polar exploration (7 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. The English-language issue of the first edition. Slim 8vo. 62pp stapled into somewhat dust soiled card wrappers. The staples rusted. Contemporary date inked to the head of the first leaf, and with one printed correction in the text. A good copy. An account of the polar ship Fram, penned by Henning Sinding-Larsen and based on a booklet by Knut Domass. Illustrated with twenty-two photographs and one maps. The text in English, with some summary text also presented in French and German. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

One page, folio, fold marks, closed tear and small loss of paper not affecting text, two small holes affecting but not obscuring words. Text: " SIR, \ You will receive enclosed [not present] the Annual Missive, with a copy of the Acts of the last Convention. By the 22nd Act, the Reports made by me in relation to the Setts of the Royal Burghs are ordered to be printed and circulated to the different Burghs. To save the expense of postage, these have not been inclosed; but a copy of them will be delivered to any person whom you desire to call here for it; or it will be sent by post if you wish this done ;subsxction and signature]". See Image. [see Note B] Notes: A. "John Irving, a lawyer who was a member of the Society of Writers to the Signet and childhood friend of Sir Walter Scott" [from Wikipedia entry for his son, polar explorer, Franklin Expedition]; B. "'Annual missive' in the context of a Scottish burgh historically refers to the yearly communication, often involving the assessment and collection of dues (missive dues) to fund the administrative expenses of the Convention of Royal Burghs." [AI].

1 page. 1 vols. 8vo. 1 page. 1 vols. 8vo. Saying that he does not have a photograph available at that time due to similar requests but that Halpern might check the local library and look at his book "Reminiscences." The eminent arctic explorer and American Army Officer. He commanded the American expedition in 1881 to establish circumpolar stations, discovered new land north of Greenland and reached the most northerly point to that time. In addition to his polar exploration he served in the Civil War, set up military telegraph lines in Montana, the Dakotas and Texas in the late 1870's and set up telegraph lines in China, Alaska, Cuba and the Philippine Islands. He was also in charge of the relief operations in the San Francisco area after the 1906 earthquake disaster. Greely was also the author of several volumes on the polar regions and also telegraphs. From the collection of Seymour Halpern. Seymour Halpern was a Representative from New York. From 1931 to 1933 he was a reporter and feature writer for the Long Island Daily Press and the Chicago Herald Examiner. Addressed to Seymour Halfsen, a misreading of signature of Seymour Halpern. Letter folded else very good.

The first of two series issued by Player, this featuring both Arctic and Antarctic expeditionsWe regret that VAT must be charged on orders from clients within the EU for this item.

Zustand: Very Good+. Wein [Vienna]: Alfred Hölder, 1876. First Edition. Large octavo (24 cm); cvi; 696pp; woodblock illus. throughout and 57 plates including frontis; 3 folding maps. Boards in brown cloth with gilt and black pictorial stamping. Edges marbled. Board extremities rubbed and slightly worn with shelfwear and clean break to spine tail above headband. Reinforced hinges to endsheets, possible repair. Brief pencil at title page, helpfully translating a few of the German letters for an English reader. Two of the three maps have small tears to gutter edge but otherwise intact. Light foxing throughout. A Very Good or better copy. An account of the successful Austro-Hungarian North Pole expedition lead by Julius Payer and Karl Weyprecht, detailing their discovery of Franz Josef Land in the arctic ocean after they lost their ship to the ice and had to sled back to Novaya Zemlya in Russia just before supplies ran out. The expedition made multiple contributions to polar science, including magnetism and detailed sightings of the Aurora Borealis.

First edition of this survey of polar exploration and science, issued in conjunction with the British Polar Exhibition of 1930, an event organised to support the recently established Scott Polar Research Institute. Edited by the Antarctic explorer Louis Bernacchi, the volume gathers contributions from prominent polar figures including Frank Debenham, first director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, and James Mann Wordie, polar explorer and geologist, covering subjects such as the history of polar discovery, geophysics, whaling, polar biology, and the provisioning of sledge expeditions. Octavo. With 2 colours maps on one folding sheet. Original pictorial wrappers with polar animals, spine lettered in black, front wrapper lettered in black and yellow. Bookplate of Peter L. Keage, Antarctic researcher to inner front cover. General marking, diagonal crease on front cover. A near-fine copy.

Good. Light wear along original fold lines. Light toning. Verso repairs to fold separations. Size 13 x 11.75 Inches. This is an 1867 Victor-Auguste Malte-Brun and Georges Erhard Schièble map of the North Pole highlighting three proposed polar expeditions. The map captures the peak of the global competition to reach the North Pole. Reaching the Pole was considered a matter of national pride, with both government-funded and private expeditions making the attempt. This map captures rival proposals by French, English, and German explorers. A Closer Look With the North Pole at the center, coverage embraces the northern parts of the Earth as far south as the Black Sea and the Great Lakes. Red lines trace proposed English, French, and German expeditions to the North Pole. Four smaller maps (one in each corner) illustrate the proposed route of the French expedition, the South Polar regions, the variation in the Magnetic North Pole, and the average insolation curve for June 21, 1867, respectively. Three Proposed Expeditions Three red lines trace proposed expeditions to reach the North Pole. These were proposed by Sherard Osborn (British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer), Augustus Petermann (German cartographer and publisher), and Gustave Lambert (French hydrographer and Arctic explorer). Each was either an experienced Arctic (Osborn and Lambert) traveler or considered a geographical expert (Petermann). Petermann : Petermann's (1822 - 1878) efforts to push Germany into the race to explore the North Pole gave rise to the 1868 First German North Polar Expedition, which explored the northeastern coast of Spitsbergen (as suggested by Petermann) and prepared the way for the 1869 Second German North Polar Expedition Osborn : Osborn's (1822 - 1875) proposal led to the 1875-76 British Arctic Expedition. Osborn himself was set to be a member of the expedition committee but tragically died in London only a few days after the expedition set sail. The expedition, nonetheless, pressed on. They successfully pushed farther north than any previous voyage, reaching a record latitude of 83°20'26'' N, but were ultimately thwarted by extreme cold, scurvy, and difficult ice conditions. Despite not reaching the Pole, the expedition gathered valuable scientific and geographic data, mapping parts of northern Greenland and Ellesmere Island and disproving the long-held theory of an open polar sea. Lambert : Lambert's (1824 - 1871) proposal failed to produce an expedition. Lambert himself was organizing the expedition, which had an estimated cost 600,000 French Francs. He began raising money as early as 1867 and by July 1870 raised 400,000 Francs and acquired a ship for the voyage, the Boréal . Political events nonetheless intervened. When the Franco-Prussian War (1870 - 1871) broke out, the 46-year-old Lambert determined that his talents would best serve his country in the army. Although assigned to a company of francs-tireurs (marksmen) in Bordeaux, it instead went to Parios. He was mortally wounded in the Second Battle of Bouzenval on January 19, 1871, and died days later, on January 27. Publication History and Census This map was engraved by Georges Erhard Schièble after a map created by Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun and printed by the Imprimerie Monrocq for publication in Adrien Desprez's book Les voyageurs au pole nord depuis les premières expeditions scandinaves jusqu'a celle de M. Gustave Lambert . We note 3 examples of the separate map cataloged in OCLC, which are part of the collections at the Newberry Library, the University of Chicago, and the Université Toulouse 1 Capitole. An example is also part of the David Rumsey Map Collection. The book appears in about a dozen collections worldwide. References: Rumsey 16357.000. OCLC 244636850, 966290078.