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19240008935London: A. M. Philpot Ltd. 1924. First Trade edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo 240 pages brown cloth untrimmed for and bottom edges. partially unopened; ex libris Thomas Barbour. <br/><br/>Penzer was of course Burton's bibliographer. He has selected ten excellent but obscure writings by Burton on Sind Mecca Harar Tanganyika and also Rome and Biovannie Battista Belzoni. A. M. Philpot Ltd. hardcover
1978227851Stalling Verlag, 1978.
192715213London: John Murray. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1927. Cheap Edition. Hardcover. With biographical introduction by J. M. Barrie and a preface by Sir Clements R. Markham K. C. B. F. R. S. pagination - xxviii 522 last blank 2 pages of publishers adverts illustrated with photographs by Herbert Ponting endpaper maps original blue cloth with printed image of ski-ing party spine lightly faded with a facsimile dust jacket. A very good copy. ; 205 x 135mm . John Murray hardcover
19133113London: Smith Elder & Co. 1913. Third Edition . Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue/gilt. Vol I 5vi-xxvi12-636pplfold out maps.illuscolorteg.Being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott.Vol II 5vi-xvi32-534pfold out maps plilluscolor.Being the Reports of the journeys & the Scienfific Work Arranged by leonard Huxley with a Preface by Sir Clements R Markham Both copies clean tight with fine interior. Head and tail crimped. 6 original Sketches 18 coloured plates 260 Full-Page and smaller Illustrations from Photographs. Panoramas and Maps. Stated Third Edition after Ht page <br/> <br/> Smith, Elder & Co. hardcover
2000111733Prospero Books, 2000. 24 cm ; Pp.
19600042851960 Original pictorial postcard with Nepali Stamps. Signed by 6 team members Max Eiselin Kurt Diemberger Albin Schelbert Ernst Forrer Peter Diener and Jerzy Hajdukiewicz and two sherpas. A near fine copy. The first ascent of Dhaulagiri then the highest unclimbed peak by a Swiss team lead by Max Eiselin in 1960. See Max Eiselin 'The Ascent of Dhaulagiri' and Kurt Diemberger's 'Summits and Secrets' both of which can be purchased from us. Signed by the Team Members. unknown
19580036461958 Original pictorial postcard with Nepali and Indian Stamps. Signed by 5 team members including Max Eiselin and Detlef Hecker. A near fine copy. A souvenir of one of the earlier unsuccessful Swiss attempts at the first ascent of Dhaulagiri. See Max Eiselin 'The Ascent of Dhaulagiri' and Kurt Diemberger's 'Summits and Secrets' both of which can be purchased from us. Signed by the Team Members. unknown
19600037021960 Original pictorial postcard with Nepali Stamps P 28. Signed by 6 team members Max Eiselin Kurt Diemberger Albin Schelbert Ernst Forrer Peter Diener and Jerzy Hajdukiewicz and two sherpas. A near fine copy. The first ascent of Dhaulagiri then the highest unclimbed peak by a Swiss team lead by Max Eiselin in 1960. See Max Eiselin 'The Ascent of Dhaulagiri' and Kurt Diemberger's 'Summits and Secrets' both of which can be purchased from us. Signed by the Team Members. unknown
19600039081960 Original pictorial postcard with four Nepali Stamps. Signed by 8 team members Max Eiselin Kurt Diemberger Albin Schelbert Ernst Forrer Peter Diener Hugo Weber Michel Vaucher and Jerzy Hajdukiewicz and two sherpas. A very good copy. The first ascent of Dhaulagiri then the highest unclimbed peak by a Swiss team lead by Max Eiselin in 1960. See Max Eiselin 'The Ascent of Dhaulagiri' and Kurt Diemberger's 'Summits and Secrets' both of which can be purchased from us. Signed by the Team Members. unknown
194032320Amstutz & Herdeg, Zürich, 1940. 2. Auflage, 152 Seiten, einige Abbildungen; Gr.-8°, ca. 23 xy 16 cm, Leinen
19699040-0283Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1969. Oktav, Org.-Hardcover mit illustr. Org.-SU, XXXI (+ I), 6 Tafelbll., 4 unnumerierte Bll., 132 S., 2 unnumerierte Bll., mit diversen sw-Illustrationen nach alten Kupferstichen, der SU etwas gebräunt, mit wenigen Anstreichungen in Blei (radierbar), sonst sehr gutes Exemplar. [Frühe Reisen und Seefahrten]. [Frühe Reisen und Seefahrten].
193215510Voigtländer`s Verlag, Leipzig, 1932. 203 Seiten, ca 22,5x16,5cm, OLeinen Gutes Exemplar. Good copy. Veröffentlichung des Forschungsinstituts für Kulturmorphologie e.V. Frankfurt. Das Leinen am Rand etwas nachgedunkelt.
