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1994ref. 116302Bundaberg: 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
1886ref. 15246N. 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
1964ref. 109084Carlton: 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
1862ref. 57939Melbourne: Government Printer 1862. First Edition. Paperback. Melbourne Government Printer 1862 and 1862. Foolscap folio two papers 51 and 31 pages. Title-wrappers stab-sewn as issued; a few uncut edges a little foxed; an excellent pair. Victorian Parliamentary Papers Number 108 and 109 of 1861-2. The expedition was 'for the purpose of rendering relief if possible to the missing explorers under the command of Mr Burke; and directing the movements of the two land parties organized and despatched on the same mission of humanity from Brisbane and Rockhampton' under Landsborough and Walker respectively. Paper 109 gives Norman's account of the activities of his own party; Paper 108 in spite of its prosaic title is almost exclusively devoted to detailed accounts by Landsborough 33 pages and Walker 16 pages. Landsborough's reports include an account of the voyage and wreck of the hired transport 'Firefly'; two on the Albert River and the surrounding country and the journal of his south-western expedition 20 pages. Walker's reports include the journal of his expedition from Rockhampton to the Albert River 12 pages; its first and only publication. Three maps are referred to in the list of contents of Paper 108; these maps are rarely seen and were apparently issued only in copies made available to Victorian Members of Parliament. 2 items. Government Printer paperback
1996ref. 146363Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty & Sons 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Chipping Norton Surrey Beatty & Sons 1996. Folio x 398 pages with numerous figures and illustrations from photographs some in colour plus a front endpaper map. Papered boards; a fine copy with the very good dustwrapper sunned about the spine and lightly rubbed. The book reviews the achievements and reassesses the significance of the expedition with contributions from 'prehistorians historians anthropologists biologists ecologists geologists Aboriginal people and social commentators'. Not indicated but limited to 1200 copies. Surrey Beatty & Sons hardcover
1971ref. 146059Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1971. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1971/ 1963 facsimile edition/ 1861. Octavo ii ii facsimile front wrapper iv 36 pages plus a frontispiece portraits and a large folding map. Synthetic cloth; rear endpaper a little tanned; an excellent copy. Originally reprinted from 'The Argus'. Peade A10: a total of 970 copies 1963 and 1971 reprints. Libraries Board of South Australia hardcover
1996ref. 144082Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty & Sons 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Chipping Norton Surrey Beatty & Sons November 1996. Quarto x 398 pages with numerous figures maps and illustrations many from photographs plus a front endpaper map. Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. The book reviews the achievements and reassesses the significance of the expedition with contributions from 'prehistorians historians anthropologists biologists ecologists geologists Aboriginal people and social commentators'. Not indicated but limited to 1200 copies. Surrey Beatty & Sons hardcover
1943ref. 140785Melbourne: Bread and Cheese Club 1943. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne Bread and Cheese Club 1943. Small quarto 32 pages with an illustration and 12 pages of musical scores plus a frontispiece. Saddle-stapled card covers slightly rubbed and creased at the extremities; an excellent copy. The SY 'Morning' originally named 'Morgenen' was a Norwegian-built steam yacht one of two relief vessels for Captain Scott's British National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904. The songs were 'Compiled and composed by Captain Gerald S. Doorly One Time Third Executive Officer S.Y. "Morning"'. Rosove 98.A1. Bread and Cheese Club paperback
ref. PD27Oblong Quarto album ca. 22x30 cm. 32 thick paper leaves. With 130 mounted original gelatin silver photographs with smaller ones from ca. 71x5 cm 2 ¾ x 2 in to ca. 36x3 cm 1 ½ x 1 ¼ in larger ones from ca. 163x103 cm 6 ½ x 4 in to 85x14 cm 3 ¼ x 5 ½ in and the rest of the photos ca. 76x11 cm 3 x 4 ½ in; with a mounted folding printed map showing the route of the expedition ca. 21x67 cm and a hand-drawn map of the expedition base camp ca. 20x282 cm. Most photos with period ink captions in Russian on the mounts. Several photographs with dates indicated. Period grey patterned full cloth album with blind-tooled decorations with industrial motif on the front board fastened with a string; dried flower specimens mounted to the inner side of the rear board. Binding slightly worn with mild damp stains on the right margin of