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BEADNELL, H. J. Llewellyn. An Egyptian Oasis... London. John Murray, 1909. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 248pp. With a photographic frontispiece, a further 27 photographic plates, and four maps. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Endpapers browned, scattered foxing. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 24969
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FRANCK, Richard. Northern memoirs, calculated for the meridian of Scotland; to which is added, the contemplative and practical angler. Writ in the year 1658... Edinburgh. Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1821. New edition. 8vo. [4], 10, l, [2], 379pp. With a final page of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, recently expertly rebacked and recornered to style. Boards rubbed and marked, corners bumped. Marbled endpapers, near contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 24796
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BANNISTER, J. T.. A survey of the holy land; its geography, history, and destiny. Designed to elucidate the imagery of scripture, and demonstrate the fulfilment of prophecy. Bath. Binns and Goodwin, [s.d., c. 1845] 8vo. xiv, 575pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved vignette to title page, and a further 19 engraved plates (several folding). Contemporary gilt-tooled green calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G. Extremities rubbed and a trifle marked. Bookplate of Sylvanus Fox to FEP, plates and title page foxed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 24891
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JOHNSTONE, Walter. A series of letters, descriptive of prince edward island, in the gulph of st. laurence, addressed to the rev. john wightman, minister of kirkmahoe, dumfries-shire. Dumfries. Printed for the Author, by J. Swan, 1822. First edition. 72pp.

[And:] [34 further early nineteenth-century ecclesiastical and devotional tracts].

12mo. Near contemporary green cloth. Extremities lightly marked. Pastedowns sprung, upper board held by two cords only, single leaf detached, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 17387
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BROUWER, H. A. [editor]. Practical hints to scientific travellers. The Hague. Martinus Nijhoff, 1925-26 The first volume is the revised second edition, all others are first editions. 12mo. Four volumes of six only. Numerous illustrations, maps, and charts throughout. Original publisher's grey cloth, black-blocked lettering-pieces. Without glassine dustwrappers. Light rubbing, some slight spotting/marking. Book-labels of Sir Philip L. Brocklehurst to all FEPs. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 23746
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NANSEN, Fridtjof. Vers le pole traduit et abrege par charles rabot. 200 illustrations d'apres photographies et les dessins de l'explorateur. Paris. Ernest Flammarion, Editeur, [1897]. 8vo. viii, 424pp. With original white printed paper wrappers bound in. Finely bound in a twentieth-century designer binding; embossed and onlaid morocco designs to each board, the upper depicting a ship on frozen waters, two huskies, knotted rope and the title 'Vers le Pole', and the lower with two leaves on a stem with a sunset over the waters in the background, each board inset within ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 24672
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AMUNDSEN, Roald. Die Nordwest-Passage... München [i.e. Munich]. Albert Langen, 1908. First edition in German. 8vo. [14], 544pp. With a photographic frontispiece, numerous photographic illustrations in the text, and three maps (two folding). Original publisher's pictorial cloth. Extremities rubbed. Hinges exposed, else internally clean and crisp. From the library of Eric Kenneth Prentice 'Kenn' Back (b. 1942), meteorologist with the British Antarctic Survey from 1963 to 2002, and a descendant of Arctic explorer George Back, with his bookplate to FEP. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 23755
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HANSSEN, Helmer. Gjennem isbaksen: atten år med Roald Amundsen. Oslo. Forlagt av H. Aschehoug & Co., 1941. Attende tusen [i.e. eighteenth thousand]. 8vo. 218pp, [4]. With seven photographic plates. Original publisher's blue cloth-backed tan buckram boards, lettered in silver. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. From the library of Eric Kenneth Prentice 'Kenn' Back (b. 1942), meteorologist with the British Antarctic Survey from 1963 to 2002, and a descendant of Arctic explorer George Back, with his bookplate to FEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23451
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[EXPLORATION]. Arctic voyages; being an account of discoveries in the north polar seas, in 1818, 1819, & 1820. With an account of the esquimaux people. Compiled from the most Authentic Sources. London. Printed for C. J. G. & F. Rivington, 1831. iv, [1], 6-172pp. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved vignette to title page, and two further engraved plates.

