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Antarctica & Arctic History

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BYRD, RICHARD EVELYN.: Little America : Aerial Exploration In the Antarctic & The Flight To The South Pole.
Author's Autograph Edition; Royal 8vo; pp. xvi, 436; portrait frontispiece, 55 pages of plates (69 illustrations in all of which 44 are full-page), 17 text vignettes, 4 maps (2 folding at rear), appendix, index, bound in original half parchment over blue papered boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, uncut, Author's Autographed Edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies, signed by the author and publisher; very good copy.
New York; G. P. Putnam's Sons; 1930.
iSence 227. The title is taken from the name of Byrd's base on the Ross Ice Shelf from where his scientific expeditions by dog-sled, snowmobile and aeroplane were taken. On the 28th November 1929 the first flight to the South pole and back was completed. Click here to Order

AUD$950

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WILSON, DAVID M.: The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott. Unseen Photographs from the Legendary Antarctic Expedition.
First UK Edition; Demy 4to; pp. 192; endpapers, illustrated title page, maps, profusely illustrated in b/w throughout, notes, acknowledgements, illustrated catalogue, bound in original papered boards, dustjacket, fine copy.
London; Little, Brown and Company; 2011. Click here to Order

AUD$35