the front board one page detached several photos age-toned and with mild silvering but overall a very good album with strong interesting photos. Historically significant album of rare original gelatin silver photographs taken and collected during the Nordvik-Khatanga Soviet Oil Exploration Expedition in 1939-1940. The compiler took part in the expedition together with his wife “Sonkes” who according to the photographs was head of a tailor's workshop at the expedition base camp in Nordvik. Neither reports nor official photographs from the expedition were found through our research of digital archives and libraries. The expedition organized by the USSR’s Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route at the onset of WWII aimed to study the oil potential of Nordvik Bay. A team of polar explorers set sail from Arkhangelsk on a steamship accompanied by a cargo convoy and powerful icebreakers. Navigating through the Yugorsky Shar Strait the expedition made several stops at Dixon Melyuskin and Vstrechny Islands before establishing its base in Nordvik Bay. Despite extensive operations drilling at Nordvik over the next seasons proved largely unsuccessful revealing only small oil pockets with little commercial value. The album contains 130 lively vernacular photographs from the 1939-1940 expedition including eight well-executed photos of the expedition base camp and its premises the general view of the settlement main street local bathhouse and canteen. About ten photographs portray construction works as the team members attempted to build rotor No. 2. The images depict the site of the rotor “the beginning of the work” workers pulling out a tankette from snow digging and using special equipment. There are also about a dozen photographs showing the general view of rotor No. 1 - “the first in the world in Arctic conditions” “a boiler room for rotor No. 1” “a rotor drilling rig No. 1 with machinery room” “steam winch 250 hp for rotor No. 1” “oil drilling rigs” “general view of a coal mine” etc. At least forty lively candid photographs show the expedition members mostly the compiler and his wife sewing at a tailor’s workshop resting after work feeding dogs and posing by a tankette on sleds in tents at a meteorological station by the storage room near the assembly crane etc. Especially interesting are five photos of a fire at a local hospital documenting the funeral of deceased polar explorers and the compiler standing solemnly beside the victims’ camp. There are also about ten candid individual and group portraits of local Yakuts showing “Sonkes with a young Yakut woman” “Yakut Family and Sonkes” “Yakut Man with a Purchase” young Yakut women in a school reading books and Yakut fishermen posing by their camp. The other interesting photos portray the expedition members at the October and May rallies with “Sonkes” clearly visible in the crowd four and two-engine seaplanes at Cape Kosisty “bird market on Vstrechny Island” steamships “Stalingrad” “Dixon” etc. and icebreakers “Ermak” “Litke” etc. from the expedition etc. The album closes with the general views of the bank of the Khatanga River the town Igarka and the Krasnoyarsk pillars. Overall historically important collection of 130 original gelatin silver photographs documenting the 1939-1940 Soviet Oil Exploration Expedition to Nordvik Bay. hardcover
1935ref. 9030684New York: Macmillan 1935. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Translated by Alec Brown. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine and cover stamped in white. Illustrated with forty photographs drawings maps and diagrams in black-and-white. Moderate wear and fading to the extremities of cover. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. 324 pages. Macmillan hardcover
1902ref. 25076Perth: Wm. Alfred Watson Government Printer 1902. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Perth Wm. Alfred Watson Government Printer 1902. Foolscap folio 62 pages with 4 illustrations plus a very large folding map 625 × 865 mm. Title-wrappers relatively recently bound in half calf and cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; title leaf slightly marked with trifling loss to the bottom corner-tip; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. Western Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 46 of 1902; only 1200 copies were printed. The 'expedition was fitted out to explore the remaining unknown regions of Australia on similar lines to the Elder expedition'. Lawrence Allen Wells third in command on the ill-fated Elder expedition of 1891-92 was leader. The party set out from Mullewa east of Geraldton on 13 June 1896; lack of water and the gruelling conditions brought the official expedition to an end on 6 November at Noonkanbah Station on the Fitzroy River with two men unaccounted for. It was not until late May of the following year that Wells located the bodies of the missing men his cousin Charles Wells and George Lindsay Jones nephew of the explorer David Lindsay. The detailed accounts of the three search expeditions undertaken by Wells accompanied by Nat Buchanan George Keartland and Sub-Inspector Ord respectively are included. Not least strong on contemporary race relations. Wm. Alfred Watson, Government Printer paperback
