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A Very Gallant Gentleman Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

By: BERNACCHI, L. C.;

Price: £28.00

Publisher: London Thornton Butterworth 1933 3rd:

Seller ID: 76792

Hardback. Size approx 8 x 5.5 inches. In purple cloth covers with white lettering on spine. Blind embossed line edging to boards and publishers logo to corner. In very good condition. Spine faded/darkened. Rubbing to edges and along leading edge of front board. Minor marks to rear. Endpapers slightly darkened else Inside pages clean and tight throughout. 240pp. With 10 b&w photograph illustrations.
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My Attainment of the Pole. Being the Record of the Expedition that First Reached the Boreal Center 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy.

By: COOK, Dr. FREDERICK A.;

Price: £275.00

Publisher: New York The Polar Publishing Co. 1911 1st edition:

Seller ID: 76752

Hardback. Approx 10 x 7.5 inches. In brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front and design of faces to front. In very good condition. Minor rubbing to edges, corners and ends of spine. Endpapers very good. Front itssue guard slightly darkened along edge. Else inside pages very clean and tight throughout. An excellent copy. 604pp. 50 B&W photo illustrations. Including some B&W diagrams and tailpieces.
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In the Antarctic. Stories of Scott’s Last Expedition.

By: DEBENHAM, FRANK: SCOTT:

Price: £30.00

Publisher: John Murray 1952 1st:

Seller ID: 83457

Hardback, 8 x 5 inches. Cream cloth with blue snowflake design and lettering. In Illustrated dustwrapper. Maps to endpapers. In very good condition. With good dustwrapper (DW with tears and chips to edges and corners, some darkening, in protective sleeve, not price clipped.) Some darkening to edges of cloth, some minor foxing to edges of endpapers. Bookseller label to front “E.S. Fowler, Eastbourne.” No penned inscriptions. Inside pages all clean and tight throughout. Else a very clean and tight copy. 146 pp. Many line drawings by the author and Edward Wilson. Stories of the voyage...
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To The Ends Of The Earth. SIGNED COPY.

By: FIENNES, RANULPH:

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 1983 (1st.):

Seller ID: 83524

Hardback, Tall 8vo. 10 x 7 inches. Grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (DW some minor rubbing to edges, not price clipped.) Cloth clean and smart, endpapers clean. Authors signature to main title page. Pages all very clean and tight throughout. Else a very clean and tight copy. 320pp. Illustrated with 9 maps and many colour photographs. Story of the Transglobe expedition.
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Of Ice and Men. The Story of the British Antarctic Survey 1943-73.

By: FUCHS, SIR VIVIAN:

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Anthony Nelson 1982 (1st.).:

Seller ID: 76802

Hardback. Size approx 9 x 6 inches. In blue cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine and front, in original illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW edges slightly rubbed.) Cloth clean. Inside pages clean and tight throughout. A very clean and tight copy. 612p. Fold-out Maps. Colour & B&W photo plates.
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The Tragedy of the Italia With the Rescuers to the Red Tent. Special Correspondent of the “Corriere della Sera” on board the Krassin.

By: GIUDICI, Davide;

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London Ernest Benn Ltd. 1928 1st edition:

Seller ID: 76794

Hardback. Size approx 9 x 5.5 inches. In black cloth covers with white lettering on spine. In very good condition. Some rubbing to corners and around edges. Ends of spine rubbed. Minor rubbing to boards. Some dark spotting to outer page edges else inside pages clean and tight throughout. 216pp. Many b&w photo illustrations. Folding map at rear.
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The Cradle of the North Wind. With a Portrait and 2 Maps.

By: GODFREY, A. S. T.;

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London Methuen & Co. Limited. 1938 1st edition:

Seller ID: 76871

Hardback. Size approx 8 x 5 ins. In black cloth, light blue lettering to spine. In original illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW darkened, some marks, corners and ends of spine chipped with some loss.) Some light spots to endpapers. Foxing spots to outer page edges else pages clean and tight. 234pp. Maps to endpapers. Frontis portrait.
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General Stratigraphy With 10 Maps and 36 Illustrations. Important Association Copy.

By: GREGORY, J. W.: BARRETT, B. H.:

Price: £95.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co., 1931 1st ed:

Seller ID: 78260

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and blind embossed lettering to front. In Very good condition. A couple of small faults to cover; corners rubbed and a little bumped, chip to center of, and rubbing to spine and spine ends. Some minor rubbing to front. Inscription to front endpaper “G.C. Simpson.” A couple of small neat notations to margins, else inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. Loose letter in front. --- Important association copy that belonged to Sir George Simpson, meteorologist on Scott’s Last Expedition to the Antarctic ...
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The Norwegian With Scott Tryggve Gran’s Antarctic Diary 1910-1913.

By: HATTERSLEY-SMITH, G.; McGHIE, E. J.; GREENHILL, B.;

Price: £35.00

Publisher: National Maritime Museum Her Majesty’s Stationary Office 1984 1st edition:

Seller ID: 76782

Hardback. Size approx 10 x 6 inches. In blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, in original illustrated glossy dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper. A Very clean & tight copy. 258pp. B&W photo illustrations and maps.
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The Amundsen Photographs Edited and Introduced by Roland Huntford.

