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Antarctica. 2 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 57 2012 GASTON RENARD Pty. Ltd. Established 1945 Postal Address: (A.C.N. 005 928 503) Electronic communications: P.O. Box 1030, ABN: 68 893 979 543 Telephone: +61 (0)3 9459 5040 Ivanhoe, Melbourne, FAX: +61 (0)3 9459 6787 Victoria, 3079, Australia. www.GastonRenard.com E-mail: [email protected] Short List No. 57 - 2012. Antarctica. 2 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 57 2012. 1 Alexander, Caroline. THE ENDURANCE. Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition. In association with the American Museum of Natural History. [With the astonishing unpublished photographs of Frank Hurley]. Square 4to, First Edition, 15th Impr.; pp. [x], 214; numerous illusts. from photos by Hurley; original quarter cloth; a fine copy in d/w. New York; Alfred A. Knopf; 2006. ***Printed and bound in the U.K. #64840 A$85.00 3 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 57 2012. 2 Amundsen, Roald. THE SOUTH POLE: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the “Fram”, 1910-1912. Translated from the Norwegian by A. G. Chater. 2 vols., thick med. 8vo (approx.; 230 mm. by 155 mm.), First U.S. Edition; Vol. I, pp. xxxvi, 392; folding tinted General Map of the South Polar Region at end, 1 other map, 57 plates; Vol. II, pp. x, 450(last blank); 2 folding charts and 2 full-page charts, 16 other maps & charts, 43 plates, 7 text figs., folding sectional diagrams of the “Fram”, 5 scientific appendices, index; original cloth (a little worn & discoloured; spines wrinkled); top edges gilt; (light marginal staining to most plates; the final folding chart to Vol. II crudely repaired with sticky tape); a good, complete set; scarce. New York; Lee Keedick; 1913. ***Spence 18; Renard 20; Rosove A9.B2. This edition consists of the sheets of the First London Edition (first impression), with the title- leaf and last leaf in each volume replaced by cancel leaves with the U.S. details, and is identical in content to the First London Edition. #62491 A$650.00 4 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 57 2012. 3 Amundsen, Roald. THE SOUTH POLE: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the “Fram”, 1910-1912. Translated from the Norwegian by A. G. Chater. Two volumes in one. Thick med. 8vo, 2nd U.S. Edn.; pp. xxiv, xxvii-xxxvi(as issued), 392; [iii]-viii(as issued), 450(last blank); full-page map, 11 plates, 18 text maps, diags. & illusts., 5 appendices, index; original blue cloth, gilt (rear board slightly marked); a very nice, clean and bright copy; scarce. London; John Murray. New York, Lee Keedick; 1925. ***Spence 21. Printed in America from stereos of the first (London) edition with the Murray imprint on title and Lee Keedick on spine. #11212 A$850.00 5 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 57 2012. 4 Antarctica: ANTARCTICA. Compiled and Drawn in the Cartographic Section of the National Geographic Society for National Geographic Magazine. Melville Bell Grosvenor, Editor. James M. Darley, Chief Cartographer. Azimuthal Equidistant Projection. Scale 1:7,000,000 or 110.5 miles to the inch. Large folded col. map, 880 by 690 mm; a very good copy. Washington; National Geographic Society; September, 1957. ***Published at the commencement of the International Geophysical Year. With useful printed annotations relating early explorers to various geographical features. #17822 A$65.00 6 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 57 2012. FULL-LENGTH BIOGRAPHY OF MAWSON 5 Ayres, Philip. MAWSON. A LIFE. First Edition; pp. xx, 326(last 4 blank); 5 double-page maps, 48 plates (incl. 1 double- page, 12 col.), notes, bibliog., index; a fine copy in slightly worn d/w. (Carlton South); The Miegunyah Press (Melbourne University Press; 1999). ***At last, a portrait of Mawson, the complete man, whose two monumental and at times tragic Antarctic expeditions resulted in Australia’s claim to forty per cent of the Antarctic continent. Includes reproductions of early colour photographs from the Expedition of 1911-14. Number twenty-seven in the second Miegunyah Press series. #62470 A$65.00 7 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 57 2012. 6 Beals, Herbert K.; Campbell, R. J.; Savours, Ann & McConnell, Anita; and Bridges, Roy; Edited by. FOUR TRAVEL JOURNALS. The Americas, Antarctica and Africa, 1775-1874. Super roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. x, 404, [2] (blank); very numerous maps & illusts., appendices, bibliog., and index to each narrative; original cloth; a fine copy in d/w. London; Published by Ashgate for the Hakluyt Society; 2007. ***Series III, Volume 18. Comprising: The 1775 Journal of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra (Translated from the Spanish and edited by Herbert K. Beals); The Journal of HMS Beagle in the Strait of Magellan by Pringle Stokes, Commander RN 1827 (Edited by R. J. Campbell); Journal Kept by Midshipman Joseph Henry Kay during the voyage of HMS Chanticleer, 1828-1831 (Edited by Ann Savours and Anita McConnell); and ‘A Dangerous and Toilsome Journey’. Jacob Wainwright’s Diary of the Transportation of Dr Livingstone’s Body to the Coast, 4 May 1873-- 18 February 1874 (Translated from the German and edited by Roy Bridges). #13844 A$165.00 8 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 57 2012. 