Search Results: Authors starting with P from Polar Books

Chapman and Hall, 1868. Cloth. Good. 1st Edition; ix,[2], 364pp, illustrated, frontispiece, 5 plates, b/w line drawings in text. Antiquarian Society embossed stamp on title page and card label pasted over part of verso front cover,Shelfware, covers worn, pieces missing from spine, contents clean, text block tight. 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: 2666. .

Skeffington & Son Ltd, London, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. 1st Edition: 143 pages, illustrated b/w photos. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Covers grubby, dust jacket worn, nibbled, contents clean. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3512. .

Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, London, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Fair. 1st Edition; 240 pages, illustrated, map, 20 b/w photographs. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Gift inscription dated 1954 verso front cover. Shelf wear, dust jacket tatty, contents clean. Diary of 4 Soviet Marine Biologists on a 9-month expedition to the North Pole in the late 1930s. On May 21st 1937 they were landed by aeroplane near the North Pole. The icefloe they landed on was to be their home for the next nine months as it drifted southwards over a distance of 1324 miles. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2661. .

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. 1st UK Edition; 306 pages, map frontispiece. Orignal covers in unclipped dust jacket. Previous owners signature on front end paper, contents clean. From the dust jacket flap "Michael Parfit....spent a full season in Antarctica, traveled by plane, ice-breaker, and research vessel to known and unknown places". Antarctica is the last uncharted territory....Heaped with the most generous praise upon its American publication, South Light is an outstanding work of travel writing." This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN: 0747501343. ISBN/EAN: 9780747501343. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3618. . 9780747501343

John Murray, London, 1828. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 6 volumes, 1st Edition thus; Vol I, viii,283 pages (printed 1828); Vol II, iv, 270 pages (printed 1828); Vol III, vii,312 pages (printed 1828); Vol IV, vii,295 pages (printed 1828); Vol V, vii, 300 pages (printed in 1831, different binding to previous 4 volumes) Vol VI, xxxv, 211 pages (printed 1829); illustrated, engraved plates, folding map, (page edges uncut, Volumes I-IV) Volumes V original cloth with title labels on spines. Vols 1-4,1828; Vol 5 - 1831; Vol 6, 1829, leather covers with gilt decoration and titling to spine. The first 5 volumes are accounts of Parry's voyages to discover the North West Passage and were initially published separately in four quarto volumes between 1821 and 1826. This set of 5 volumes was printed as a complete edition in 1828 whilst Vol VI "Narrative of an Attempt to reach the North Pole in boats fitted for the purpose, and attached to His Majesty's… Read More

John Murray, London, 1824. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. THREE TITLES BOUND INTO 2 VOLUMES - WILL SELL JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE 1819-20 WITH APPENDIX SEPARATELY FOR £600.00 Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-20, in his Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper. With an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations: The Second Edition: London: John Murray, 1821. xxix, folding chart, 310pp, clxxix appendix, illustrated 20 charts and plates as called for, (Plate XIII as frontispiece rather than facing page 97) Leather covers with paper label to spine. Front cover detached, armorial owners bookplate on verso front cover, price in ink on title page, repair to chart of Baffins bay, this chart has also been poorly folded. Age toning, foxing to pages as expected. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a… Read More

John Murray, 1828. Cloth. Fair. Volume III ONLY - 1st Edition thus; Vol III, vii,312pp, engraved plates frontispiece, folding map. Leather covers with gilt titling to spine. Covers worn, piece from top of spine missing, title page and pages iv-vii loosening, pages age toned, spotting to pages. Fair 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: 2665. .

John Murray, 1828. Cloth. Fair. Volume II ONLY - 1st Edition thus; Vol II, v, 270pp, engraved plates frontispiece, page edges uncut. Covers grubby, worn, piece from top of spine missing,bumped, very worn esp. along edges & spines, Age toning, spotting to pages. Fair 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: 2664. .

J. Susse, Paris, 1948. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. 1st Edition: SIGNED by the author 1948. 202 pages [1], illustrated with b/w photos, maps, sketches, diagrams in text. French Text. Covers grubby, small split to spine. Pages tanned, contents clean. Title translates: CUSTOMS AND TECHNIQUES OF THE WHITE TRAIL. Paul-Emile Victor, 1907 - 1995. French polar explorer, scientist, and ethnologist, founder of French polar expeditions. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Exploration. Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3454. .

