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ANTARCTIC LAW AND POLITICS.
C. Hurst & Company, London/Croom-Helm (Australia), Canberra, 1982. 1st Ed. xx + 361pp. + [iii]. 4 maps. Ex.-libris Ann Savours Shirley with inscription, e.ps. lightly spotted, good in lightly soiled d/w.
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LA CONQUÊTE DU POLE. Histoire des Missions Arctiques depuis les Temps les plus Reculés Jusqu’a nos Jours.
Paris Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1904. 1st Ed. 4to. xvi + 383pp. Numerous ills., folding map. French text. Light browning, with the signature of Ann Savours Shirley, prize bookplate, original dec. cloth, some loss to corners, recased, spine faded and sl. stained.
¶ Charles Marie Eugène Pierre Bénard (1867–1931) French mariner, who engaged in Arctic exploration, oceanography, and archaeology.
¶ Charles Marie Eugène Pierre Bénard (1867–1931) French mariner, who engaged in Arctic exploration, oceanography, and archaeology.
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SAINT-ELZÉAR BERNIER. Champion of Canadian Arctic Sovereignty. Translated by William Barr.
Baraka Books, Quebec/Arctic Institute of North America, 2009. English Ed. Royal 8vo. 371pp. + [i]. 16 maps, numerous ills. throughout mainly from photos. Ex.-libris Ann Savours Shirley, original pictorial limp card wrapps., sl. rubbed and curled at corners.
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CANADA’S EASTERN ARCTIC. Its History, Resources, Population and Administration. Assembled by ... Foreword by Thomas G. Murphy.
Ottawa: J.O. Patenaude, 1935. 1st Ed. Slim 8vo. 166pp. Port. frontis., many ills. from photos., 2 photocopies of the map to accompany report loosely inserted at rear. From the library of Ann Savours Shirley with inscription to top edge of title page, original stapled pale blue limp wrapps. lettered and illus. in black to upper wrapp., lightly soiled and with ink annotation along top edge of upper wrapp., spine lightly browned and sl. chipped, head of spine bumped and sl. split to head of upper joint with splits intruding across spine.
¶ Department of the Interior.
¶ Department of the Interior.
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A L’ASSAUT DU PÔLE SUD. Voyages et Aventures dans les Régions Antarctiques 1599-1906. Préface par le D’Richer de l’Institut. Première Série in-quarto.
Librairie Nationale ... Limoges, 1905. 4to. 224pp. 12 engravings. French text. Ex.-libris Ann Savours Shirley and with inscription, some very light marginal browning, e.ps. lightly browned, lower f.e.p. creased, original gilt lettered red cloth decorated in gilt, rubbed, most of gilt lettering and decoration to spine rubbed away, sl. wear to corners and head and tail of spine.
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DE EERSTE TOCHT VAN DE WILLEM BARENTS naar de Noordelijke Ijszee 1878. De dagborken van Antonius de Bruijne en Bastiaan Gerardus Baljé. Ingeleid end Geannoteerd door W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns.
Zutphen De Walburg Pers, 1985. 1st Ed. 2 vols. 368pp. Numerous ills. Dutch text. Sl. chipped d/ws. faded to spines.
¶ Werken Uitgegeven door de Linschoten-Vereeniging LXXXIV and LXXXV. With the signature of Ann Savours Shirley, with a copy of her review of the work. With various postcards from the Author to Ms Shirley and other pieces of ephemera.
¶ Werken Uitgegeven door de Linschoten-Vereeniging LXXXIV and LXXXV. With the signature of Ann Savours Shirley, with a copy of her review of the work. With various postcards from the Author to Ms Shirley and other pieces of ephemera.
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AS LONDONER IN RUPERT’S LAND. Thomas Bunn of the Hudson’s Bay Company.
Moore & Tillyer, Chichester/Pegui Publishers, Canada, 1969. Tall Slim 8vo. vi + 100pp. Port. frontis., 12 plates, folding pedigree. E.p. maps, ex.-libris Ann Savours Shirley with inscription, original gilt lettered cloth sl. rubbed to extremities, good in lightly soiled and sl. chipped d/w. lightly browned to spine.
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THE IÑUPIAQ ESKIMO NATIONS OF NORTHWEST ALASKA.
University of Alaska Press, Alaska, 1998. 1st Printing. Royal 8vo. xviii + 473pp. + [v]. 13 ills. mainly from photos., 41 figures, 18 tables. Ex.-libris Ann Savours Shirley, upper leading corner of lower board sl. bumped, otherwise very good in d/w.
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WITH BYRD AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD. The South Pole Expedition of 1928-1930. Foreword by Govenor Jay S. Hammond.
Stackpole Books, Philadelphia, 1990. 1st Ed. [x] + 196pp. + [ii]. 16 pages of photos., map. Ex.-libris Ann Savours Shirley with inscription along top edge of title page, good in d/w.