1956ref. 110549Carlton: Melbourne University Press 1956. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Carlton Melbourne University Press 1956. Quarto xxx 513 pages with 68 figures and 157 plates plus 2 colour plates. Original textured card covers with the title 'Arnhem Land. Art Myth and Symbolism' and the author's name on the spine and front cover; spine sunned cracked and chipped with minor loss; minimal expert conservation to the front joint; front and rear covers marked and unevenly discoloured with a few minor surface blemishes; edges a little marked and foxed with occasional foxing elsewhere; a decent copy internally in very good condition. The first and most important of the four volumes in the series published between 1956 and 1964. This copy is inscribed on the front free endpaper 'To Mr and Mrs W. McCaffrey with all good wishes from Charles P. Mountford 1960'. The standard binding is green cloth with a dustwrapper. We have handled a number of presentation copies of the first volume in wrappers and presume these less-expensive versions were provided to the author for this purpose. Melbourne University Press paperback
1896ref. 58059Adelaide: C.E. Bristow Government Printer 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide C.E. Bristow Government Printer 1896. Foolscap folio 32 pages including Appendix B: Report of the Physical Geography of Central Australia by Professor R. Tate and J.A. Watt plus 24 plates on 13 leaves printed rectos only and a folding meteorological chart 2 folding maps a topographical map of Mount Watt and a Survey of Hermannsburg Mission Station and a very large folding colour map 1210 × 1210 mm. Modern cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; blank bottom margin of the main map slightly creased with one tiny tear expertly sealed; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper 19 of 1896: only 650 copies printed. 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 and this first edition was published under the auspices of the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia in conjunction with the Department of the Minister for the Northern Territory and the Survey Department. McLaren 16973; an octavo edition was published the following year see McLaren 16969 - not noting the very large map. C.E. Bristow, Government Printer hardcover
1898ref. 20487Adelaide: RSSA 1898. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1898. Octavo pages 125-192 plus a tipped-in errata slip with several minor references to this article. Wrappers slightly and uniformly tanned acidic paper; a fine copy uncirculated. Keartland's field notes make this far more interesting than the 'List of Birds' title suggests. For example he concludes his account of the Nankeen kestrel thus: 'I took four eggs from a tree near our camp and was surprised to find the nest lined with pellets of camel dung. This is probably the first time this material has been used for nest-lining'. Indeed. Other articles of more-or-less general interest include KOCH Max: A List of Plants collected on Mount Lyndhurst Run 18 pages; BROWNE J. Harris: Use of the Wedge by the Natives of the Great Barrier Plain 1 page; and the address by the president W.L. Cleland 7 pages essentially on the anthropology of Australia. RSSA paperback
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ref. BN610349Karluk. Die Geschichte einer verratenen Expedition McKinlay William L and Seib Günter Karluk. Die Geschichte einer verratenen Expedition McKinlay William L and Seib Günter Karluk. Die Geschichte einer verratenen Expedition McKinlay William L and Seib Günter unknown
ref. BN92096DuMont Reiseverlag. Mit der Endurance in die Antarktis: Die Bilder der dramatischen Expedition 1914-1917 Hurley Frank and Hurley Frank Mit der Endurance in die Antarktis: Die Bilder der dramatischen Expedition 1914-1917 Hurley Frank and Hurley Frank Mit der Endurance in die Antarktis: Die Bilder der dramatischen Expedition 1914-1917 Hurley Frank and Hurley Frank DuMont Reiseverlag unknown
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1876ref. 895260551Excellent condition but missing the original map that was originally included. 11 fine chromolithographic and 11 lithographic plates. Publication of this report was originally intended for 1861 but the Civil War intervened and prevented publication for another fifteen years. The expedition under Macomb went west from Santa Fe across northern New Mexico and Arizona to the Colorado. The whole drainage of the San Juan had been traced and the relationship of that river with the Colorado clearly established. More important they had also established that the Green River united with the Grand to form the Colorado. The entire maze of intricate canyon country had been threaded and its geography revealed for the first time. In addition Newberry was able to establish numerous stratigraphic columns and to trace the Triassic Jurassic and Carboniferous strata far out across the Colorado River. Newberry.introduced a new level of sophistication into the study of western geology. Government printing office hardcover
