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1936réf. 066463Tokyo: Hokuseido Press 1936. Full cloth binding with decorative fan illustration on front. Prior ownership markings to prelims and to rear flyleaf. 253pp. Jacket is good only rubbed and chipped along edges offered now in a new mylar cover. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6" - 8" Tall. Hokuseido Press Hardcover
1929réf. 065405New 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
1935réf. 064976New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1935. 5th printing New and Enlarged Edition which has a new final chapter. Square and unmarked with residue on front flyleaf from a bookplate removal. We've laid in another bookplate that can mostly cover this. Full blue cloth binding. 406pp. Photos. Dust jacket is moderately worn along edges with small chips toned spine. Now in a new mylar cover. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall. Dodd, Mead & Company Hardcover
1934réf. 061260Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1934. 1st printing. Lacking dj. Signed by Miller on title page. Also inscribed on half title page and signed there by Janet Miller and Marion Rose to whom the book was dedicated. A tight square copy in full cloth binding. Map endpapers. 299pp. Signed. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Houghton Mifflin Company Hardcover
1856réf. 059903New York: Harper & Brothers 1856. Original blind-stamped cloth binding just rubbed through at corners and spine ends. Darkly toned endpapers. Light scattered foxing inside. ix 445pp. with four pages of publisher adverts. 12 illustrations. March Charles W. Charles Wainwright 1815-1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6" - 8" Tall. Harper & Brothers Hardcover
1965réf. 057598Cambridge University Press / Hakluyt Society 1965. Large books: NO international orders. 2 Volume Set. Unmarked books showing some light reader's use and handling. Lacking dust jackets. Full blue cloth bindings. 975pp. Fold-out map. A Photo-Lithographic Facsimile with an Introduction By David Beers Quinn and Raleigh Ashlin Skelton and with a New Index By Alison Quinn. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall. Cambridge University Press / Hakluyt Society Hardcover
1836réf. 19113Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1836. Volume II only. Purple cloth heavily sunned along spine and outer margins. Paper label intact on spine though somewhat scuffed. Corners bumped and rubbed. No ownership or any other markings. Scattered foxing throughout. Sound binding. 239pp. The author's 1828 travelogue of Switzerland. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Carey, Lea & Blanchard Hardcover
réf. 50306For the lot of approximately 250 items $6000. a Correspondence with various government officials hunting guides and others involved with preparing and carrying out the trip including14 letters to Furlong typed and autograph one accompanied by four photographs of members of the expedition with trophies; five retained copies of letters from Furlong to the correspondents four telegrams seven typed and manuscript recapitulations of various aspects of the trip e.g. titles for the "Dance of the Nandi" film and a three page typed press release on the expedition dated Nairobi 27 March 1930 accompanied by a photograph of Furlong and two bearers with a leopard he has killed. b Two hunting licenses issued by the Uganda Protectorate to Furlong 22 April 1930 one "For a First Elephant" the other a "Visitor's Full Game License." c Three maps period road map of Kenya and Uganda published by Bullows and Roy for the Royal East Africa Automobile Assn.; Map Showing Cairo-Mombasa Route published by the Sudan Survey Dept Khartoum 1929; and a period National Geographic Society map of Africa. d An account book narrow 12mo 19 pp. 22 March - 8 June 1930 and approximately 125 receipts most partly printed for a wide range of services and material necessary for the trip. e 21 photographs in addition to those mentioned above many picturing Furlong in the field with his rifle and trophies some with Furlong's notations on verso and 34 unused photo postcards featuring tribesmen animals and scenery of East Africa. f 42 promotional pamphlets ca. 1925-1934 for the various parts of Africa along Furlong's route 36 of which are unrecorded on OCLC. The pamphlets were issued by African railway companies and governmental agencies outfitters e.g. Thomas Cook and "Safari Africa Limited" London ship lines and other travel agencies and taxidermy concerns. g A wooden carved string instrument from the Para Mountains in present day Tanzania with Furlong's ownership label "Col. Wellington Furlong / c/o Safariland Ltd. / Musical Instrument / Para Mountains" still attached; the instrument is shaped like a hollowed-out bread tray 27 x 7 1/2 inches three holes in the shape of crosses in the bottom six strings stretched across the opening. Furlong 1874-1967; American explorer army officer author artist and photographer embarked on this big game expedition in 1930 partly as an effort to recover relics of Sir Henry M Stanley in East and Central Africa. Gateway to the Sahara New York 1909 is among several books he published. A member of the Explorers Club he was the first American to explore the interior of Tierra del Fuego 1907-1908. Most of his personal papers are held by the Stefansson Collection at Dartmouth. unknown
