Search Results: Authors starting with S from Polar Books

The British Museum, London, 1921. First Edition. Paper. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Journal 1st Edition; viii, 46pp, 4 figures in text. Original green paper wraps. A meticulous study of auroral observations taken from winter quarters at Cape Evans in 1911 and 1912, and from winter quarters at Cape Adare in 1911, with appendix on the natural ionisation in closed metal containers. In his introduction, Wright ascribes Simpson and Raymond Priestley, geologist for the Northern Party, for the efficacy of the arduous undertaking. Sir Charles Seymour Wright(1887-1975), was a Canadian member of Robert Falcon Scott's antarctic 'Terra Nova' expedition. Wright was the member of the search party to find the tent containing the bodies of Scott, Edward Wilson, and Henry Robertson Bowers, who perished on their return trek from the South Pole. Slightly grubby covers, becoming detached, small pieces missing from corners, contents clean, Ex Libris bookplate on half title. Very Good. Size: Large Book -… Read More

The British Museum, London, 1921. First Edition. Paper. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Journal 1st Edition; iii, 106pp, 4 plates. Franklin Institute Library label tipped onto fep. Original green paper wraps. A thorough and scholarly study of gravity, featuring foremost Antarctic work executed from the expedition's headquarters at Cape Evans, begins with a summary of pendulum observations, outlining apparatus features, procedures followed, formulae and corrections. Observations were performed in Germany's Potsdam 1910 and 1913, New Zealand's Christchurch 1910 and 1913, Wellington 1913, Melbourne 1913, and at Ross Island Winter Quarters (Cape Evans) in 1911 and 1912. An intricate study with dated observations, detailed tables and diagrams throughout. Sir Charles Seymour Wright(1887-1975), was a Canadian member of Robert Falcon Scott's antarctic 'Terra Nova' expedition. Wright was the member of the search party to find the tent containing the bodies of Scott, Edward Wilson, and… Read More

Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1927. Cloth. Very Good. 1st Edition: xvii, (2), 229pp, (2) [8 publishers advertisements], illustrated, 47 b/w photographs on plates, plus one page of drawings, Polar maps on front end-papers. Blue cloth covers, block titling to front cover and gilt titling to spine, no dustjacket. Vivid (and well illustrated) descriptions of whaling in the 1920s, in both the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Spence 812. A personal narrative of whaling in the Arctic and Antarctic along with the history of the industry. Shelfware, top and bottom of spine softening. Previous owners signature and date (in pencil) on fly sheet. Some mild foxing, spotting to page edges, 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: 2609. .

Yankee & Little Brown, USA, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. 1st Edition: 380 pages, illustrated throughout. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Reference; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3545. . This book weighs over 1Kg and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

National Science Foundation, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st edition; vii, 349pp. Prepared at the Library of Congress and Sponsored by the Office of Antarctic Programs. Important Antarctic bibliographic reference, 13 subject headings, author, subject, geographic and grantee indices. Blue cloth with gilt titling to front cover and spine. Ex Libris with library number on spine, stamps on fep, title page, forward page, verso rear cover and page edges, otherwise clean. Very Good, Ex Libris. 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: 1566. .

Oxford, At the Theatre,, . First Edition. . Fair/No Dust Jacket. THE HISTORY OF LAPLAND WHEREIN ARE SHEWED THE ORIGINAL MANNERS, HABITS, MARRIAGES, CONJURATIONS, &C. OF THAT PEOPLE 1st 1674 English Edition; (first published in Latin in Uppsala in 1670), woodcut title vignette, 25 woodcut illustrations in the text, 147 pages, adverts. Bound together with Sandys Travels, Containing an History of the Original and Present State of the Turkish Empire1673, The Seventh Edition with a folding map part of Africa. Title page, [ii], folding map, (torn and repaired, taped) 240pages. Contemporary owners inscription of 1830 on front board and top of title page. Boards, maps and some pages mended with a thick brown paper. Damp staining throughout, tops of some pages worn away, damaged but contents all still readable and clear. Hardly surprising considering the age. .Scheffer (1621-1679), Swedish philologist and archaeologist, was appointed professor at Uppsala University in 1647 where he undertook… Read More

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1956. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st UK Edition; xiv, 331pp, illustrated, 12 b/w photographs, map on front end papers. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling to spine, no dustjacket. In June of 1954 the author, her husband and a friend, all of them amateur ornithologists, together with five scientists, set off on a six weeks scientific expedition to Bylot Island, (Nunavut), sponsored by the New york Zoological Society and the Arctic Institute of North America. This book is a record of that expedition. Shelfware, tiny splits to top of spine, contents clean. Very Good. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Birds; Arctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2814. .