1977111714Heusenstamm: Orion-Heimreiter-Verlag, 1977. 21,5 cm ; Leinen
199929113N.P.:: XLibris 1999. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. Sacajawea is by far the most memorialized female in American history. According to the U. S. Government "More statues streams lakes landmarks parks songs ballads and poems honor this young woman than any other woman in American history. Without Sacajawea's navigational diplomatic and translating skills the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition would have perished." Yet controversy still rages as to whether she died in 1812 in South Dakota or in 1884 in Wyoming. And where is she buried South Dakota or Wyoming. This book answers those questions by validating the Oral or Traditional History of her own people the Shoshones and explains why many white historians including Ken Burns and Steven Ambrose are wrong concerning the death and the burial spot of America's greatest and most beloved female icon. XLibris, unknown
19321666Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1932. 335 S., geprägter OLn (dieser verschmutzt und mit kleinen Läsuren an den Kanten und Ecken), innen mit wenigen Stockflecken, eingeklebter Zeitungsartikel auf Vorsatz, Klammerheftung (dieses angerostet, dadurch eine Lage lose), mit 74 Abbildungen nach Aufnahmen und Zeichnungen des Verfassers und seiner Mitarbeiter, sowie zwei vierfarbigen Karten. 2.Auflage. Trotz der beschriebenen Mängel ein ordentliches Exemplar. Good copy.
1940103192Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1940. IX + 335 S. Gr.-8° Groß-Oktav, Leinen
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
196017737Düsseldorf : Hoch, 1960. 317 S., [16] Taf. 8°. 1. Aufl. Bibl.- Einbd.
198769219Beijing: Science Press 1987. 8vo pp. 4 vi 510; printed from typescript; graphs maps tables illustrations throughout; previous owner's bookplate otherwise near fine in original blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. "From May to September 1981 the Sino-W. German Joint Expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau made multi-disciplinary investigations of glaciology permafrost climatic geomorphology geology surveying and remote sensing in the Anyêmaqên Mountains Qilian Mountains and a part of the Kunlun Mountains. A symposium on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau was held at Braunschweig in April 1982 . and scientists from West Germany China Switzerland and Austria took part in it. The following five topics relating to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau were discussed: 1. Glaciers and glacier oscillations; 2. Ice and frost regions; 3. Geomorphological types; 4. Vegetations weather and climate; 5. Recent and ancient alpine climate in Asia" Preface. Science Press unknown
1935145162Cambridge: At the University Press 1935. First Edition. Very Good. Cambridge At the University Press 1935 first edition. Quarto xvi 422 pages with 10 maps and 52 illustrations plus 11 pages of plates from photographs. Grey buckram lettered in gilt on the spine; buckram lightly spotted possibly a minor issue with the binding material itself; edges lightly foxed or marked; minimal signs of age and handling; an excellent copy. The reports of this important expedition 1898-1899 were published in six volumes between 1901 and 1935 this being the last to appear. It includes studies of the material culture social organisation religious beliefs languages and folk tales of the peoples of the Torres Strait Islands and southern New Guinea. At the University Press unknown
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
1994146592Bundaberg: Corkwood Press 1994. Hardcover. Very Good. Bundaberg Corkwood Press 1994 facsimile edition/ 1896. The facsimile was 'produced in conjunction with the Horn Expedition Commemorative Symposium held at Alice Springs to celebrate the centenary of the Horn expedition'; it was produced with financial support from the Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory. Quarto four volumes ii xviii 220 pages with illustrations and a map plus 11 pages of plates and a large folding map 650 × 615 mm; ii iv 432 pages with illustrations plus 28 pages of plates 1 folding 11 in colour and a corrigenda slip at page 1; vi 204 pages with illustrations plus 9 pages of plates 2 folding; and vi 200 pages with illustrations plus 20 pages of plates 6 folding 4 of them in colour. Half calf and marbled papered boards; spines lightly sunned; a few corners bumped; an excellent set. Number 15 of only 50 sets of the deluxe issue; not stated but we know the entire print run was limited to 500 sets. This copy is complete with the full complement of plates in Volume 4 ten of which are sometimes found excised from this edition 'at the request of Central Australian Aboriginal custodians as they illustrate things persons or events which according to their traditional customs may only be seen by initiated males' from the publisher's note present in these sets; it is our understanding that only sets sold at or through the Horn Expedition Commemorative Symposium held at Alice Springs in 1994 underwent this operation. <p>The purpose of the original 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. McLaren 15098 the original edition. 4 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
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
1922314367Ottawa: F. A. Acland 1922. 5 of 12 parts comprised of the Introduction Preface and errata and parts A B and G. With a duplicate of the Preface part. 5 vols. 8vo. Three in original wrappers. 5 of 12 parts comprised of the Introduction Preface and errata and parts A B and G. With a duplicate of the Preface part. 5 vols. 8vo. Five individual parts from Volume III of the official reports of the Expedition organized and led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson. <br/><br/> F. A. Acland unknown
