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Museum Press Limited, 1945. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Fair. 1st Edition: 202 pages, illustrated, 27 b/w photographs, end paper maps. Green cloth covers with gilt titling top spine in price clipped dust jacket. Shelfware. Dust jacket tatty, pieces missing. Contents clean. The author's memoirs of life in Alaska working with the Inuit in the early 20th century, wartime quality paper; a nice solid copy. Good This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; 1900-1920; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2960. .
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ESKIMOLAND SPEAKS: The Land of Midnight Sunlight and Nocturnal Noon
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ESKIMOLAND SPEAKS: The Land of Midnight Sunlight and Nocturnal Noon
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Museum Press Limited, 1945. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Photocopied DJ. 1st Edition: 202pp, illustrated, 27 b/w photographs, end paper maps. Green cloth covers with gilt titling top spine. The author's memoirs of life in Alaska working with the Inuit in the early 20th century, wartime quality paper, small tear to top of page 17 and split on half title page. Shelfware. Photocopied dustjacket. Good Reading Copy. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; 1920s; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2958. .
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THE ZOOLOGY OF ICELAND. Volumes I,II,III & IV Various Parts (50 in total)
by Various, (Fridriksson, A. & S.L. Tuxen (Managing Editiors)
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Ejnar Munksgaard, 1937. Wrappers. Very Good. 1st Edition: Cream coloured wrappers as issued. Volume I - Parts 4,6 & 11; Volume II - Parts 2, 5a,5b,6,7,8,9,10,20a,21,22 &23; Volume III - Parts 24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,47,58; Volume IV - Parts 59,60,61,62,62,63,64,65,66b,67,70,71,72,76. From the back of the parts this appears to be a nearly complete set of the issued numbers. Numerous text-figures, illustrations, tables, charts, and maps (some folding). Original wrappers. Most titles are on marine & freshwater invertebrates, the benthonic animal communitites of coastal waters, Hot Springs and their communities aswell as a paper on mammalia including the sppendix on the field mouse. Authors include H. Thomsen, R. Sparck, S. Tuxen, A. Norvang, M. Burton, P.L. Kramp, O. Carlgren, O. Steinbock, M. de Ridder, E. Wesenberg-Lund, K. Stephensen, and others. Some wrinkling to some pages, many pages uncut. Very Good. PLEASE NOTE: This book will incur…
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VENTURE TO THE ARCTIC
by Various, Editied by Hamilton, R.A
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Penguin Books, Pelican Books, 1958. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Mass Market Paperback, 1st edition thus; 283pages, illustrated, b/w plates, maps, drawings, diagrams in-text, index. Pictorial wrappers, pages age toned as expected. The author, a physicist, went to the Arctic three times as part of scientific expiditons, the last being as Chief Scientist of the British North Greenland Expidition, 1952 - 1954. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2305. .
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THE POLAR RECORD: Journal of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration and Research Vol 14,No 88-Jan 1968 to Vol 14,No 93-Sep 1969 (6 copies)
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The Scott Polar Research Institute, 1968. First Edition. Paper. Good. 1st Edition; Original wrappers. All magazines are still intact, shelfware, some covers slightly grubby. Contents clean. Very Good Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; 1960s; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3011. .
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ICE: NEWS BULLETIN OF THE BRITISH GLACIOLOGICAL SOCIETY: 37 Issues, Complete set from 1958 to1971
by Various, Richardson, Mrs. H (editor)
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British Glaciological Society, 1958. Wrappers. Good. Separate issues of the journal beginning with Issue No. 1 of January 1958 through to Issue No.37 of December 1971. illustrated with maps and illustrations. Original wrappers.Good Condition. 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: 3075. . This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
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THE POLAR RECORD: Journal of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration and Research Vol 13,No 82-Jan 1966 to Vol 13,No 87-Sep 1967 (6 copies)
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The Scott Polar Research Institute, 1966. First Edition. Paper. Good. 1st Edition; Original wrappers. All magazines are still intact, shelfware, some covers grubby, odd ink annotation to covers. Contents clean. Good Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; 1960s; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3010. .