Whippoorwill Press, Canada, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 2001 Printing. xix, 20-314 pages, Paperback, illustrated, b/w photos, 2 maps. Account of a young Canadian's experiences in the Antarctic following World War II conducting surveys, explorations and collecting scientific data with the help of Inuit dogs from Labrador and Greenland. Covers slightly bent, contents clean First softcover edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN: 0968167519. ISBN/EAN: 9780968167519. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3587. . 9780968167519

Privately Published by Author, UK, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. New Book/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. 1st Edition: SIGNED by author on title page. Softcover, 303 pages, illustrated throughout. Operation Tabarin was originally conceived as a means by which to safeguard the Falkland Islands from Japanese invasion and to deny harbours in the sub-Antarctic territories to German surface raiders and U-boats, the expedition also sought to re-assert British sovereignty in the face of incursions by neutral Argentina. As well as setting in train a sequence of events that would eventually culminate in the Falklands War, the British bases secretly established in 1944 would go on to play a vital part in the Cold War and lay the foundations for one of the most important and enduring government-sponsored programmes of scientific research in the polar regions: the British Antarctic Survey BAS). A fascinating history by a member of BAS in the 60's who was a marine biologist and scuba diver, working… Read More

R. H. Porter, 1904. Cloth. Good. 1st Edition: xvi,216 pp plus 68 plates and 1 large folding map. Original green cloth covers with gilt tiltling. Top edge gilt. Shelfware, some marks to covers, spine shaken, beginning to loosen. Previous owners signature to front pastedown, missing fep, half title heavily spotted. Pictures of 3 Arctic birds tipped into prelims plus odd neat pencil annotation in margin on odd page of text., some foxing, mainly to prelims and page edges but also affecting pp 45-46 where a newspaper cutting recording of the unfortunate death of Charles Pearson is tipped in in front of a photograph of him. PLEASE NOTE: This book will incur extra postage and insurance charges. Please contact us for a quote. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2695. . This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Hutchinson & Co, 1907. First Edition. Cloth. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st UK Edition: xx, 411pages, illustrated, with 98 illustrations by the author and two folding maps. Original black/brown cloth, gilt vignette of man, sled and dogs to front cover. The account of the second unsuccessful attempt by Peary, in 1906, to reach the North Pole. He was forced to turn back 175 miles from his destination. He passed Ellesmere Land to Cape Sheridan and the Arctic Basin, returning along the coast of Greenland. In this, his second to last expedition he claimed to have reached 87º06', the farthest north any had yet been. Arctic Biblio,13226. Ricks p. 169. Peary made several expeditions attempting to reach the North Pole. In this, his 1906 expedition, he reached latitude 87degrees 06minutes N, about 175 miles from the Pole, the closest to the Pole yet achieved. While ostensibly failures, these expeditions allowed him to test his equipment, dogs and men, honing his skills for what he later… Read More

Hutchinson & Co, 1907. Cloth. Reading Copy. 1st UK Edition: xx, 411pp, illustrated, with 98 illustrations by the author and two folding maps. Original black/brown cloth, gilt vignette of man, sled and dogs to front cover. The account of the second unsuccessful attempt by Peary, in 1906, to reach the North Pole. He was forced to turn back 175 miles from his destination. He passed Ellesmere Land to Cape Sheridan and the Arctic Basin, returning along the coast of Greenland. In this, his second to last expedition he claimed to have reached 87º06', the farthest north any had yet been. Arctic Biblio,13226. Ricks p. 169. Peary made several expeditions attempting to reach the North Pole. In this, his 1906 expedition, he reached latitude 87degrees 06minutes N, about 175 miles from the Pole, the closest to the Pole yet achieved. While ostensibly failures, these expeditions allowed him to test his equipment, dogs and men, honing his skills for what he later (1909) reported to be a successful… Read More

