preface sir clements markham (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Offered here is a 1927 reprint of Scott s Last Expedition, published by John Murray. This edition presents the poignant and historic personal journals of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, documenting his ill-fated journey to the South Pole during the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910 1913. Captain Scott s firsthand account provides a gripping narrative of endurance, discovery, and tragedy, culminating in his final, moving diary entries before his death on the return journey. This book preserves the integrity of the original 1913 publication and includes beautiful photographs, offering readers a direct connection to one of the most legendary expeditions in polar exploration. Scott's Last Expedition; The Personal Journals of Captain R.F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O., On His Journey to The South Pole. With Biographical Introduction by J.M. Barrie and a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S. Published by John Murray, London. June 1927 reprint of the 'Cheap Edition', first published by John Murray in September, 1923, following the first edition, in 2 Volumes, by Smith, Elder & Co., in November, 1913. A good hardback copy with pictorial cloth cover. Worn and bumped, with the pine heavily faded and frayed to extremities. With printed map endpaper designs. Endpapers and first few pages at either end of the book with some spotting. A little weak in the spine, but all still soundly bound. Text is generally bright and clean, with clear, high-quality plates that resonate with the human drama of the expedition. Text in English. xxviii + 519pp (including 2 illustrated pages) +(2) Publisher's Advertisements + 17 Plates (including frontispiece). All Plates as called for. Dimensions: Approximately 202mm high x 139mm wide x 50mm deep. Weight: Approximately 604g (unpacked). More photos on request.

With Biographical Introduction by Sir J.M. Barrie and a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. With 19 gravure photo illustrations by Herbert G. Pointing and others. (illustrator). Front endpapers a little toned. Barely visible stain at bottom of cover. Otherwise a book in fine condition. 8vo. 8" x 5-3/8". Blue pictorial cloth cover. 519 pp. Map endpapers of the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint (first published 1913). Hardback copy in light blue pictorial cloth boards, no dustjacket. 521pp + 2pp book catalogue to rear. Sepia portrait frontispiece, 18 sepia photographic plates throughout, map endpapers. Not library copy, no inscriptions, some wear to board edges small tear to head of spine. (32/2).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 4th Edition. Fourth edition. Two volumes. Some damp staining to the bottom of the textblocks of both volumes. Otherwise very good clean copies with some light repairs to fold out maps. Postage will be higher than quoted for outside NZ.

Arranged By Leonard Huxley. Preface By Sir Clements R. Markham. Frontispiece In Each Volume., with 6 photogravures and 18 colored plates, many full-page black & white plates; maps Scott reached the South Pole on Jan. 18, 1912, after being beaten (illustrator). Very Good (little wear covers; contents clean & tight, hinges tight). A pretty nice copy!! Two thick, tall 8vos., blue cloth stamped in gilt Fourth Edition of the famous official expedition account, arranged from Scott's journals which were retrieved when his tent was discovered in 1912.

Hardcover. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First American Edition. First American Edition. Hardcover. Includes photogravure plates, folding photographic panoramas, several maps (4 folding of various sizes), and nearly 300 photographic illustrations (many full page). [Spence, 1058]. Minor shelf/edge wear, gilt lightly toned, discrete paper spine label near heel, library bookplate at front pastedown, discrete stamp at front pastedown, one map shows minor creases at edges and small closed tear near tab, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering, frontispiece(s), printed tissue guards, foldout maps and images, teg. 8vo. 443, 376pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Appendix. Index. Very Good. No Dustjacket as Issued.

[Polar Exploration] FIRST COLONIAL EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 497; [11]; pp.x; 431; [1]. With eight photographic plates including a frontispiece to each volume, and a folding map at the rear of each volume. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles and blue stamped decoration to spines and upper boards. With dust-jackets showing an image of Captain Scott to the front cover. Some rubbing and spotting to edges. Light spotting and offsetting to endpapers. Light pencil annotations to contents page of volume II. A square cut-out of a newspaper column announcing the promotion of Sir E.R.G.R. Evans to Admiral taped to verso of illustrations list of volume I. Light occasional spotting. Tears to map joint corners. Cloth spines lightly faded. Jackets with chips from head and tail of spines and corners; toning to spines. Rarely seen in jackets. Near fine. Rosove 290.C1.a.