefore lacked sufficient food to survive the winter. Hornby died of starvation along with his companions in 1927. The graves of the three men can be found by the Thelon River near Hornby Point.Hornby recommended in a report following his expedition with Critchell Bullock that the areas near the Thelon and Hanbury Rivers be created as a wildlife sanctuary. The Thelon Game Sanctuary was established in 1927 and renamed Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary in 1956." Wikipedia . John Murray hardcover
196921979The Egypt Exploration Society 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: A4 300 x 210mm approx. Single volume only of set or series. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact bar chips to top and/or bottom section of spine. No foxing in this copy. Edges slightly foxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Archaeology; Egypt; Ancient BC; Exploration. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item not stock photos. Inventory No: 21979. . The Egypt Exploration Society paperback
196821977The Egypt Exploration Society 1968. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: A4 300 x 210mm approx. Single volume only of set or series. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact bar chips to top and/or bottom section of spine. No foxing in this copy. Edges slightly foxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Archaeology; Egypt; Ancient BC; Exploration. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item not stock photos. Inventory No: 21977. . The Egypt Exploration Society paperback
197121976The Egypt Exploration Society 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: A4 300 x 210mm approx. Single volume only of set or series. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact bar chips to top and/or bottom section of spine. Slight foxing front/rear pages but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Archaeology; Egypt; Ancient BC; Exploration. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item not stock photos. Inventory No: 21976. . The Egypt Exploration Society paperback
196721980The Egypt Exploration Society 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: A4 300 x 210mm approx. Single volume only of set or series. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact bar chips to top and/or bottom section of spine. Slight foxing front/rear pages but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges slightly foxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Archaeology; Egypt; Ancient BC; Exploration. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item not stock photos. Inventory No: 21980. . The Egypt Exploration Society paperback
196621978The Egypt Exploration Society 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: A4 300 x 210mm approx. Single volume only of set or series. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact bar chips to top and/or bottom section of spine. No foxing in this copy. Edges slightly foxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Archaeology; Egypt; Ancient BC; Exploration. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item not stock photos. Inventory No: 21978. . The Egypt Exploration Society paperback
191231945Copenhagen Reitzel 1912. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. Wrappers with soiling. XI426 pp. and 19 plates incl. geological maps textillustrations. <br/><br/><em>First edition of the main and first geological survey of Southern Greenland. At the end Ussing gives a general account of the expedition in Danish. - Meddelelser om Grønland Bd. 38. </em> unknown
1964007892Philadelphia PA: J.B. Lippincott 1964. First Edition First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Good. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Embossed blue linen boards/NF. DJ/Good; nips chips to edges & small losses to upper/lower spine & lower corners. Dyed upper text edge; map to endpapers. Record of first American ascent of Mt. Everest 1963. Led by Swiss born explorer film-maker and veteran mountaineer Norman G. Dyhrenfurth whose father led international expeditions to Kangechejunga and Batoro in the 1930s. Sponsored by Nat'l Geographic Society the expedition was scientific research in nature; the team was the most academically brilliant . 5 members with doctorates and 8 holding masters degrees. May 22nd 1963. Luther G/ Jerstad and Barry Bishop reach the summit of the South East Ridge via South Col route while Will Usoeld and Tom Hornbein of the West Ridge team conquered the West Ridge/Northface; the two teams rendevous and descend together. July 8th the Expedition was received at the White House by President Kennedy and awarded the Nat'l Georgraphic Society's Hubbard Metal. An exciting chronicle by celebrated author on the subject of mountaineering and official historian for the expedition James Ramsy Ullman 1907 - 1971 who was distinguished by being the oldest member of the team at the age of fifty-five. Illustrated with b/w photographs. <br/> <br/> J.B. Lippincott hardcover
191232967London : Seeley Servive & Co 1912 . Second Edition . Very Good . 8VO . The second edition published in the same year as the first and identical to it with the addition of a new Preface. With 38 black and white photos and a small folding map of Nigeria at rear. A little bit of shelfwear and wear to the corners and light wear to the spine tips some very mild foxing on some of the early pages. A bright solid and very attractive copy bound in the original blind and gilt stamped terra cotta cloth. A handsome book. Seeley, Servive & Co hardcover
