Published by Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 1959
Seller: Cosmo Books, Shropshire., United Kingdom
US$ 15.09
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Add to basketBooklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 31 pages, 4 plates, 1 fold-out plate. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: Institution of Civil Engineers; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.
Published by Alfred James Kent, Government Printer, Sydney, 1925
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
First Edition
Soft Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 285pp + 18 bw plates, 21 text figures, 120 tables. Or wraps with cloth tape spine. Some tears to spine, damp stained at fore-edge margin of several pages, stamp of Royal Society Qld (and cancelled stamp) on front cover. Issued March, 1925. Scientific report from the Australasian Antarctic expedition 1911-14 under the leadership of Sir Douglas Mawson. Size: 4to.
Published by The Adventure Library, North Salem, NY, 1999
Seller: Dark and Stormy Night Books, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Adventure Library Edition. Hard cover, 8vo, in half gray buckram with illustrated paper-covered boards featuring facsimile manuscript of the great Polar explorer Douglas Mawson, title to black printed labels to the spine, gilt, 274 pp. First Edition. Condition Fine (as new). A biography of Australian Sir Douglas Mawson, (1882-1958), once a member of Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition 1907-1909. Later, in 1911-1914, Mawson would have the epic survival adventure to complete the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Originally a three man scientific party, he would finish the expedition alone, suffering what is described as " the ultimate test of strength and endurance, an ordeal of almost unimaginable proportions." This volume is reprinted from a 1977 title with additions, including a forward by Sir Edmund Hillary, reproduction glass-plate photographs, and a new Author's Notes, as well as a reprint of Mawson's expedition diary. Book.
Sydney 1925. 285 pp. + 18 plates. Printed wrapper. Figures in text. 30x24 cm. Library stamp. Scientific Reports Series B. Vol. I.Terrestial Magnetism Part I-II. (Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14. Under the leadership of sir Douglas Mawson).