William Barr Trans Ed (3 results)

Condition: good, very good. 332, illus., maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, DJ in plastic sleeve, marginal pencil marks on a few pages. This book was originally published, in Russian, in 1946. This translation is largely based on the Third Edition (originally published in 1959), and represents an amalgam of the First and Third Editions. An account of the first modern attempt at a systematic survey of the arctic waters north of Siberia. The author served as medical officer aboard the Imperial Russian Navy icebreaker Taymyr throughout the voyages. In his discovery of a pronounced anti-American element in later editions of the original work, the editor has provided an interesting sidelight on the influence of the Cold War upon the literature of the Arctic.…

1st edition dust jacket Fine octavo xxxiv + 332pp., b/w pls., maps, bibliog., index.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. A lovely first English edition recounting the 2nd German Antarctic exhibition, filled with monochrome illustrations. An incredibly smart copy, in original binding, with very smart silver gilt motif to the front board and gilt lettering to the spine.With a presentation bookplate to front free endpaper, reading 'Presented to Captain R. J. Campbell OBE Royal Navy by Rear Admiral N Essenhigh, Hydrographer of the Navy, and colleagues in the Hydrographic Office, on his retirement as Head of Sailing Directions. 26 August 1994.'Features a monochrome frontispiece, and frequent monochrome vignette illustrations.German army officer, scientist and explorer Wilhelm Filchner originally published this title in 1922, recounting the Antarctic expedition Filchner led as an attempt to prove Antarctica to be a single body of land, with the assistance of Alfred King and Eric Przybyllok, who accompanied Filchner. Bound in original lovely blue cloth. Externally, very smart. Very slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Bookplate of Captain Richard Campbell to front endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally very bright and clean. Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…