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ARCTIC: Journal of Arctic Institute of North America Volume 19,No 1 March 1966 to Volume 31, No 3 September 1978 - 51 Issues
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Arctic Institute of North America, 1972. First Edition. Wrappers. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; Original wrappers. Shelfware, covers grubby, contents clean. Good. 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: 3083. . This book is extra heavy or expensive, and as such may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
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Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society: Vol XVIII, Nos. 10-12 Oct. - December, 1902
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Manchester Geographical Society, 1902. First Edition. Wrappers. Very Good. 1st Edition; Brown wrappers as issued, (1 advertisement),vii, pp153-244pp, illustrated, bw photographs. Contents Include: H. Guillaume - The Peruvian Amazonian Basin .....; W.G. Black - Rainfall in 1901; J.R. Newby - The 1902 Summer in Iceland; William Green's Map of Manchester and Salford; The Manchester Geographical Society was one of the most important provincial geographical societies in Britain, in its heyday rivalling even the Royal Geographical Society of London. The Society was founded in 1884, stimulated by the commercial opportunities being created by the `opening up' of Africa. It has organised a lecture series throughout its history with many eminent explorers, scientists and philanthropists of the day. Its Journal began publication in 1885. The first issue included an article by H M Stanley. It ceased publication in 1960. Some staining and chipping to covers, contents clean. Very Good.…
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Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society: Vol XXXVII-XXXVIII Parts I-IV, 1921-22
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Manchester Geographical Society, 1922. First Edition. Wrappers. Very Good. 1st Edition; Green wrappers as issued, vii, (1), 280pp, (1 advertisement), illustrated, bw plates, maps; Contents Include: Rev. J. Gordon Hayes - Did Peary Reach the Pole?; Arnold Williams - Growth of the British Empire; H.H. Bowdon - Czecho-Slovakia; Kate Qualtrough - Atlantis and the Ancients; W.H. Barker - The Gold Coast Colony; The Manchester Geographical Society was one of the most important provincial geographical societies in Britain, in its heyday rivalling even the Royal Geographical Society of London. The Society was founded in 1884, stimulated by the commercial opportunities being created by the `opening up' of Africa. It has organised a lecture series throughout its history with many eminent explorers, scientists and philanthropists of the day. Its Journal began publication in 1885. The first issue included an article by H M Stanley. It ceased publication in 1960. Small piece missing from bottom…
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THE POLAR RECORD: Journal of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration and Research Vol 16,No 100 Jan 1972 to Vol 16,No 105-Sep 1973 (6 copies)
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The Scott Polar Research Institute, 1972. First Edition. Paper. Good. 1st Edition; Original wrappers. All magazines are still intact, shelfware, some covers slightly grubby. Contents clean. Very Good Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; 1970s; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3079. .
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THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL, VOL LXXXIII No 4, April 1934
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Royal Geographical Society, 1934. First Edition. paper. Good. 1st Edition; [viii advertisements], 257pp-352pp + 2 folding maps, [ix-x advertisements]. Illustrated b/w photographs,text figures, maps. Original printed blue paper covers. This issue contents include:- Northern Rhodesia-Belgian Congo Boundary (Lieut.-Col. E.R.L. Peake), In Search of Zerzura (Lieut. Orde Wingate), Saxton's Survey of Northern England (Gordon Manley), The First Sighting of Australia by the English (Ida Lee), Moving Swamps in Ceylon (W.G.Adam), The Carte du Monde au Millionieme (Col. Sir Charles Close). Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Geography & Maps; Antarctic; 1930s; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2575. .
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ICELAND PAPERS Volume I SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF CAMBRIDGE EXPEDITIONS TO ICELAND, 1932-38
by Various - Roberts, Brian (Editor)
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Oxford University Press, 1939. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 1st Edition thus: A collection of 17 papers from varous members of the expeditions, with folding maps and illustrations, many from photographs. Six of the papers are on birds. Green cloth covers with gilt titling to spine. Previous owners signature G.C.L. Bertram on fep. 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: 2731. .