By: HUNTFORD, Roland;

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London Hodder & Stoughton 1987 1st edition:

Seller ID: 76808

Large hardback. size approx 11.5 x 9 inches. Brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine. In illustrated glossy dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrapper. Some minor rubbing to edges of both. With loose news clipping in front. 199pp. B&W & colour photo illustrations throughout.
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White Horizon

By: LIVERSIDGE, DOUGLAS:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London Odhams Press Limited 1951 1st edition:

Seller ID: 76766

Hardback. Size approx 8.5 x 5.5 inches. In blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, in original illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW edges rubbed, spine faded, tears along top edge.) Spine; ends of spine and top edges of cloth faded. Small mark to front board. Neat inscription to front endpaper, some darkening to outer page edges else inside pages clean and tight. 255pp. With B&W photo illustrations.
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Captain Scott The Full Story

By: LUDLAM, Harry;

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd. 1965 1st edition:

Seller ID: 76769

Hardback. Size approx 9 x 6 inches. In black cloth lettered in gilt on spine, in original illustrated dustwrapper. Top edges blued. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW edges rubbed, spine faded, rubbing to corners and ends of spine, darkened on rear.) Cloth fading on boards. Inside pages very clean and tight throughout. 239pp. With B&W photo illustrations and maps.
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Two Against The Ice Admunsen and Ellsworth

By: MASON, Theodore K.;

Price: £10.00

Publisher: New York Dodd, Mead & Company 1982 1st edition:

Seller ID: 76771

Hardback. Size approx 9 x 6 inches. In blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, in original illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW minor rubbing to edges and corners.) Cloth clean. Inside pages clean & tight throughout. Else an excellent copy. 192pp. Many B&W photo illustrations.
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Nansen’s "Farthest North". Two volumes. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship “Fram” 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram.

By: NANSEN, FRIDTJOF:

Price: £400.00

Publisher: George Newnes Ltd. 1898.:

Seller ID: 82788

2 vols. Hardback, approx 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Full dark diced calf leather fine bindings, spines lettered in gilt, with raised banding and extensive gilt decoration to spines, gilt paneled boards and gilt edge dentelles, marbled endpapers and full gilt page edges. Gilt “bound-arrows” details to spines and board corners. In very good conditions. Slight fading to spines. Some rubbing to edges and corners, Some minor rubbing to boards with small surface chip to rear of vol.2 and small nick to rear edge of vol.1. Bookplates to endpapers “Schol. Harrov.” Some moderate foxing to...
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Nansen’s "Farthest North". Two volumes. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship “Fram” 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram.

By: NANSEN, FRIDTJOF:

Price: £125.00

Publisher: George Newnes Ltd. 1898.:

Seller ID: 82452

2 vols. Size 9 x 6.5 inches. Attractive original bevelled blue pictorial cloth hardback with gilt and silver illustrations to spine and front. In very good condition. Some very light rubbing to boards. Volume I very light scuff center of spine, & a few very light creases. Pages very clean and tight throughout. Maps and plates all clean and tight. Else very clean and tight copies. 480, 456pp. With b&w photoplates, illustrations and photos in text. Large fold out colour map at rear Vol 1. Classic account of the Nansen’s ‘Fram’ expedition 1893-96, a remarkable achievemen...
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With Stefansson in the Arctic. With Illustrations.

By: NOICE, Harold;

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1925 repr:

Seller ID: 76751

Hardback. Approx 8 x 6 inches. In green cloth with blind embossed lettering and border to front board, gilt lettering to spine. In very good condition. Spine faded. Minor marks to rear. Previous owners bookplate to front endpaper “Doris Rayner, London County Council”. 270pp. 19 b&w photo illustrations. B&W folding map at rear. With diagrams.
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The North Pole. Introduction by THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

By: PEARY, ROBERT E.:

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton. 1910 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 76745

Hardback. Tall 8vo. (approx 10 x 8 inches.) Grey cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine and front with white Polar Bear on spine and back with gilt medallion portrait on front. White edging. In very good condition. Cover is worn and darkened and faded in areas. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Spine rubbed. A couple of small marks. Endpapers darkened. Neat inscription to front. Mild foxing to endpapers and outside page edges. Else a clean and tight copy. This book is Peary's record of his last expedition 1908-09 and the voyage of the 'Roosevelt' through the ice of Smith So...
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The North Pole. With an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. (Classics of Exploration Series)

By: PEARY, Robert E.;

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Time Life Books, 1987:

Seller ID: 77522

Hardback, 8vo. (5.5 x 8.5 inches). Brown leather binding with raised banding to spine and Red / gold decororation and lettering. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. In excellent, near fine condition. No inscriptions or marks. With portrait, folding maps and numerous illustrations. 326pp. Loosely laid in is a leaf by “Time Life Books” giving detailed information on the author and his life. “This leather-bound volume - lavishly illustrated and complete with two fold-out maps - has been photographically reproduced from the first edition published in 1910 and thus preserves the ...
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Arctic Journeys. The Story of the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition 1934-5. Preface by LORD TWEEDSMUIR.

By: SHACKLETON, EDWARD:

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1937 1st edition:

Seller ID: 76749

Hardback. 9 x 6 inches. In blue cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine. In very good condition. Spine faded, light fading around edges. Minor scratches to boards. Inside pages clean and tight. Else a very clean and tight copy. The expedition was composed of Oxford University students with a Leader and a Sergeant of the RCMP. They spent the winter of 1934/5 in Northern Greenland and then split into three groups to explore further, one group discovering a new range of mountains. 319pp. Many b&w photo illustrations, illustrated tailpeices, b&w maps and diagrams. Large folding coloured ...
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