Sollas Professor (4 results)

Condition: Good. 287 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Moderate foxing to edges and pages throughout. Tight copy. Record # 612340.

TWO VOL SET, imperial ocatvo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, blind rule to spine & boards, printed/patterned eps, vol 1- viii + 289pp, vol 2- unpaginated prelims + 215pp, illus/folding map, G (severe water damage to boards- contents relatively unscathed with only light to moderate water damage/wrinkling/staining, moderate fading to spines, other moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning/foxing & moderate soiling to page edges, sm patch of paper residue to head of vol 2 spine, prev. owner's name in ink to ffeps of both vols, prev. bookseller's sm labels to base of front pastedowns, ffep & title page detached & creased but present to vol 1, moderate cracking to gutters, light to moderate foxing & soiling throughout).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A smart first edition of George Binney's account of his pioneering expeditions to the Arctic, compete with a folding map and plates. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding map, and thirty-nine plates. Collated complete. George Binney's account of his pioneering expeditions to the Arctic using seaplanes, detailing his leading of the 1923 Merton College Arctic Expedition, and the 1924 Oxford University Arctic Expedition. The expedition was the first to traverse Nordaustlandet or North East Land, the second-largest island in the Svalbard archipelago, using the Avro 504O seaplane ("The Avro Arctic"). Written by Sir Frederick George Binney, a noted Arctic explorer. With a preface from William Johnson Sollas, a British geologist and anthropologist. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Fading to the spine and board edges with a small split to the front joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Minor spotting and light age toning to the first and last few pages. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of George Binney's account of his pioneering expeditions to the Arctic, compete with a folding map and plates. The first edition.George Binney's account of his pioneering expeditions to the Arctic using seaplanes, detailing his leading of the 1923 Merton College Arctic Expedition, and the 1924 Oxford University Arctic Expedition.Illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding map, and thirty-nine plates.Collated, complete.With a preface by Professor W. J. Sollas.Eight pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart, with some light marks to the boards and spine. Small amount of bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, with a small tear to the head of the spine. Spine is a little faded. Spots to the fore edge. Gilt prize stamp to the front board, prize label to the front paste down. Rear hinge is starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some scattered spots. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…