eric przybyllok (2 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). A lovely first English edition recounting the 2nd German Antarctic exhibition, filled with monochrome illustrations. An incredibly smart copy, in original binding, with very smart silver gilt motif to the front board and gilt lettering to the spine.With a presentation bookplate to front free endpaper, reading 'Presented to Captain R. J. Campbell OBE Royal Navy by Rear Admiral N Essenhigh, Hydrographer of the Navy, and colleagues in the Hydrographic Office, on his retirement as Head of Sailing Directions. 26 August 1994.'Features a monochrome frontispiece, and frequent monochrome vignette illustrations.German army officer, scientist and explorer Wilhelm Filchner originally published this title in 1922, recounting the Antarctic expedition Filchner led as an attempt to prove Antarctica to be a single body of land, with the assistance of Alfred King and Eric Przybyllok, who accompanied Filchner. Bound in original lovely blue cloth. Externally, very smart. Very slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Bookplate of Captain Richard Campbell to front endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally very bright and clean. Near Fine. book.

0. 4to. 253 Seiten, 1 Titelporträt, 97 Abbildungen, Blauer illustrierter Original-Leinenband. - In englischer Sprache. - Mit einer signierten Widmung des Herausgebers William Barr an Erika Schneider-Filchner (Tochter von Wilhelm Filchner) auf dem Titelblatt, sowie einer weiteren Widmung von Erika Schneider-Filchner an Ihre Tochter (Jan. 1995) und einer mehrzeiligen handschriflichen Notiz der Tochter auf der letzten Seite über Erika Schneider-Filchner (Febr. 1995). - Gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Sprache: Englischg 1,800 gr. Blauer illustrierter Original-Leinenband.