Antarctica. Great Stories from the Frozen Continent
Sydney, Reader's Digest, 1985. More
Polar Exploration
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
A vintage photograph of the 'Inter-University Football. Adelaide v. Melbourne. Played on Melbourne Cricket Ground 1907. Adelaide Team'
Melbourne, The Sears Studio, 1907. The Adelaide University Football Club was formed in 1906. 'During the three years 1908-1910, the Club existed in name only and, except for the annual match against Melbourne University, did not compete at all. This put the Club at a disadvantage in these matches as..... 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
'A Dreamy Venice in Seal-land'
This photograph is reproduced in 'The Home of the Blizzard' (Volume 1, page 102), with the caption 'Adelie Land. Weddell seals asleep on pancake ice'. Several pages earlier, Mawson writes: 'Seals and penguins on magic gondolas were the silent denizens of this dreamy Venice. In the soft glamour of the..... More
'The Nugget Penguin Rookery'
A striking view showing two unidentified expeditioners among the royal penguins at the colony on Nuggets Beach, Macquarie Island. This vintage print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley photographs; this was a slightly larger version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The label..... More
![Item #134254 'A Snow Cornice' [with Xavier Mertz]. Australasian Antarctic Expedition, Frank HURLEY](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/134254_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690163975)
'A Snow Cornice' [with Xavier Mertz]
Significantly, this dramatic image of an expeditioner on skis, silhouetted against gigantic ice cliffs, features Xavier Mertz, one of the two men to lose their lives on the expedition. This photograph is reproduced in 'The Home of the Blizzard' with the caption 'Adelie Land. The cliffs at Land's End, Cape..... More
![Item #122914 'A Terminal Moraine [At the wasting face of the great ice-sheet at Cape Denison]'....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/122914.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1627267844)
'A Terminal Moraine [At the wasting face of the great ice-sheet at Cape Denison]'
This print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley photographs; this was a slightly larger version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The label of the Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London is on the verso of this print, with the full title..... More
'A Wave Worn Stretch of Icy Coast'
This print comes from the original 1915 London exhibition of Hurley photographs. The label of the Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London is on the verso of this print, with the title (as above) and the London catalogue reference number 102 in ink. Provenance: Sir Douglas Mawson; purchased from..... More
Four Travel Journals. The Americas, Antarctica and Africa, 1775-1874
London, Hakluyt Society, 2007. Hakluyt Society Series 3, Number 18. More
Four Travel Journals. The Americas, Antarctica and Africa, 1775-1874
London, Hakluyt Society, 2007. Hakluyt Society Series 3, Number 18. More
The Arctic World
New York, Portland House, 1989. 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
The Discovery of the South Shetland Islands. The Voyages of the Brig 'Williams', 1819-1820, as recorded in contemporary documents, and the Journal of Midshipman C.W. Poynter
London, Hakluyt Society, 2000. Hakluyt Society Series 3, Volume 4. More
The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic, 1910-1913
London, The Folio Society, 2012 (first thus). An account of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's disastrous final expedition to the South Pole. 'This is the single greatest book in the literature of polar exploration. There are others that are beautiful. There are others that are exciting. There are some that are..... More
Going to Extremes. Project Blizzard and Australia's Antarctic Heritage
Sydney, Doubleday, 1986. Loosely inserted is a printed acknowledgement slip from Project Blizzard (supporting the conservation of Sir Douglas Mawson's Huts). More
Antarctic Geoscience
Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. More
A signed photograph of a portrait in oils of Admiral Edward Evans in full dress uniform
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
The Lichens and Mosses of Mac.Robertston Land
Melbourne, Antarctic Division, Department of External Affairs Australia, 1966. More
Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen
North Sydney, William Heinemann, 2011. More
Kiandra to Kosciusko
Canberra, Tabletop Press, 1987. More
A Thousand Days in the Arctic
New York, Harper & Brothers, 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..... 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
ANARE. Australia's Antarctic Outposts
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1957. With some loosely inserted related ephemera. More