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1910. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st UK Edition; xii, 326 pages, illustrated, 116 illustrations including 4 photogravures, 16 special plates, 1 folding map. Original covers with polar bear to spine and rear cover. Shelf wear, bumped, prelims show ghosting as usual, pages 105/107 has been poorly cut at some stage, contents clean, closed repaired tear to margins of large folding map (not affecting map) neatly repaired with archive tape, this map is now laid in. A nice copy. American explorer Robert Peary's interesting account of his expedition from 1908-1909 to the North Pole, the expedition in which he claimed to have reached the Pole. This was a controversial claim and was widely debated alongside Frederick Cook competing claim. The debate continues to this day, with some thinking that he simply just came within a few miles of the Pole. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Arctic &… Read More

Hodder & Stoughton, 1910. Cloth. Good. SAMPLE MOCK-UP BOOK , a most interesting item; Original covers with proposed spine design on back cover. Comprises frontispiece of North Pole, Title-Page, Introduction, contents, list of Illustrations, 112 fine plates, Foreword (16 pages), Appendix I, II, III, Index. Shelf wear, bumped, edges fraying, all illustrations in good condition. American explorer Robert Peary's interesting account of his expedition from 1908-1909 to the North Pole, the expedition in which he claimed to have reached the Pole. This was a controversial claim and was widely debated alongside Frederick Cook competing claim. The debate continues to this day, with some thinking that he simply just came within a few miles of the Pole. PLEASE NOTE: This book will incur extra postage and insurance charges. Please contact us for a quote. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed… Read More

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st UK Edition; xii, 326 pages, illustrated, 116 illustrations from photographs, 1 photogravure, 3 of the photogravures ares COPIES. Original covers with vignette of polar bear to spine and rear cover. Shelf wear, hinges splitting, spine loosening, covers stained, bumped, foxing, age toning to pages as expected. Frontispiece, plus 2 photogravures and large folding map at end are COPIES. All copies laid in. School library bookplate on verso cover. Sold as a good reading copy. American explorer Robert Peary's interesting account of his expedition from 1908-1909 to the North Pole, the expedition in which he claimed to have reached the Pole. This was a controversial claim and was widely debated alongside Frederick Cook competing claim. The debate continues to this day, with some thinking that he simply just came within a few miles of the Pole. This is the first UK edition. Quantity… Read More

Hodder & Stoughton, 1911. Cloth. Good. 1st French Edition; French Text. 343pages, illustrated, frontispiece, 32 duo tone photographs, 32 monotone photographs,1 folding coloured map. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling. Previous owners pencil signature to front end paper. Shelfware, spine sunned, rips to cloth on back cover. Contents clean, tight and bright. Following earlier attempts, Robert Peary succeeded in reaching the North Pole on 6th April 1909. Immediately after his return, controversy broke out due to Frederick Cook's announcement, just 4 days before Peary's, of his own attainment of the Pole on 23rd September 1908. The North Pole contains no hint of the ensuing - and often acrimonious - debate concerning these competing claims. At the time, Peary came to be regarded as offering the surer claim. Cook's own published account, My Attainment of the Pole, did not appear until 1911 and inevitably appears more 'embattled' than does Peary's relatively straightforward… Read More

Cairo, Government Press, Cairo, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: xi,144 pages. illustrated, 119 maps charts and photographic illustrations including folding coloured maps, many sepia photographs, charts, maps, tables, bibliography : Volume 1 only (of 4, published separately and later), each complete in itself, volume 1 deals in great detail with a general description of the Nile Basin, the meteorology & topography of the White Nile Basin. Covers grubby, spotting to prelims and page edges, some of the larger maps have tears along the folds which have been repaired. Contents clean Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; Geography & Maps. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3583. .

John Murray, London, 1855. Second Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 2nd Subscribers' Edition; xv, 302 pages + 5 page list of subscribers, illustrated 35 lithographed plates (of which one is a coloured geological map). Original covers. Shelf wear, covers faded, bumping to the extremities and fraying to the head and tail of spine. Previous owners signature dated 1855 and newspaper clipping pasted on verso front cover, contents clean. spotting to some pages, mainly prelims and plates. A beautifully illustrated edition of this educational work on the geography of Yorkshire with reference to: natural boundaries and divisions, peculiar plants, the stranding of whales, magnetic elements, and fauna of Yorkshire. John Phillips, an English geologist who published the first global geological time scale based on the correlation of fossils in rock strata, thereby helping to standardize terminology including the term Mesozoic, which he invented. Quantity Available: 1.… Read More