[Together with:] Voyages in the arctic seas, from 1821 to 1825, for the discovery of a north-west passage to the pacific ocean. London. Printed for C. J. G. & F. Rivington, 1831. [4], iv, [1], 6-163pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved vignette to title page, ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 16837
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STRABO. Strabonis rerum geographicarum libri XVII. Lipsiae [i.e. Leipzig]. Sumtibus et Typis Car. Tauchnitii, 1829. 12mo. In three volumes. [2], 407, [1]; [2], 467, [1]; [2], 503pp, [1]. Contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed and discoloured, chipping to lettering-pieces. Recent bookplates of R. J. Dickinson to endpapers of all volumes, leaves browned and spotted, very occasional ink-spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24739
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DE SUZE, Jos. A.. The columbian geography, an elementary text-book for the use of schools and young people compiled on a readable and interesting plan: comprising a brief and up-to-date description, physical, political, and commercial, of the countries of the world and of the principal islands of the west indies. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Mole, Brothers, 1897. First edition. 8vo. ix, [1], 246pp. Handsome contemporary gilt-tooled black morocco presentation binding, 'Presented to His Excellency Sir Hubert E. H. Jerningham, K.C.M.G. by the Author' lettered in gilt to upper board. Lightly rubbed and bumped. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 23506
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KEYMER, Ronald. Across the Sahara. [Khartoum]. [McCorquodale & Co.], [s.d, c. 1955-65] Oblong quarto. [24]pp. With six illustrations from photographs in the text, and a sketch map of Northern Africa. Stapled, as issued, in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Extremities browned, sunned, and a trifle marked, staple rusted. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24526
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SHACKLETON, Ernest, Sir. Mon Expedition au Sud Polaire 1914-1917. Tours. Maison Alfred Mame et Fils, [1924]. First edition in French. Quarto. 380pp, [2]. With numerous black and white illustrations from photographs in the text, and two maps (one folding). Original publisher's pictorial green cloth, A.E.G. Worn, lower hinge exposed, text-block separating from binding - held by front pastedown only, lightly rubbed and sunned. From the library of Eric Kenneth Prentice 'Kenn' Back (b. 1942), meteorologist with the British Antarctic Survey from 1963 to 2002, and a ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23452
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HEPWORTH, Geo. H.. Through Armenia on horseback. New York. E. P. Dutton & Comapny, 1898. First edition. 8vo. xii, 355pp, [1]. With a portrait frontispiece and 24 plates from photographs, and a folding coloured map. Original publisher's navy cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt.A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 23423
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DRYGALSKI, Erich von. Zum Kontinent des eisigen Sudens... Berlin. Druck und Verlag von Georg Reimer, 1904. First edition. 8vo. xiv, [2], 668pp. With 21 plates and maps and 400 illustrations in the text. Original publisher's pictorial grey cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Booksellers tickets pasted to FEP, very occasional light spotting. From the library of Eric Kenneth Prentice 'Kenn' Back (b. 1942), meteorologist with the British Antarctic Survey from 1963 to 2002, and a descendant of Arctic explorer George Back, with his bookplate ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 23447
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SVERDRUP, Otto. Nyt land: fire aar I arktiske egne. Kristiania [i.e. Oslo]. Forlagt af H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), 1903. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xii, 505, [1]; x, [2], 523pp, [3]. Numerous photographic plates and illustrations in the text, nine maps. Original publisher's pictorial navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Decorated endpapers, early inked ownership inscriptions to both FFEPs and titles. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23446
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NANSEN, Fridtjof. "Farthest North" Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram. Westminster [London]. Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xiii, [3], 510pp, [2]; xiii, [3], 671pp, [1]. Etched frontispiece to Vol. I, photogravure frontispiece to Vol. II, 127 plates of which 16 in colour, 92 illustrations to the text, four folding colour maps. Title pages printed in red and black. Untrimmed in original publisher's blue-green vertical-ribbed cloth, spines lettered in gilt, titles and pictorial block of the Fram gilt to front ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 21605
Photo of "Armenia and the near east"
NANSEN, Fridtjof. Armenia and the near east. London. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1928]. First edition in English. 8vo. 324pp. With 16 plates after photographs and a folding map. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Very occasional spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23424