Search Results: Authors starting with J from Polar Books

Bluntisham Books/The Erskine Press, UK, 2007. Hardcover (Original Cloth). As New/No Dust Jacket. 2007 Bluntisham Books Reprint of the 1919 first edition, xxxiii, 183 pages, illustrated, b/w photos, maps, folding map at rear. Original covers, as new, Appears unread. Davis was captain of "Aurora," on Mawson's first Antarctic expedition, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14 and was chief officer on the "Nimrod" with Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09. The popular official account of the Australasian expedition was by Mawson, "The Home of the Blizzard". In Mawson's preface to this volume, he says Davis' book details the voyages of the ship, a gap not covered in his account. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN/EAN: 9781852970963. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3419. . 9781852970963

Polaris Publications, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st inaugural Limited Edition, limited to 500 copies the first 200 being are numbered and initialled by the Editor. This is #162SCJ. Contents clean. Scientific papers, translations, book reprints, indices, oral histories, literature and poetry, articles about native peoples, reprints, books and reviews, obituaries, notes and correspondence. A fascinating collection. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3394. .

Harper & Brothers, London, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: Vol I xxi, 551 pages, Vol II xxii-xv, 580 pages. Appendices, indices. Illustrated throughout with over one hundred eighty black & white drawings, plates, 5 maps. Hardcovers, rebacked very nicely. Shelf wear, corners bumped, some minor foxing, mainly to prelims. NOTE: All maps have been removed and PHOTOCOPIES laid in. Previous owners inscriptions on prelims otherwise contents clean. A day-by-day journal of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition (1894-97). The party established winter quarters at Cape Flora, Franz Joseph Land, and remained there for 3 years. By sheer coincidence, Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen encountered Jackson's camp in June of 1896 during the Fram Expedition, and enjoyed several weeks of generous hospitality (after surviving through the winter on walrus and bear meat). Throughout their stay, the party made sledge journeys in the archipelago, surveyed, made… Read More

Harper & Brothers, London, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: Vol I xxi, 551 pages, Vol II xxii-xv, 580 pages. Appendices, indices. Illustrated throughout with over one hundred eighty black & white drawings, plates, 5 maps. Matched set. Original covers, top edges gilt. Shelf wear, corners bumped, chipping to spines, some small splits to spines, some foxing, repaired tears to 2 of the 5 folding maps, all maps fragile, staining to creases as expected. An original set, now very difficult to find with the original bindings. A day-by-day journal of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition (1894-97). The party established winter quarters at Cape Flora, Franz Joseph Land, and remained there for 3 years. By sheer coincidence, Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen encountered Jackson's camp in June of 1896 during the Fram Expedition, and enjoyed several weeks of generous hospitality (after surviving through the winter on walrus and bear meat).… Read More

Constable & Company Ltd.,, London, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: xiv, 242 pages, illustrated. Previous owners signature to front end paper (M V Mosley), contents clean. Shelf wear. This guide is a collection of the two hundred climbs in Snowdonia and beyond. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Climbing; Exploration. ISBN: 0094561400. ISBN/EAN: 9780094561403. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3483. . 9780094561403

Harper & Brothers, 1951. Cloth. . 1st Edition: x [I], 243pp, illustrated. Illustrations by Francis Lee Jaques. Black paper covered boards with green cloth spine,black titling to spine, no dustjacket. Beautifully illustrated with striking b/w drawings. Story of the author's trip with her husband up the west coast by rail and on up to Alaska by paddle steamer via Texas. Previous owners stamp on fep, shelfware, slight bumping, contents clean. No dustjacket but dj flaps laid in. Very Good Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2355. .

Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd, London, 2005. Second Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 2nd reprint; 240 pages, 98 Colour photographs. Appears unread. Comprehensive field guide to the birds of Chile, includes the Antarctic Peninsula, The Falkland Islands and South Georgia. Featuring concise, identification-focused text positioned opposite the colour plates to allow quick and easy reference, this guide also includes detailed distribution maps for every species of bird found in the spectacular and tourist-friendly country of Chile. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Birds; Animals & Birds. ISBN: 0713646888. ISBN/EAN: 9780713646887. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 750. . 9780713646887

Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri,, 1914. wrappers. Good. Extract from Rapports et proces-Verbaux, Vol. LXXII, 1931 for the Conseil Permanent International pour L'Exploration De La Mer. ENGLISH text,SIGNED: 41 pages, illustrated with maps and graphs. Original Card Wrappers: Gift inscription by Adolph Jensen to front cover. Ex SPRI Library, library stamps and cancelled stamps to front cover and title page, no other markings, contents clean. Covers grubby, shelfware. Good reading copy. Front cover signed by one of the authors Adolf Severin Jensen thanking S Freuchen for his help . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Fishing & Hunting. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3059. .

The Erskine Press, UK, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. As New/No Dust Jacket. 1st UK Edition: 72 pages, illustrated b/w photos, drawings. From 1899 to 1995 "Husky Power" was invaluable and without them I am certain exploration of the hostile environment would have been a lot slower, they are still missed today.. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Dogs; Exploration. ISBN/EAN: 9781852971267. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3650. . 9781852971267

American Philosophical Society, 1961. Cloth. Very Good. 1st Edition: 214pp, illustrated, 77 illustrations, 2 maps on end papers (1 folding). Illustrated cloth covers in similarly illustrated dudtjacket. Shelfware to dustjacket. Contents clean. Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2700. .

