Antarctica. Great Stories from the Frozen Continent
Sydney, Reader's Digest, 1985. More
Polar Exploration
Desiderata. A Guide to Good Books. Number 6, 1st November 1930
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
Mawson | Delprat. A Selling Exhibition of Rare Antarctic Photographs, Expeditionary Artefacts, Antique Furniture, Curios and Personal Effects from the Collections of Sir Douglas Mawson and G.D. Delprat. 16-27 September 2019, 196 North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia
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
The South Pole. An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram", 1910-1912
London, C. Hurst and Company, 1996 (reprint)/ 1976 [facsimile]/ 1912. More
Report of the Cruise of the US Revenue Cutter 'Bear' and the Overland Expedition for the Relief of the Whalers in the Arctic Ocean, from November 27, 1897, to September 13, 1898
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
'Antarctic Petrels on the Nest, Cape Hunter'
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
Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd .. and the Executive Committee of the Byrd Aviation Associates express to [recipient's name, Edward Dapp, in ink] their enduring appreciation in the equipping of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. It is our privilege to attest, and we gratefully acknowledge, that without such assistance the accomplishment of the Expedition in the Antarctic would not have been possible ..
[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
Report of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of HMS 'Challenger' during the years 1873-76 under the command of Captain George S. Nares .. and the late Captain Frank Tourle Thomson. Zoology. Volume XXII: Report on the Deep-Sea Fishes collected by HMS 'Challenger' during the years 1873-1876. By Albert Gunther
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
Four Travel Journals. The Americas, Antarctica and Africa, 1775-1874
London, Ashgate for Hakluyt Society, 2007. Hakluyt Society Series 3, Number 18. More
Antarctica and back in Sixty Days
Sydney, ABC Books, 1991/ 1991. Presentation copy inscribed, dated (29 November 1991) and signed by the author to Lady Mary Downer. More
T.W. Edgeworth David. A Life. Geologist, Adventurer, Soldier and 'Knight in the Old Brown Hat'
Canberra, National Library of Australia, 2005. More
The Arctic World
New York, Portland House, 1989. More
The Antarctic Problem. An Historical and Political Study
London, George Allen and Unwin, 1951. More
The Ferocious Summer. Palmer's penguins and the warming of Antarctica
London, Profile Books, 1985. Inscribed and signed by the author. More
Kiandra to Kosciusko
Canberra, Tabletop Press, 1987. More
A Thousand Days in the Arctic
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
South with Mawson. Reminiscences of the Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1957 (second edition, with 'an entirely new set of illustrations')/ 1947. The author was Assistant Biologist to the Expedition. More
Colin Archer and the Seaworthy Double-Ender
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
Voyage to the Ice. The Antarctic Expedition of Solo
Sydney, ABC/ William Collins, 1979. More
The Journal of Rochfort Maguire, 1852-1854. Two Years at Point Barrow, Alaska, aboard HMS 'Plover' in the Search for Sir John Franklin. Edited by John Bockstoce
1988. Hakluyt Society Second Series, Numbers 169 and 170. Signed Crocker copy. More
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Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds. Volume 1 [in two books]: Ratites to Ducks. Part A: Ratites to Petrels. Part B: Australian Pelican to Ducks
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1990. More
Oomingmak. The Expedition to Musk Ox Island in the Bering Sea
New York, Hastings House, 1967. 'The Nunivak Expedition captured a large group of musk ox calves ... a magnificent piece of work on Arctic life: the Eskimos, the tundra ... and the sheer excitement of chasing the musk ox'. More
South by Northwest. The Magnetic Crusade and the Contest for Antarctica
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2006. More
South by Northwest. The Magnetic Crusade and the Contest for Antarctica
Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 2006. More
The Adelie Blizzard. Mawson's Forgotten Newspaper 1913
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