Harper & Brothers Publishers,, London, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition 2 volume set: xiv, 716 pages, illustrated, With over three hundred photographic studies taken by the author across the two volumes. Shelf wear, crease to Volume 1 spine, split to volume 2 spine, previous owners signature front end papers, contents clean. (from the introduction) Schillings was one of the first sportsmen of repute "to stand up before a snobbish public and proclaim that the best sport for a man of cultivated mind is the snapshotting with the camera, rather than the pumping of lead into elephants, rhinoceroses, antelopes, zebras, and many other harmless, beautiful, or rare beasts and birds" This is a fine and early text and survey of the fauna of the African continent. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; Wildlife; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already… Read More

Oxford University Press, 1971. Second Edition. Cloth. Reading Copy. 2nd Edition; 323pp, illustrated, 6 maps, 7 tables and graphs. Blue/green cloth covers with with titling in unclipped dustjacket. Damp damaged. Reading copy. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2929. .

David and Charles Reprints, 1969. 1969 David Charles reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Good. David & Charles Reprint Edition; Facsimile of the 1820 edition with a new introduction by Professor Sir Alistair Hardy FRS. Vol I xx,551 pages,82plates. Vol II viii,574 pages, 22 plates. Illustrated with engraved fold-out frontispieces in each volume. Folding map and engraving in volume 2. Blue cloth covers with blue spine label and gilt titling in unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Shelf ware, covers slight dust marks. Books appear unread. "Nineteenth century classic on whaling, geography and natural history of northern waters." Appendices include meteorological tables; a chronological list of voyages, 861-1819; list of plants found in Spitsbergen; Acts of Parliament regarding whaling; dimensions of whaling ships. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Arctic &… Read More

Archibald Constable & Co, Edinburgh, 1820. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; 2 Volumes,Vol I: 551pp, 82pp appendix, folding frontispiece, maps/charts (2 folding). Vol II: 558pp, 1 folding map,3 tables 2 folding, 22 plates, (4 folding). Ex Libri; Library leather bindings, library numbers to front pastedowns - both volumes are disbound. VOLUME I LACKS TITLE PAGE whilst VOLUME II LACKS FRONTISPIECE, The folding map is at the end of the plates, (The plates start at plate II but I believe the map was located originally as plate I), even though the collation of the plate numbers seems to suggest a plate is missing, looking at the David & Charles reprint ALL the plates are present). Foxing to both volumes, some spotting, age marks, back of map grubby but overall in Good condition. Both volumes require rebinding "Nineteenth century classic on whaling, geography and natural history of northern waters." Appendices include meteorological… Read More

John Murray, London, 1905. Early Edition. Cloth. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1 Volume Edition, 2nd impression, December 1929; xxiii, 720 pages, 16 photos including frontispiece, map end papers. Original covers, shelf wear, spine and cover edges sunned, slight tanning to end papers, spotting to page edges and prelims. Very neat unobtrusive previous owners signature to top of map on front end paper and verso front end paper, contents clean. Provides a detailed and fascinating account of Antarctic exploration in the early twentieth century. Starting with a history of early discoveries in the region, he goes on to record the difficulties of organising such an expedition and the challenges and dangers involved in the exploration of such a wild and untamed continent. Scott's account reflects the sense of wonder and amazement that he felt on discovering the strange and exotic fauna of the region, the problems caused by the unpredictable and often harsh weather, the comradeship of the men forced… Read More

Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1913. Fourth Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 4th Edition; Vol 1, xxvi, 636 pages. Similar collation, edges and formatting, with changes of 2nd edition, addition of 3 pages to appendix of volume I, an additional map at page 110 and table of distances in volume I expanded, no tipped in slip, some new authorship attributions in Vol 2 (with changes made accordingly in contents, extending preliminaries by 2 pages. Vol 2, xvii, 534 pages, 84 plates including photogravure frontispiece plus 7 folding maps and 8 sketches in text. Original covers, top edges gilt. Shelf wear, covers slightly stained, some foxing, contents clean. Considered by Rosove & Spence to be the best with typographical errors and mistakes of the earlier editions corrected. Vol. I. Journals of Captain Scott. Vol.2. Reports of the Journeys & the Scientific Work by Dr.Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition arranged by Leonard Huxley, Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham.… Read More