¶ Author’s Presentation Copy, inscribed to title page - ‘Dream Big and Dare To Fail Norman D. Vaughan.’
¶ Author’s Presentation Copy, inscribed to title page - ‘Dream Big and Dare To Fail Norman D. Vaughan.’
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AN ALASKAN GOLD MINE. The Story of No. 9 Above.
Northwestern Univ. Press Evanston, 1951. 1st Ed. xii + 178pp. 7 ills., 2 maps. Light browning, original blue cloth, gilt lettered black label patch to upper board and spine.
¶ Inscribed ‘For Vilas Johnson with the good wishes of Leland H. Carlson.’ Social Sciences Series Number Seven.
¶ Inscribed ‘For Vilas Johnson with the good wishes of Leland H. Carlson.’ Social Sciences Series Number Seven.
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IM LANDE MITTERNACHTS-SONNE. Sommer- und Winterreisen durch Norwegen und Schweden, Lappland und Nord-Finnland, frei übersetzt von A.Helms. Mit 48 Tonbildern, ungefähr 200 Holzschnitten im Text, einer großen Ansicht von Stockholm uund Karte.
Leipzig Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn, 1882. 1st German Ed. 2 vols. viii + 464pp. + [viii] + 472pp. 48 plates, 200 woodcuts in the text, double page view of Stockholm, folding map. German text. From the library of Lionel Carley, light age toning, hinges cracked, original gilt lettered black ills. red cloth, spines dulled and chipped with loss, some marking to lower board of volume 1.
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ACROSS ICELAND. The Land of Frost and Fire.
John Lane, 1938. 1st Ed. [xii] + 193pp. + [i] publ. advert. 12 ills., sketch map. From the Library of Ann Savours Shirley, some light browning, prize bookplate, inscription, original red lettered turquoise cloth, foxed d/w. chipped with loss to edges.
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PURSUING THE WHALE. A Quarter-Century of Whaling in the Arctic. With an Introduction by Allan Forbes.
John Murray, 1926. 1st Ed. x + 344pp. Port. frontis., many plates. Some light foxing, with the signature of Ann Savours Shirley, original black lettered blue cloth, spine faded and bumped.
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A LIFE OF JOHN DAVIS, The Navigator, 1550-1605, Discoverer of Davis Straits.
George Philip & Sons, 1889. [viii] + 301pp. + [i] + [x] adverts. 5 plates, 11 text ills., 4 colour folding maps, 8 maps in text. Fore-edge of leaves sl. spotted occasional intruding onto inner margins, ex.-libris Ann Savours Shirley with sm. label signature and several annotations, other ownership inscription crossed out, sl. spotting to title page, original gilt lettered brown cloth lettered and ruled in black, lightly soiled, corners sl. bumped, spine darkened and sl. bumped at head and tail.
¶ The World’s Great Explorers and Explorations.
¶ The World’s Great Explorers and Explorations.
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VOYAGE DANS LES MERS DU NORD. A Bord de la Corvette la Reine-Hortense.
Paris Michael Lèvy Frères ..., 1863. 2nd Ed. Sm. 4to. [8] + 536pp. 12 plates, vignette to title page and last leaf. French text. Light browning, prelims with closed tears sl. chipped and soiled, ‘C.E. Chojecki’ in pen to title page, ownership inscriptions to front f.e.p., with the signature and purchase information of Ann Savours Savour Shirley to front f.e.p., orange cloth, gilt lettered label to bumped spine.
¶ Presentation copy boldly inscribed to half title ‘A Mademoiselle Blain ... del Auteur Charles Edmond’. Edmund Franciszek Maurycy Chojecki (1822–1899) Polish journalist, playwright, novelist, poet and translator. Originally hailing from Warsaw, from 1844 he resided in France, where he wrote under the pen name Charles Edmond. First published in 1857. Arctic Bibliography 3141. ‘General account of the cruise of Prince Bonaparte from Scotland to Iceland, along the ice pack toward Jan Mayen, and then southwestward via Iceland to Cape Farewell, northward along the West Greenland coast as far as Godthaab, and return to Norway, Sweden and Denmark, via the Faeroes and Shetland Islands, June-Oct. 1856. Includes chapters describing each land visited its history and exploration.’
¶ Presentation copy boldly inscribed to half title ‘A Mademoiselle Blain ... del Auteur Charles Edmond’. Edmund Franciszek Maurycy Chojecki (1822–1899) Polish journalist, playwright, novelist, poet and translator. Originally hailing from Warsaw, from 1844 he resided in France, where he wrote under the pen name Charles Edmond. First published in 1857. Arctic Bibliography 3141. ‘General account of the cruise of Prince Bonaparte from Scotland to Iceland, along the ice pack toward Jan Mayen, and then southwestward via Iceland to Cape Farewell, northward along the West Greenland coast as far as Godthaab, and return to Norway, Sweden and Denmark, via the Faeroes and Shetland Islands, June-Oct. 1856. Includes chapters describing each land visited its history and exploration.’
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