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Gould was second in command of Byrd’s 1929-30 Antarctic Expedition. The account relates to the story of a 1500 mile journey by dog sledge and ski across the Antarctic ice to Queen Maud Mountains. Spence 517, Reynard 604. $40 - $50 155 GRAN, TRYGGUE The Norwegian With Scott. [2 titles] Tryggue Gran’s Antarctic Diary 1910 - 1913. Edited by Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith. 250mm, 258p, illustrated, endpaper maps. Blue boards with gilt titles, DJ, fine. HMSO, National Maritime Museum 1984. 2. Dean Beeby - In a Crystal Land. Canadian Explorers in Antarctica. 235mm, illustrated. Grey cloth, blue titles, dJ, fine. Toronto, University of Toronto Press 1994. $50 156 GREELY, A.W. Borchgrevink and Antarctic Exploration Article pulled from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine January London 1896. Also contains The First Landing on the Antarctic Continent, Being an Account of the Recent Voyage of the Whaler ‘Antarctic’ by C.E. Borchgrevick. 431 - 448p, 8 illustrations. Loosely bound in folder, clean and VG. $50 157 GREELY, A.W. The Polar Regions [2 titles] in the Twentieth Century. 225mm, 223p, frontis, illustrations, large colour fldg map. Maroon cloth with gilt titles, VG. London, George G, Harrap & Company 1929. 2. Griffith Taylor - Antarctic Adventure and Research. 195mm, 245p, [1]p adverts, red cloth with black titles. NY & London, D. Appleton and Co 1930, 2nd issue. $50 - $75 158 GURNEY, ALAN The Race to the White Continent. [6 titles] Voyages to the Antarctic. 240mm, [xii] 320p, illustrations and maps. DJ fine. NY and London, W.W. Norton & Co 2000 2.Below the Convergence. Voyages Towards Antarctica 1699 1839. 240mm, [xii], 315p, illustrations and maps. In DJ, fine. NY and London, W.W. Norton & Co 1997. 3. Ernest S. Dodge - Beyong the Capes. Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger [1776-1877]. 235mm, xv, 429p, illustrated. DJ rubbed at edges and light creases. 4. Giles Hunt - Launcelot Fleming; A Portrait . Canterbury Press 2003, soft covers, VG. 5. Peter Aughton - Voyages that Changed the World. 265mm, 208p, illustrated throughout. Pictorial wrappers, fine. 6. Miriam Estensen - Discovery. The Quest for the Great South Land. ix, 286p, illustrated. DJ, fine copy. London, Conway Maritime Press 1998. $80 - $120 159 HALLOCK, JUDITH LEE Tom Crean, Antarctic Explorer. A Profile [4 titles] A Profile Thomas Crean, Irishman Antarctic Explorer Par excellence, Antarctic Survivor, Winner of the Albert Medal 1877-1938. 300mm, unpaginated, [13] l., frontis portrait, one other plate. fine copy reprinted from the Polar Record No20 [141]: 665-678 [1985], bound in blue cloth boards, gilt titles. Loosely enclosed a letter from the author. Special separate edition. Napier, NZ, New Life Books - modern reprint. Crean served on both of Scott’s expeditions and with Shackleton in the Endurance. This one off copy was specially printed by New Life Books on instruction from P.J. Reaney. 2.David Hirzel - Sailor on Ice: Tom Crean. With Scott in the Antarctic. 279p, paperback edition. Fine. U.S., Terra Nova Press 2011. 3. Harding McGregor Dunnett - Shackleton’s Boat. The story of the James Caird. 255p, vii [3]p, 150p, illustrations and maps. Inscribed by author to Richard Reaney.
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Gt Britain, Neville & Harding 1996. 4. Judith Lee Hallock - Thomas Crean, Antarctic Explorer. Reprinted from Polar Record, Scott Polar Institute [1985] 295mm, 14p, paper covered booklet. $60 - $75 160 HAMRE, IVAR The Japanese South Polar Expedition [2 items] 1911-1912. A Little Known Episode in Antarctic Exploration. Reprint of the Journal Edition . 300mm, [2]l., 422-423p, addendum, [3]p, maps, 4 photographic images on 2 plates. Bound into dark blue cloth with white paper title label. Fine. Reprint edition of Journal Vol. 82. No.5, 1933. This expedition met with Amundsen’s men at the Bay of Whales, when the “Fram” returned in January 1912. Spence 2242 2, Nobu Shirase - The First Japanese Antarctic Expedition 1911-1912. Led by Lieutenant Nobu Shirase in the Vessel “Kainan Maru”. Edited by Richard Reaney. 300mm, 18p [single side],maps and illustrations [some colour], appendices. Bound in dark blue cloth with white paper title label, fine. Single print edition. Napier, New Life Books 2007. Spence 2448 $100 161 HANSSEN, HELMER Voyages of a Modern Viking. Foreword by E.R.G.R. Evans. 222mm, pp, [ii], xiv, 216p, complete with maps and plate, index. Original blue cloth with gilt spine titles, light wear, VG copy. scarce. London, George Routledge 1936. First edition. Containing the only independent first hand account of Amundsen’s successful first attempt on attaining the South Pole. Renard 649, Not in Spence. $200 - $300 162 HARROWFIELD, DAVID Sledging Into History [6 titles by] 295mm, 119p complete with illustrations [some colour], maps and plans. turquoise blue boards, white titles, DJ, fine copy. Auckland, Macmillan 1981. 2. Call of the Ice. Fifty Years of New Zealand in the Antarctica. 260mm, 242p, illustrations and maps. DJ, fine. Auckland, David Bateman 2007. 3. Vanda Station. History of an antarctic Outpost 1968-1995. 245mm, 52p, illustrations, illustrated card covers, fine. New Zealand Antarctic Society, signed by author. 4. The Tip of an Iceberg. 251p, illustrations. Card covers, fine. Christchurch, South Latitude Research 1995, Inscribed by author. 5. Scott Base Antarctica. A History of New Zealand’s SouthernMost Station 1957-1997. 245mm, 48p, illustrated, card covers, fine. New Zealand Antarctic Society 1997. 6. Adrian Hayter - The Year of the Quiet Sun. One Year at Scott Base. 220mm, 187p, illus. DJ, VG. $60 - $100 163 HEADLAND, R.K. A Chronology of Antarctic Exploration. A synopsis of Events and Activities from the Earliest of Times until the International Polar Years 2007-2009. pp, 772p, maps, photographs, charts, sketches, graphs, histograms. Bound in dark blue cloth with gilt spine titles. A fine copy in DJ. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd 2009. Second edition. Updated version with 4865 entries to 2008 and a cross reference index of 50,000 entries. $100 163 A. HEADLAND, ROBERT Chronological List of Antarctic Expeditions and Related Historical Events 255mm, [x], 730p, maps, plates, graphs etc. Illustrated, laminated boards, VG copy. Cambridge University Press 1989, first edition.