1908réf. ZB657436London: The Royal Society 1908. first edition; folio leaves slightly shorter than 30.5 cm. v 1 192 pp. 21 plates with one folding and including six plates of aurora observations in muted grey blue and brown also a double page color map of Laurie Island; hardcover ex library spine worn hinges reinforced with tape else text clean & binding tight; five articles viz. Tidal Observations in the Antarctic Regions 1902-1903 Pendulum observations Earthquakes and other Earth Movements recorded in the Antarctic Regions 1902-1903 Antarctic Observations of Aurora 1902-1903 and Antarctic Magnetic Observations 1902-1904. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. London: The Royal Society, hardcover
1840réf. ZB592269Washington 1840. 34 pp self wrappers very good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Washington unknown
1852réf. ZB409601Washington: Hamilton printer 1852. 7 pp issued as 32d Congress 1st Session HED 19; extraction roughness at spine now in self wrappers; the surviving American members of the failed Lopez expedition against Cuba have been pardoned and released; their actions were unauthorized but Secretary of State Daniel Webster thinks something should be done to relieve their forlorn and deplorable condition. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Washington: Hamilton, printer, unknown
1923réf. 039835London: Edward Arnold & Co 1923 4to. original red cloth gilt uncut slightly rubbed & marked trifling sunning to spine a few spots mainly to outer leaves & edges endpapers a little offset else clean & bright; lacks dustwrapper; pp. xii last blank 340 last pubs. advt. with 36 plates 2 folding maps. Heavy item 1.65 kg additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy. Neate B196: Bruce led this second Everest expedition. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket. Edward Arnold & Co hardcover
2003réf. 004175Potts Point NSW Australia: Hordern House 2003. Hardcover. As New/as new. 4to. xv 1168 pp. Bound in full olive cloth title in gilt on cover and spine three ribbon bookmarks in illustrated dust jacket. Includes bibliography and index. This is the first volume in a five-volume work. As New in As New dust jacket. Hordern House hardcover
1995réf. 146811Bundaberg: Corkwood Press 1995. Hardcover. Near fine. Bundaberg Corkwood Press 1995 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 cloth portfolio. Cloth; one corner tip slightly bumped; a near-fine set. Number 52 of only 300 sets the first 30 of which were bound in half leather. 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. McLaren 16969 the original edition - not noting the very large map. 2 items. Corkwood Press hardcover
1996réf. 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
1995réf. 146579Bundaberg: 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
1994réf. 146592Bundaberg: 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. 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
1935réf. 145162Cambridge: 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
1971réf. 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
1996réf. 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
1911réf. 56574San Francisco: Published By The Academy 1911. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good Paper Labels Taped To Spine Minor Wear At Cover Edges Vol. I I Has Thermoplast tape Repair To Cover Edges And Tan Cloth Wrap To Spine. Sm Quarto. Nineteen B & W Photo And Illustration Plates with One a Map Of The Galapagos Islands Tables. 10.0 7.25 1.25 Collected Specimens Are Now At The Grey Herbarium Harvard University Published By The Academy paperback
1865réf. 36624Smithsonian Institution 1865. Volume 15 Article 5. Paperback. Binding Copy Ex. Library Clean Tape Repairs To Last Two Pages. Quarto. Tables Plates And Woodcuts. Smithsonian Institution paperback
1828réf. 55033London John Murray Albamarle Street 1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Solid Copies Some Uniform Darkening At Spine Area Of All Volumes Label At Volume I I Has An Indentation Hole Some Pages Unopened Vol. V Has Pp.329 and 330 Bound In Twice. 24mo Five Volumes Blue Publisher Cloth Paper Label At Spine. Volume I I I Has Folding Map Labeled General Chart Showing The Discoveries of The Three Perry Voyages Ten Tissue Guarded Plates For All Volumes Images Include Parry The Ships And Eskimo Life. Provenance - These Five Volumes Are from the SItwell Family Library At Weston HALL U. K. THEIR FAMILY SEAT FOR 300 YEARS. THE BOOKs ARRIVED AT WESTON HALL DURING THE TIME OF HARRIET WRIGHTSON 1788-1864 AND COL. HENRY HELY- HUTCHInSON who was the nephew of General Lord Hutchinson later 2nd Earl of Donoughmore London, John Murray, Albamarle Street hardcover
1943réf. 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
réf. 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