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MACQUARIE ISLAND - J.S. Cumpston, Antarctic Division, Australia, 1st edn 1968. - Scarce especially with VG+ dustjacket Still the definitive book on this World Heritage sub-Antarctic Island. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND - SAVAGE LANDOR Henry SAVAGE LANDOR, 1st single volume edition - Heinemann, London, 1899, VG+ fold-out colour map, numerous plates and superb paintings by Savage Landor - a lovely copy with a richly decorated cover with gilt titles - An Account of a Journey in Tibet. Capture by the Tibetan Authorities; Imprisonment, Torture and Ultimate Release - THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

TIBET & NEPAL - Henry Savage Landor - A&C Black, London, 1st edn., 1905, original highly decorated boards, with gilt titles and designs - richly illustrated volume with dozens of Landor's superb highly colourful paintings (each with tissue guards) depicting his journeys in Tibet and Nepal - a really lovely piece of work, very slightly worn spine ends and corners THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE VOYAGE OF THE DISCOVERY, Robert Scott, single volume edition, 1953, with Preface by Fridtjof Nansen, John Murray, London, B&W Plates, minor foxing, Good scarce jacket - Scott's 1901-04 British National Expedition to Ross Island and attempt of the Geographic South Pole. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

SNOW STRUCTURE AND SKI FIELDS - Being an Account of Snow and Ice Forms Met in Nature and a Study on Avalanches and Snowcraft. With an Appendix on Alpine Weather by C.K.M. Douglas B.A. - G Seligman, Macmillan, London, 1936 1st edn., 550 pages Good hardback in original blue cloth, some wear to edges, facsimile jacket, richly illustrated with B&W plates - the original 'bible' for anyone working in avalanche/ski field work, Scarce.
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COLLECTED VERSE OF ROBERT SERVICE, 2 volumes, Ernest Benn, London, 1960, 700 & 480 page VG+ hardbacks,in original maroon and blue cloth, no jackets, gilt titles, about as nice a set as you'll ever find...all the classic Service poems of the Yukon and wild north are there. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

SOUTH, - The Story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 expedition, Sir Ernest Shackleton, William Heinemann, London, 1st edn 1919,3rd imp March 1920.Four months after the first edition, pages with some browning as is common.Previous owner's name on prelims Original blue cloth unfaded and silver titles and front board decoration of Endurance crisp. All Hurley plates complete, binding sl worn. South is an important polar book that came to define the end of an era of Antarctic exploration.
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THE WILDERNESS OF DENALI - Charles SHELDON, 1960, originally published 1930, Charles Scribner's, New York, VG+ 412 page hardback, VG jacket, slight browning Explorations of a hunter-naturalist in Alaska - a famous book - excellent descriptions of natural history of many species - THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

NEPAL HIMALAYA - Shiro Shirahata, 1st edn., 1983, Outsize hardback in original slipcase, full page colour plates, map, photographer's notes...VG+ - an outstanding piece of photographic work, years in the making - an ideal present for a Nepal buff.
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THE ANTARCTIC TODAY - A mid century survey by the New Zealand Antarctic Society - Edited by Frank Simpson, Large 388 page hardback with VG+ dustjacket, AH & AW Reed in conjunction with NZ Antarctic Society, Wellington, 1952, large fold-out Antarctic regions map in rear pocket, - 18 essays by scientists & historians such as Cumpston, Dell, Odell, Fleming, Falla, Law & Quartermain a cornerstone book for any New Zealand polar library. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

CLIMBING IN THE DOLOMITES - Leone SINIGAGLIA, T Fisher Unwin, 1896 1st UK edition, fold-out colour map, B&W plates and drawings, 223 page VG+ hardback with original grey-blue cloth and decoration, gilt titles, a VG+ copy of a scarce early work on this famous Italian mountain range - THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

ANTARCTIC RESEARCH, Sir Raymond Priestley, Ray Adie, Gordon De Q Robin, Butterworths, London, 1964, 360 page VG+ hardback in original blue cloth, silver titles, in slip case, Profusely illustrated, maps, charts, etc of British Scientific Research in Antarctica - A most comprehensive piece of work up to 1963. - polar travel, sledge, dogs, biology, survey work, glaciology auroral studies, seals and sealing, whaling, polar ships etc THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

CAMP SIX - AN ACCOUNT OF THE 1933 MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION, Frank Smythe, 1st Edn: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1937, original blue cloth with pin hole and signature on fep otherwise VG+, very scarce original jacket. Considered Smythe's best book and certainly the most 'readable' account of the 1933 British expedition, the 4th to attempt the North ridge - led by Hugh Ruttledge with Eric Shipton on the team. Scarce in this edition. $440 THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

CLIMBS AND SKI RUNS, Frank Smythe, Blackwood, London, 1931, 1st edn., original pale blue cloth, facsimile of rare jacket, previous owner's names fep overall VG, minor foxing to page edges, excellent B&W plates, Mountaineering and skiing in The Alps, Great Britain and Corsica. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

EDWARD WHYMPER - Frank Smythe, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1st edn., 1940, original red boards (no fading) , gilt titles, rare dustjacket (foxed) with piece missing lower spine, Internally VG+ with previous owner's name on fep., lovely B&W plates - Together with Camp Six, Edward Whymper is the rarest of Smythe's many books - the definitive early biography of a remarkable climber, expedition traveller and artist who made the first ascents of Chimborazo, Cayambe, Antisana, Carihuairazo, Sara Urco, Cotocachi & Sincholagua. Whymper was best known for the first ascent of the Matterhorn. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE BIRDS OF BURMA, Bertram Smythies -Oliver & Boyd, London, Second edn., 1953, VG+, original green cloth with chipped but overall VG dustjacket, 650 pages, 100's colour plates plus fold-out map of Burma, previous owner's signature on fep - still the definitive work on the birds of Burma & SE Asia.
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AFTER EVEREST - The experiences of a mountaineer and medical missionary, Howard Somervell, 1936 1st edn., Hodder & Stoughton, London, 339 page hardback in original green cloth with gilt titles, extremely scarce original jacket with a some small pieces missing/spine fade but overall bright, archival tape repair - endpaper map of 1924 attempt on north/Tibet side Chomolungma, frontispiece painting by Somervell with glassine protection, B&W plates throughout with fold-out map of Travancore in Sthn India where Somervell was a medical missionary. Lovely biography covering early war years, Everest 1922 and 1924 expeditions, his music & his superb mountain paintings - Very hard to find in this condition with original jacket THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

LHASA THE HOLY CITY - F Spencer Chapman - Chatto & Windus, London, 1st UK Edn: 1938, Introduction by Sir Charles Bell, original yellow cloth mottled, facsimile of original dustjacket, fold-out map, numerous B&W & colour plates, Some internal foxing but overall a good solid copy of a scarce book - English mountaineer Spencer Chapman joined Charles Bell's delegation to Lhasa overland from Sikkim past Chomolhari (Chapman later made the first ascent)
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PEAKS, PASSES AND GLACIERS - by members of The Alpine Club, Third series, Edited by Field & Spencer, Methuen, London, 1932, original brown cloth, bright gilt titles and decoration, about as fine a copy as you'll find, minor foxing, 300 page hardback, B&W plates - climbs in The European Alps - not common THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

FORESTS OF NEPAL, J.D.A. Stainton, John Murray, London, 2nd imp 1974, (originally published 1972) VG+ 174 page hardback with VG+ jacket, Colour plates throughout, fold out maps in rear, A very detailed botanical description with a great introduction to Nepal.
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