1939ref. 7135London 1939. Photography & Ephemera. Three portraits of the "Westward" a beautiful four-mastered ship on board the "Westward" each with BAE 1937-9 stamped on the verso; and nine small snapshots of the same with the expedition on verso. The small photographs are snapshots with manuscript text on the verso- "Photo by Mr. Bishop July 1937"; "REP in Lookout on Westward June 1938" & "Southend Pier taken from rigging of Westward June 1939". "At work on board the 'Westward'". Published Daily Telegraph July 1939". The rest of the photographs are unidentified. Also an advertising memento of the expedition a paper wrapper for Horlick's Malted Milk printed on both sides with "British Antarctic Expedition 1937. Horlick's" with other Horlick's information. After three years of fund raising efforts WWII finally put an end to Ernest Walker's expedition. Photographs range from 8x6" to 3 1/2 x 2 1/2". The large ones are stamped "Associated Press" on the verso along with the "British Antarctic Expedition 1937-9". The two photos of the ship are have some small creases. One image has a person's faced excised. The Horlicks wrapper measures 13 x 3 1/2". browned & spotted. Overall vg -. unknown
1881ref. 1002651881. Cabinet photo. fine. Horizontal albumen cabinet photo on white mount 4 7/8" X7 7/8" image:4 1/8" X6 1/8". Nice group portrait of members of the expedition - Standing from left to right: D. Schneider D. Cross D. Linn S. Long S. Frederick D. Henry S. Connell D. Bender D. Salor S. Bierdersack D. Gardner D. Ellis and D. Ralston - Seated from left to right: S. Brainard D. Keslingbury S. Greeley leader D. Lockwood D. Israil D. Jewell and D. Rice. fine Rare. Portrait of members of the U.S. International Polar Year Scientific Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay Ellesmere Island sponsored by the U.S. Signal Service and other government agencies. After two winters and the failure of relief expeditions in 1882 and 83 Greeley abandoned Fort Conger and moved to Cape Sabine as per his orders. Eighteen men would die that winter including one by suicide and one execution - Pvt. Charles B. Henry Seven survivors were rescued by Schley's relief expedition on the June 22 1883 but Elison would perish before they reached St. John's on July 17. 1881 unknown
1856ref. 69186London. 1856. Parliamentary "Blue Book" on the Search for Franklin A rare Parliamentary paper relating to the lost Franklin expedition. This "blue book" a series of parliamentary reports named for their original blue paper wrappers contains a wealth of information about Franklin's expedition including detailed correspondence on the Second Grinnell Expedition with Kane's report and the Hudson's Bay Company's expedition down the Back River under Anderson and Stewart. Also includes Richard King's proposal to venture down the Back River to Montreal Island; the recovery and subsequent disposal of the Resolute; Collinson's report on Franklin relics; correspondence on the rewards for Franklin searches; and a list of American officers and men entitled to receive the Arctic Medal known today as the Polar Medal and given out by the British government to "all persons of every rank and class who have been engaged in the several Expeditions to the Arctic Regions whether of discovery or search between the years 1818 and 1855". Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 expedition his fourth to the Arctic and third as commander set out in 1845 to search for the fabled Northwest Passage. In September 1846 the expedition's ships became trapped in the ice off of King William Island which would be their final resting place. The crew spent the next year and a half trapped there before attempting to walk south dying along the way in the arctic tundra hundreds of miles from the nearest European settlements. After three years without word the British Admiralty launched a massive search for the missing ships. Spurred by a large reward many expeditions from Britain and the United States set out on the hunt beginning in 1848 and continuing through the next decade. The British Parliament printed occasional reports of the various expeditions and related Arctic subjects during that time. These reports became known as the Arctic "blue books." One of the scarcer Franklin items rarely appearing on the market and with only a handful recorded in OCLC. Folio. Gathered signatures stitched. Soiling and edge wear to outer leaves minor scattered foxing else very good. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 45249. TPL 3659. LANDE S910. unknown
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