7 Bechervaise, John. BLIZZARD AND FIRE. A Year at Mawson, Antarctica. First Edition; pp. xii, 252; 15 plates (incl. 2 maps); original cloth; (cloth slightly marked, o/wise a very good copy in slightly worn d/w.); scarce. (Sydney); Angus and Robertson; (1963). #3955 A$75.00 9 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 57 2012. 8 [Bechervaise, John; & 38 other Authors]. ANTARCTICA: Great Stories from the Frozen Continent. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. 320; 1 double-page & 2 full-page maps & numerous smaller ones throughout (mainly col.), hundreds of col. & b/w. photos, gazetteer to the maps, general index; original slick, colour-illustrated boards; (a very slight bump to lower board); a nice copy in d/w. Sydney, London, [etc.]; Published by Reader’s Digest; (1985). ***As with so many other Reader’s Digest reference books (as opposed to the condensed variety) a very useful and informative reference, well illustrated, and now out of print and much sought after. Renard 104. #12799 A$165.00 10 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 57 2012. 9 Bickel, Lennard. SHACKLETON’S FORGOTTEN ARGONAUTS. [Foreword by Rt. Hon. Lord Shackleton, K.C., P.C., O.B.E.]. First Edition; pp. xiv, 230; 2 endpaper & 1 full-page maps, 16 plates (incl. 2 double-page), index; original red-brown papered boards, spine lettered in white; a very good copy in d/w.; scarce. (Melbourne); Macmillan; (1982). ***Renard 131. #3949 A$195.00 11 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 57 2012. 10 Borchgrevink, C. E.; Commander of the Expedition. FIRST ON THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENT: Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900. First Edition; pp. xvi, 336(last 3 blank), 32(adv); 3 folding tinted maps, 19 full-page plates (incl. photogravure portrait frontis.), 178 photos. in text, appendices, index; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front board, with fine gilt illustration of the Author standing on the Antarctic on spine, and superb gilt and silver illustration on front board; top edge gilt, others uncut; (spine dull & lower edge of front board a little worn); a very good, generally clean copy; very scarce. London; George Newnes, Limited; 1901. ***Spence 151; Renard 152; Rosove 45.A1. Inscribed on half-title in Norwegian to “Oscar Loruna from the South Polar Land” possibly by the Author and with postcard discussing this matter from A. G. E. Jones loosely inserted. A comparison of the handwriting and the facsimile signature of Borchgrevink beneath the frontispiece is suggestive that he is indeed the inscriber. #29327 A$2750.00 12 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 57 2012. 11 Borchgrevink, C. E. FIRST ON THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENT: Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900. By C. E. Borchgrevink, F.R.G.S. Commander of the Expedition. With a new introduction by Tore Gjelsvik, Director, Norwegian Polar Institute. With Portraits, Maps and 186 Illustrations. Facsimile Edition; pp. xvi, viii(Introduction, last blank), 334(last blank); frontis., 3 folding maps & 1 text map, 197 illusts. (some full-page); appendices, index; original blue papered boards (slightly marked), lettered in gilt; a very good copy; scarce. London; C. Hurst & Company, Canberra, Australian National University Press; (1980). ***Renard 155; Rosove 45.B1. #4806 A$275.00 13 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 57 2012. 12 Brunt, Sir David; General Editor. THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL YEAR ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION HALLEY BAY, Coats Land, Falkland Islands Dependencies 1955-1959. 4 vols., roy. 4to, First Edition; Volume I, Introductions, Aurora and Airglow Geomagnetism, pp. xvi, 224, 184(magnetograms, last 3 blank); full-page map, 1 col. & 12 b/w. plates, 45 figs., 186 tables, refs.; Volume II, Radio Astronomy Ionospheric Physics, pp. xvi, 292(last 3 blank); 14 plates, 160 figs., 114 tables, 4 appendices; Volume III, Seismology, Meteorology, pp. [ii], viii, 382, [2](blank); 5 plates, numerous figs. & tables, refs.; Volume IV, Meteorology, Glaciology, Appendixes, pp. [ii], xviii, 414, [2](blank); 21 b/w. plates, numerous text illusts., figs., tables, & graphs, etc.; original maroon cloth, spines lettered in gilt; (a few leaves in Magnetogram section of Vol. I wrongly imposed, and therefore out of order, but quite complete); a very good set, with all but Vol. III in d/ws. London; The Royal Society; 1960-62-62-64.
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