Ross captain (20 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Original Cloth. Good Plus/Good Plus. First Edition. 234pp. B&w pls. Near vg in like dj. Amphibious aircraft in New Zealand. Size: 8vo.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: Fair. 1903. No Edition Remarks. 384 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Missing front free endpaper. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns, title pages and rear free endpaper. Moderate cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached; cracking lighter to hinges. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Octavo, 24pp, folding facsimile engraving of 'Captain Ross's voyage to the North Pole', original boards, a small bookplate, a near fine copy. Facsimile edition.

144pp. 4to. Original stiffened wrappers, light wear to extremities, slight bend in upper wrapper. Black and white prints and maps. A very good copy.

hardcover. 1969 rep. xiii, 447pp, folding maps and panoramas, original blue cloth, some speckling to cloth as is often the case with this title, VG in VG dw with sunning to spine. When Captain James Ross sailed from England in command of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in 1839, practically nothing was known of the great Antarctic continent. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Cover. Reprint. The author has Ross Island and Ross Dependency Territories named after him.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Captain Malcolm Ross served in the First World War and describes his experiences with candor and humor in this captivating memoir.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. F. Interesting first hand account of the 51st Division on the Western Front in WWI, well illustrated with pen and ink sketches. 313pp., ills., Very minor blemishes, otherwise very good condition.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the Years 1839-43, Captain Sir James Clark Ross. Published by John Murray, London, Undated, Circa 1847. 2 volumes. Volume I: lii, 366 pp. Volume II: [vii]-x, 447 pp. with in text illustrations, plates and maps; folding map to each volume at rear; folding plate in Volume 1. Quarter leather over brown textured cloth, all edges red. Front boards detached in Volume 1; inner hinges lightly weakened; foxing to preliminaries; leather spines very rubbed. Library labels to front boards are from the well-respected Lovejoy and Southern Counties Circulating Library, 37 and 38 London Street, Reading. At the time, Lovejoy's library was reputedly the largest private circulating library in England outside London. The bookshop and library were continued after Lovejoy's death by Eliza Langley, his assistant of 21 years; her name appears on these labels. This 1847 account by Sir James Clark Ross, documents his groundbreaking expedition with HMS Erebus and Terror which resulted in the discovery of the Ross Sea, the Ross Ice Shelf, and Victoria Land. The expedition had a major scientific impact: it identified the approximate location of the South Magnetic Pole and provided extensive oceanographic, magnetic, and geological data.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 4to. pp. xxiv, 182, [2], 68 (Appendix); eng. frontis. of"The James Watt, Steam Packet, Propelling against a storm", 31 figures to text including 1 engraved plate, errata slip tipped-in at p.1; a little foxing to frontis., else very good in contemporary full calf, expertly rebacked with original spine retained, gilt decorated spine with contrasting lettering piece, minor wear to extrems. Presentation inscription to flyleaf from Lady Rivett-Carnac to Richard Creighton in 1844 with recipient's ownership inscription to title-page, the Bertram Plimer copy with his bookplate loosely inserted. The British Admiralty had been slow in seeing the advantages of steam navigation when Ross wrote this, the first work on steam navigation by a naval officer. His plea for the new technology was borne out in practice by Ross himself, who at that time was preparing his second attempt at the North-West Passage aboard the paddle steamer Victory. A rarity of the literature.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. good order -cloth still reasonably bright-gilt work not faded.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. No signatures. Spine faded. Moderate spotting to top page edges. A couple of small stains to top page edges. Minor rubbing to edges of spine and boards. Tissue guard to frontis present. Gutters intact at hinges.; Second impression. x, [2], 271, [3] pages + [2] pages advertisements + frontis + 11 illustrations on 7 leaves. Black titles on spine and front board. Gilt sunrise (or sunset?) illustration on front board. "Most of these sketches were written whilst the scenes and incidents they depict were fresh in the mind; some under fire. The proofs were corrected on the battlefield of the Somme in a tent over which British and German shells were passing at the time." - from the preface.; 12mo. …

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. A very sharp example of the 1969 reprint --complete in 2 volumes-- of the 1847 original printings, published originally by John Murray of London and here re-done by Augustus M. Kelley of New York. Both volumes in this handsome re-issue clean and Near Fine in crisp, Near Fine dustjackets, with one very small closed tear along volume 1's top-edge. Thick octavos, Foreword by Sir Raymond Priestley. Fold-out plates in each volume, several dozen maps and plates complementing Captain Ross's text. Vol. 1: August 1839-April '41; Vol. 2: April 1841-September '43.…

Maps. Zustand: Otherwise very good condition. A rare map of islands in the Andaman Sea, Burma, surveyed by Daniel Ross, known as the "Father of the Indian Surveys." Captain Ross was engaged in surveying the coast of China from 1806-1820. His highly accurate & trigonometrical charts were published as they were completed, and the whole were incorporated into Horsburgh's general charts. In 1823, he became the Marine Surveyor General. Clements Markham, in "A Memoir on the Indian Surveys" (1871) stated that "During the Burmese War from 1823 to 1826 the useful operations under his superintendency were interrupted." and despite a "fit of ruinous economy" in 1828, Ross resumed his good work and in 1830, again had two brigs (surveying) in the Mergui Archipelago. The map was surveyed on the heels of the First Burmese War, perhaps with thoughts of being prepared for another war, and another, which fortunately did not start again until the 1850s. The map shows the islands Hasting's, St. Matthew's and St. Luke's, now named Hastings, Zadetkalay and Zadetkyi. Other islands include Pine Tree, Russell's, Three Hill, Phipp's, Barwell's and Horse Shoe Island, mostly appearing as Kawthaung on Google maps. James Horsburgh (1762 -1836) was a Scottish hydrographer who worked for the British East India Company and charted much of South East Asia in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. When he retired from the sea in 1806, he produced a Sailing Directory to the East and in 1810 was appointed as hydrographer to the East India Company where he revised the Directory, publishing editions in 1816-7, 1826-7, and 1836. After his death the Admiralty took up the Directory and released editions in 1841, 1852, 1855, and 1864. his charts eventually passed to the Admiralty Hydrographic Office who also reissued them. Sea chart backed on linen and edged in blue silk, 19 1/2 x 22". Some spotting in the lower right corner (water) but otherwise remarkable clean and fresh, including the silk ties. "Engraved by Richard Bateman" beneath the title. The British Library holds a copy (BLL01004857047) but not noted on OCLC.…