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THE POLAR RECORD: Journal of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration and Research Vol 12,No 76-Jan 1964 to Vol 12,No 81-Sep 1965 (6 copies)
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The Scott Polar Research Institute, 1964. First Edition. Paper. Good. 1st Edition; Original wrappers. All magazines are still intact, shelfware, some covers grubby, creased, with odd small tear to spine. Contents clean. Good Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; 1960s; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3009. .
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THE POLAR RECORD: Journal of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration and Research Vol 15,No 94-Jan 1970 to Vol 15,No 99-Sep 1971 (6 copies)
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The Scott Polar Research Institute, 1970. First Edition. Paper. Good. 1st Edition; Original wrappers. All magazines are still intact, shelfware, some covers slightly grubby. Contents clean. Good Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; 1970s; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3012. .
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THE POLAR RECORD: Journal of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration and Research Vol 17,No 106 Jan 1974 to Vol 16,No 111-Sep 1975 (6 copies)
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The Scott Polar Research Institute, 1975. First Edition. Paper. Good. 1st Edition; Original wrappers. All magazines are still intact, shelfware, some covers slightly grubby. Contents clean. Very Good Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; 1970s; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3080. .
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CURRENT BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE ALASKAN ARCTIC: Biological Sciences Volume XI
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Stanford University Press, 1953. First Edition. wrappers. Good/No Dust Jacket. 55pp, maps. Blue card wrappers as issued. Contents Inclued: The Organization and Facilities of the Arctic Research Laboratory; Some aspects of Limnology of an Arctic Lake; Some Observations on Arctic Crustaceans and their associates: Notes on the fauna of Nuwuk Pond, Point Barrow; Some characteristics of the fish populations in an Arctic Alaskan Lake; On the geographical distribution of Arctic Bryophytes; Some aspects of the ecology of the Barrow Ground Squirrel, Citellus parryi barrowensis. Ex SPRI library, SPRI stamp to front cover otherwise contents clean. Good Ex Libris. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; 1950s; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2979. .
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THE POLAR RECORD: Journal of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration and Research Vol 19,No 118 -Jan 1978 to Vol 19,No 122-May 1979 (5 copies)
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The Scott Polar Research Institute, 1978. First Edition. Paper. Good. 1st Edition; Original wrappers. All magazines are still intact, shelfware, some creasing to spines, odd cover. Contents clean. Good Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; 1970s; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3014. .
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Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society: Vol XLIII, 1927
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Manchester Geographical Society, 1927. First Edition. Wrappers. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; Pale green wrappers as issued, vii 144pp, illustrated, bw line drawings, maps; Contents Include: Ogden, H.W. - The Geographical Basis of the Lancashire Cotton Industry; Barker, W.H. - Towns of South-East Lancashire; King, H. - The Agricultural Geography of Lancastria; Fitzgerald, W. - The Ribble Basin; The Manchester Geographical Society was one of the most important provincial geographical societies in Britain, in its heyday rivalling even the Royal Geographical Society of London. The Society was founded in 1884, stimulated by the commercial opportunities being created by the `opening up' of Africa. It has organised a lecture series throughout its history with many eminent explorers, scientists and philanthropists of the day. Its Journal began publication in 1885. The first issue included an article by H M Stanley. It ceased publication in 1960. Some staining to covers, contents…
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Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society: Vol XVI, Nos. 4-6 April-June 1900
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Manchester Geographical Society, 1900. First Edition. Wrappers. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; Pale blue brown wrappers as issued, [2 advertisements], pp69-148,[2 advertisements], illustrated, bw line drawings, photographs, map; Contents Include: Mr E.W. Mellor - The Harz Mountains, with Brunswick and Hildenshiem; Mr. E. Cowan - Across the Lapland Alps; Mr. J.R. Newby - Iceland and the Icelanders; The Manchester Geographical Society was one of the most important provincial geographical societies in Britain, in its heyday rivalling even the Royal Geographical Society of London. The Society was founded in 1884, stimulated by the commercial opportunities being created by the `opening up' of Africa. It has organised a lecture series throughout its history with many eminent explorers, scientists and philanthropists of the day. Its Journal began publication in 1885. The first issue included an article by H M Stanley. It ceased publication in 1960. Some staining to covers, contents…
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