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South with Scott – Admiral Lord Mountevans – First deluxe edition 1961

Publsihed by Collins, London in 1961. Octavo, 284 pages, many illustrations, top edge blue stained blue as required. All in a pretty good condition with a complete dust jacket.

This book by Mountevans had been published earlier … however, this is a first printing 1961 of the new ”de-luxe” edition with better photographic images from Ponting’s originals and some specially drawn maps on a foldout pasted at the back.

Nice solid book on Scott in the Antarctic.

$25.00

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Polar Castaways – The Ross Sea Party – McElrea and Harrowfield – First Edition 2004

Published by Canterbury University Press, a quality production, first edition 2004. Octavo, 315 pages, well illustrated and in very good if not fine condition.

A through account of the Shackleton 1914 expedition Ross Sea Party.

The Aurora escaped its winter moorings and left the men stranded yet they still went about their task laying depot’s for Shackleton’s attempt at the first right across. Three of the ten men died and it took perennial Captain J.K. Davis to rescue them

First time Ross Sea Party fully explained

$35.00

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Scott of the Antarctic – The Journals of Captain R.F. Scott’s Last Polar Expedition.

The Last Journals of Scott, the 1910 British Antarctic Expedition, here published by Konecky.

Large octavo, 521 pages, endpaper maps. Very good condition in a complete and clean dust jacket. A very solid respectable book.

Nicely illustrated and an economic alternative to the valuable original edition.

Scott’s Last it’s all here …

$25.00

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Icebound in Antarctica – David Lewis and Mimi George

Published by Heinemann in Australia a first edition 1987. Octavo, 242 pages with many great colour photographs by Mimi George. Very good like new condition.

In 1982 David Lewis and his partner Mimi George and four others sailed to the Antarctic in the “Dick Smith Explorer” … it got tricky and they got well and truly stuck

Ice everywhere

$30.00

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Beyond Cape Horn – Charles Neider

Published by Sierra, San Francisco in 1980. First edition, octavo, 387 pages with enpaper maps and nice illustrations, mainly coloured photographic images. A little ageing to the dust jacket, overall very clean inside.

In the summer of 1977 Charles Neider made his third trip south of Cape Horn to the Antarctic visiting Ross Island, McMudo sound, Wright and Victoria valleys etc. Also the author intermingles Magellan and Drake and their passages around the Horn and Cook and others who sailed so close and Scoot and Amundsen and the tragedy and success.

Well beyond Cape Horn

$30.00

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Polar Item – Scott Centenary (1912 – 2012) – Christie’s Sale

One of the collectable Christies/ Bonham Polar Sale Catalogues.

Christies Travel, Science and Natural History Catalogue with a special emphasis on the Antarctic and the Scott Expeditions. Quarto, 60 pages illustrated to the expected impeccable standard.

Some exceptional travel items catalogued with a good Australian and Pacific content. Includes forty pages of unique Antarctic items that will make any enthusiast salivate.

Our favourites … Mawson’s specimen boxes, Shackleton’s sledge harness, letters from Apsley Cherry-Garrard to his mother (“I sleep under Bowers. It is going to be a very warm hut and we live very well here”), Ponting’s best photographs and Scott’s marching compass. Well we like it all really. We all missed the boat on this one!

Unique Polar items and other travel delicacies

$60.00

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