Antarctic and Arctic exploration Twenty eight works. Fridtjo...

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Antarctic and Arctic exploration Twenty eight works. Fridtjof Nansen. 'Farthest North,' two vols, rebound in a contemporary green cloth, copious plates throughout, speckled red ink edge, vg, George Newnes, London, 1898; George Binney. 'With Seaplane and Sledge in the Arctic,' original cloth, sun bleached backstrip, spotting to edges of leaves through, copious plates as called for, vg, Hutchinson & Co, London, n.d; Sir Douglas Mawson. 'The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914,' first edition thus, original cloth, splitting to rear joint, spotting to prelims and edge of text block, plates and fold out maps, good to vg, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1930; Martin Lindsay. 'Sledge. The British Trans-Greenland Expedition 1934,' first edition, lacks dj, original cloth, spotting to prelims and edge of text block, plates, Cassell and Company, 1935; Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary. 'the Crossing of the Antarctica,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, spotting throughout, good, Cassell, London, 1958; With twenty two other works. (28)

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