Antarctica. Great Stories from the Frozen Continent
Sydney, Reader's Digest, 1985. More
Sydney, Reader's Digest, 1985. More
Adelaide, F.W. Preece & Sons (and printed at the Hassell Press), 1930. Not least, pp 25-26, The Home of the Blizzard by Sir Douglas Mawson, and the rear cover advertising the 1930 abridged popular edition. More
Adelaide, Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers, September 2019. A selection of 37 items, some rare and important, others unusual or curious, but at all times interesting, and with the guaranteed provenance of Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas Mawson and his father-in-law, Guillaume Daniel Delprat, General Manager of BHP. Highlights include a seventeenth-century..... More
Washington, Government Printing Office, 1899. 'Rec'd from Lt. Jarvis / Jan. 19, 1900. / W W Smithers' is pencilled onto the front flyleaf. First Lieutenant D.H. Jarvis was the commander of the overland relief expedition; his very detailed report occupies 76 pages of this volume. More
This print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley photographs; this was a slightly enlarged version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The full title of the Australian exhibition catalogue is 'Exhibition of Unique Photographic Pictures taken during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Also other..... More
[USA, Byrd Aviation Associates, 1930?]. Offered together with a companion booklet by Byrd, 'Into the Home of the Blizzard' (1928; octavo, [32] pages), with the recipient's name and the copy number (X-204) written in ink (but not by Byrd) on the presentation page. The cover of the booklet is a...... More
London, HMSO, 1887. Offered together with four other volumes of reports from this most important research expedition, namely 'Summary of Scientific Results' (Parts 1 and 2, 1895), and 'Zoology', Volumes 28 and 32 (1888 and 1889). These four volumes are also large quarto, uncut and unopened in the original dark..... More
London, Ashgate for Hakluyt Society, 2007. Hakluyt Society Series 3, Number 18. More
Sydney, ABC Books, 1991/ 1991. Presentation copy inscribed, dated (29 November 1991) and signed by the author to Lady Mary Downer. More
Canberra, National Library of Australia, 2005. More
New York, Portland House, 1989. More
London, George Allen and Unwin, 1951. More
Evans was second officer of the 'Morning', the ship sent out by the Royal Geographical Society in 1904 to the relief of Scott's first Antarctic expedition. In 1909 he was selected by Scott himself as second-in-command of his second expedition and captain of the 'Terra Nova'. He accompanied Scott in..... More
North Sydney, William Heinemann, 2011. More
London, Profile Books, 1985. Inscribed and signed by the author. More
Canberra, Tabletop Press, 1987. More
New York, Harper, 1899 [first American edition]. The account of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition, led by Jackson and equipped and sponsored by Harmsworth 'to make a thorough scientific exploration of the newly-discovered Franz-Josef Land, only some part of its southern shores being then known, and the hope being reasonably entertained that..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1957 (second edition, with 'an entirely new set of illustrations')/ 1947. The author was Assistant Biologist to the Expedition. More
London, Stanford Maritime, 1979. With the ownership signature and details of maritime enthusiast Peter McBride. Colin Archer (1832-1921), 'the great naval architect and boatbuilder who ... designed the most seaworthy boats and vessels the world had seen', including the ''Fram', which brought the Norwegian explorers Nansen and later Amundsen on..... More
Sydney, ABC/ William Collins, 1979. More
1988. Hakluyt Society Second Series, Numbers 169 and 170. Signed Crocker copy. More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1990. More
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2006. More
Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 2006. More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of S.A. in association with the Friends of Mawson at the S.A. Museum, 2010/ 1913. The pages of the Adelie Blizzard are reproduced, complete with editorial annotations, at their original size. One of only 450 copies thus. Preface by Emma McEwin. Introduction by Elizabeth..... More