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Antarctica & Arctic History

128602
LOVERING, J. F; PRESCOTT, J. R. V.: Last Of Lands ... Antarctica.
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xii, 212; 14 photographs, 38 maps and figures (mainly maps), 6 tables, references, 2 appendices, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, very good copy.
Carlton; Melbourne University Press; 1979. Click here to Order

AUD$30

128637
ROSS, SIR JOHN.: Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of North-West Passage and of a Residence in The Artic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833: Including the Reports of Commander, now Captain James Clark Ross and The Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole. [ With ] Appendix to the Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage.
First Editions; Roy. 4to; Vol. I. pp. [x], xxxi, [1], 740 (with the added leaf 688-699); Vol. II. pp. xii,120, cxliv, cii, [1] errata; engraved frontispieces in each volume, in total 50 engraved and lithographed plates, charts, and plans (9 hand-coloured in volume one and 12 hand-coloured in volume two, one large folding coloured map at rear of volume I.) both uniformly bound in publishers original blue patterned cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, loosely inserted binders advertisement, bindings are worn and damaged, hinges starting to split, some light spotting, fair set only would reward rebinding.
London; A. W. Webster, 156, Regent Street; 1835. Click here to Order

AUD$1250