American Geographical Society, New York, 1930. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition with one colour map (Physical Map of The Arctic) 50 pages, illustrated, 8 b/w maps/charts in text, grey stapled wraps. MISSING the Bathymetric map. Ex Libri. Library bookplate to front end paper and poorly removed loaning sheet on rear end paper. Closed repaired tears to map which is wrinkled but very readable. Full Title: BRIEF HISTORY OF POLAR EXPLORATION SINCE THE INTRODUCTION OF FLYING to accompany A Physical Map of the Arctic and A Bathymetric Map of Antarctica Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; 1920s; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3284. .

American Geographical Society, New York, 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; 71 pages, 14 figures, scale maps in colour showing sledge trips, routes, etc. Original wrappers, contents clean. This is the first USA edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 104. .

American Geographical Society, 1928. Cloth. Good. 1st Edition; iv,479pp, illustrated, figures, maps (1 folding coloured). 30 papers on the Arctic and Antarctic. Authors include Fridtjof Nansen and Sir Douglas Mawson. Grey cloth with black and gilt titling on front and spine. Covers faded and stained, grubby, small nick in spine, contents clean. Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1779. .

Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, 1899. Cloth. Very Good. 1st Edition: viii, 351pp, [8pp publishers advertisements], illustrated, green monotone plates (including frontispiece portrait), b/w white illustrations in text, brown eps. Original green cloth with gilt titling and vignette of wolf on front cover, gilt titling, decoration on spine. AB 8185. Johansen was a member of Nansen's FRAM expedition - "so eager to take part in the expedition, as no other post could be found for him, he accepted that of stoker" - and his companion on the famous journey over the ice towards the north pole and then to Franz Josef Land. Johansen's account is considerablly scarcer than Nansen's best selling FARTHEST NORTH. Decorative presentation bookplate on front pastedown dated 1901, front cover slightly soiled, shelfware, bumping, contents clean. Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed… Read More

J. Nourse, Bookseller to His Majesty, 1773. First Edition. Calf. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; viii, 254 pages, 3 folding engraved maps (incl. frontispiece), 12 folding engraved plates. numerous tables, (11 folding), leaf of directions to the binder. All edges gilt. Original full marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges. Top of spine softening and small parts missing. Text block tight. Official account written by Captain Phipps, later Lord Mulgrave. The expedition of the Racehorse and Carcass, undertaken for the purpose of discovering a route to India through the northern polar regions, was blocked by pack ice of Spitsbergen. The valuable appendix gives geographical and meteorological observations, zoological and botanical records, accounts of the distillation of fresh water from the sea, and astronomical observations. The voyage is perhaps best remembered for the presence of young Horatio Nelson, as midshipsman… Read More

J. Nourse, Bookseller to His Majesty, 1773. First Edition. Calf. Fair/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; viii, 254 pages. MISSING 13 of the 14 illustrations found on leaf of directions to the binder have been removed. Previous owners signature (Edward Hamilton) on title page. Front cover detached, text block tight. Official account written by Captain Phipps, later Lord Mulgrave. The expedition of the Racehorse and Carcass, undertaken for the purpose of discovering a route to India through the northern polar regions, was blocked by pack ice of Spitsbergen. The valuable appendix gives geographical and meteorological observations, zoological and botanical records, accounts of the distillation of fresh water from the sea, and astronomical observations. The voyage is perhaps best remembered for the presence of young Horatio Nelson, as midshipman aboard the Carcass, and his encounter with a polar bear' (Hill 1351). Phipps's narrative of his voyage was of considerable scientific interest and was the… Read More

A.W. Webster, London, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good/No Dust Jacket. NARRATIVE OF A SECOND VOYAGE IN SEARCH OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. Including the Reports of Commander, now Captain James Clark Ross and The Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole. 1st Edition. xxxiii, (1), 740pp, illustrated with 31 plates, including 6 maps and charts, some outlined in colour and 2 folding, 24 views, some hand coloured. Appendix: xii, 120pp, cxliv, ciii. Half cream leather with dark brown leather boards, spine ruled with black leather spine labels, titled in gilt. After the embarrassment of Ross's first voyage in which he claimed to see the mountains in Lancaster Sound, it took him a decade to source private backing (he had lost the confidence of the British Admiralty) for a second trip. Ross travelled through Lancaster Sound into Prince Regent inlet and onto Boothia Peninsula, while on the way… Read More

Armada, Fontana paperbacks, 1970. Later Edition. Paperback. Good/No Dust Jacket. Paperback Edition: 158 pages, (2pages publishers advertisments). Originally published in 1949 as Biggles Breaks The Silence. Age toning to pages as expected, crease to front cover, contents clean. "I don't mind reasonable risks, but I draw the line at suicide on the off chance of gold, which may or may not be there and I don't think you quite realise what sort of place the Antarctic is' So says Biggles, but he can't resist the challenge. Biggles is prepared for the treacherous climate and the shifting floes but he hadn't expected to run into a band of crooks who would stop at nothing in their hunt for the gold." Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Fiction. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2531. .

Private, Hwya Jones, UK, 2006. First Edition. Softcover (Saddle-stapled). New Book/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; Softcover. Private printing, 56 pages, illustrated with b/w photographs. Illustrated cover. From the introduction: "Dogs were at Halley Bay, the most southerly British Antarctic Survey Base, for just 15 years. They are now banned from the Continent, perhaps forever. The finest form of safe ice travel ever devised had evolved to a perfection of teamwork that will never re-occur. Quite unlike the lightweight racing huskies of the North; Halley dogs were bred strong with big shoulders and amazing strength to pull thousand pound loads long distances over all surfaces." This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3613. .

Museum Press, 1957. Cloth. Good/Poor. 1st Edition: 160pp, illustrated, 15 b/w plates, map. Original purple cloth with gilt titling to spine in unclipped dustjacket. Shelfware, covers slightly faded, contents clean, dustjacket tatty with pieces missing. Good/Dustjacket poor. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2371. .