John Murray, London, 1952. 6th Edition or Higher. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Reading Copy/Fair. 10th impression, pocket sized highly abridged 1 volume edition: 188 pages, illustrated, 22 b/w photos, map end papers. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Contents: Preface, Names of Officers and Men, Scott's early days and naval career, Through Stormy Seas, In the Pack, Land, Settling In, At Discovery Hut, Home impressions, The work and the workers, In winter quarters: Modern Style, To Midwinter Day, The last weeks at Cape Evans, Southern Journey: The Barrier Stage, On the Beardmore Glaciers, The Summit journey to the pole, The return from the pole, the Last March and The finding of the dead, Glosssary, Questions. (The questions page is not present and looks like it was never there in this volume as page 188 now states the printers details. Damp damage to covers and dust jacket, large piece of dust jacket missing, splitting to front hinge, minor wrinkling to pages. Sunday School… Read More

Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1905. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition, 2nd impression (one month after the first). Similar binding,formatting, collation to the 1st Edition. Volume 1: xx 556 pages, 93 plate leaves [inc photogravure frontispiece from a drawing by Dr.E.A. Wilson, 7 color from watercolor paintings by Wilson, 1 double-page with 2 panoramas, and 84 single-page with 105 photographs and 14 illustrations by Wilson], 16 illustrations in the text [15 by Wilson], and 3 maps [1 double-page, 1 folding in rear pocket]. Volume 2: xii, 508 pages, 93 plate leaves [including photogravure frontispiece from a photograph, 6 colour from watercolor paintings by Wilson, 4 double-page, 8 panoramas (4 from drawings by Wilson), 82 single-page with 120 photographs and 4 illustrations by Wilson], plus 2 maps, [1 folding in rear pocket]. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Some foxing, more prominent at beginning and end of volumes. Original blue cloth covers with gilt medallions stamped… Read More

Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1953. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 1st Edition; x, 172pp, illustrated, 15 pages b/w plates, 2 drawings. Blue cloth covers, in unclipped dustjacket. The author was a member of Gino Watkins' 1930 British Arctic Air Route Expedition and Courtauld's solo camp. A diary of the people with the author who with others spent time at the far north of Greenland on the ice cap at a weather station. Fascinating account of people and conditions. Dustjacket stained, Shelfware, covers sunned, contents clean. Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Arctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2794. .

Chatto & Windus, London, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; Introduction, 100 b/w photographs. Original blue cloth covers with black titling, no dustjacket. Shelfware, covers sunned, previous owners bookplate dated 1939 to fep. Contents clean. Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Photography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2805. .

Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1935. Cloth. Good. October 1935 Edition (1st edition, 2nd reprint) xviii, 317 pages. illustrated, coloured frontispiece, 28 b/w plates, 7 maps. Original cloth covers, no dust jacket. Shelf wear, covers slightly grubby. Front end paper ,missing, Southampton 14.12.74 on verso frontispiece, some minor spotting to page edges, newspaper cutting (Obituary of Author laid in) contents clean. Biography of the polar explorer and hero with a tribute from Stanley Baldwin. The life of Henry "Gino" Watkins, who died in 1932 at the age of 25 on his 4th Arctic expedition, to Greenland. 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: 2803. .

Chatto & Windus, London, 1935. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Fair. 1st Edition. xii, 100 pages of photographs. Blue cloth covers with blue titling to front and spine, small tear to bottom of spine, dust jacket partly attached to front cover at some time, blue price clipped dustjacket with tipped on b/w phtotgraph of Endurance in ice, dustjacket dirty with 2 date stamps (19 Sep 1940). Contents clean. A collection 100 polar photographs by various people including Frank Hurley, F Spencer Chapman, Martin Lindsay, H I Cozens, P Lemon, A Stephenson, J M Scott, Gino Watkins, A Courtauld,Herbert Ponting. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Photography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 893. .

Country Life Limited, 1951. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; 254pp, illustrated, coloured frontispiece, b/w plates, drawings in text, maps, map end papers. Original green cloth covers with gilt geese decoration to front cover and titling to spine, no dustjacket. The Perry River lies in the North-West territories of Canada includes references,eskimos,list of birds seen. "among the world's waterfowl - the ducks, geese and swans - there are several species which have become so greatly reduced in numbers that they face early extinction unless steps are taken at once to avert it. Much more needs to be discovered about the birds themselves before we know where, when and how best to take those steps. The beautiful little Ross's geese, whose nesting colonies were found for the first time in 1938, are among those which are threatened, for their world population is probably no more than 5,000, possibly much less. It was for this specific reason that the Perry River… Read More