196016525Moscow: Editions en langues etrangeres. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. c.1960. Hardcover. Dust jacket shows edgewear chipping and short tears water damage across top edge. White cloth covered boards with silver and black design show water damage to front board; A tight solid book dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Fold out map showing the areas of influence of the various countries and the extent of progress of the Russian expedition during the 1956-1958 period. Many B&W photos show life on the expedition and the equipment they used. Text in French; B&W Photographs; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 270 pages; Trechnikov/Treshnikov/Tryoshnikov was a Russian geographer and oceanologist who lived 1914-1991 and published many articles and books on conditions at both the Arctic and Antarctic. He was so highly regarded that he had a star and an icebreaker named for him. During the International Geophysical Year in 1957-1958 the Soviet Union established its presence in the Antarctic starting a series of Soviet Antarctic Expeditions. The first expeditions led by Mikhail Somov Aleksei Treshnikov and Yevgeny Tolstikov made multiple discoveries in the inner areas of Antarctica and reached the Southern Pole of inaccessibility and the Southern Pole of Cold. At the latter location on the site of the Vostok Station the subglacial Lake Vostok one of the last major geographical discoveries on Earth was detected deep below the Antarctic ice shield. This book is an account of that expedition with observations about ice conditions weather and wildlife seals & the different varieties of penguins. . Editions en langues etrangeres hardcover
1960144913London: The Trans-Antarctic Expedition Committee 1960-1. Large quarto. 14 volumes. Original printed wrappers string-bound. Edges of wrappers slightly sunned. Fifteenth part comprises 15 folding maps and the written report housed in a slipcase. Front board of slipcase bowed-in with a few creases to the spine. All volumes complete tightly-bound and clean internally. Most parts in modern blue card slip cases. A beautiful set. Spence 1213. The complete scientific reports from the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958 lead by Dr. Vivian Fuchs who was knighted for his efforts and Sir Edmund Hillary. The TAE was the first complete overland crossing of Antarctica and the third expedition ever to reach the South Pole overland after Amundsen in 1911 and Scott in 1912. The expedition conducted a variety of oceanographic glacial geological meteorological and biological sampling the results of which are presented here and illustrated by hundreds of figures from photographs folding maps and tables. Although the reports were issued in 15 parts #6 was never printed. Uncommon to find this set complete and in fine condition. 1960 The Trans-Antarctic Expedition Committee unknown
1959075934Los Angeles: Westernlore Press 1959. 1st printing. Inscribed by Timberman on second front flyleaf. A square clean copy in full cloth binding. Map endpapers. 163pp. Photos. Unclipped 4.95 dust jacket is lightly rubbed with some chipping at spine ends. In a protective mylar cover. Inscribed and Signed By Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Westernlore Press Hardcover
1938TRAF00004New York: The Macmillan Company 1938 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full red cloth reverse foil titles on spine xi 265 pp 4 maps 20 ff b & w photo plates. Half of plate 17 missing large chip to margin of pp 135-6 tears to margins of plate 16 pp 127-8 otherwise very good cloth sunned on spine & near top & fore-edges partially removed bookplate on fpd. Memoir of the author's fourteen years in Africa during which time he farmed land awarded to war veterans in British East Africa later Kenya climbed mountains Kenya Mountain Ruwenzori and Kilimanjaro prospected for gold and finally began his return to England by bicycling most of the way across the continent from Uganda to Cameroon. In the same year this book was published Tilman led an attempt to climb Mt. Everest having previously taken part in a 1935 reconaissance expedition. Bad weather forced the abandonment of the 1938 attempt. 95 pages and 16 of the 20 plates are devoted to mountaineering. Shipping weight 2 lbs. First US Edition. . Fair/No dj. 22 X 15 cm. The Macmillan Company Hardcover
196744603Copenhagen 1967-69. 4to. Orig. hcloth. 12918453 pp. tables and more that 200 plates. some folding. Clean and fine. hardcover
1985mon0003599644Univ of Tokyo Pr 1985-09-01. Hardcover. Good. . Univ of Tokyo Pr 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
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
1920501237<p>"V. Stefansson" in black fountain pen ink on pictorial American Geographical Society letterhead Ottawa Ontario Canada July 9 1920. 8 1/2" x 11"; 1 page; very good. Together with the original typed envelope stamped and postmarked Ottawa Ont. July 9 1920 with two stamps. To Dr. William C. Thro East Northport Long Island New York "Dear Dr. Thro: If I were only in New York I should take instant advantage of your invitation to visit you on the Long Island coast but I shall be spending most of my summer in Canada with only an odd visit to the city. I shall look you up in the fall or whenever I come to be regularly in New York. I hope both you and Mrs. Thro have a delightful summer. V. Stefansson." Stefansson 1879-1962 American ethnologist/explorer/author; lived amongst the Eskimo 1906-07; Canadian/Alaskan Arctic expedition commander 1913-18; consultant to Dartmouth College's Northern Studies program 1947-62.</p> unknown
192553796London Oxford University Press 1925-29. Royal8vo. 2 orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering on spines. Containing 33 25 original offprints published in various periodicals in various sizes published between 1921-29 some with plates and textillustrations in the fields of geology zoology geography hydrography glaciology etc. hardcover
19701702London: Spring Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. First Thus. Hard Cover. xii 337pgs colour frontis; many other illustrations dust jacket is faded on spine and front.; 285 x 220mm . Spring Books hardcover
