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London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, first impression. Very good copy in dulled binding. xxii, 376pp, with errata slip tipped in at p.1; complete with colour frontis with captioned guard, folding coloured map, and illustrated with many drawings and photographs (including a panorama) and maps in the text. Contents in very good condition, page edges browning but otherwise undamaged (except for a 1mm indentation at the prelims), and some slight browning or foxing to margins of some plates, including the frontis. 1919 gift inscription on original ffep laid in. In the original navy cloth, corners bumped, decorated with the Endurance in gilt and with gilt lettering; rebacked, with the original spine laid down; clean and firm, but rubbed and very dulled on the front, and the print scarcely legible on the spine.

Price: £750.00

London: Faber and Faber, 2009. First edition, first printing. xii, 428pp, plus 8 pages of plates. Contents fresh, clean and unmarked, appears unread. In the original black cloth-textured binding lettered in silver, clean, bright and firm: corners sharp, spine ends blunted. In protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket with very minor knocks to spine ends, otherwise very fresh, bright and crisp. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust-jacket.

Price: £30.00

London, printed for Poole and Edwards (Successors to Scatcherd & Letterman), 1828. Apparently First Edition [*]. (viii), 355pp + (i) errata. No half-title. With frontis and eight plates, all but one being lithographs on india paper, mounted, and with tissue guards. Foxing to guards, mounts, and adjacent pages (including title page), very little to the pictorial surfaces (except the final plate, printed straight onto the page, which is very foxed). Contents otherwise good and clean. 8vo, in contemporary half calf with marbled boards. Binding firm but corners knocked, boards rubbed, joints and edges scuffed, gilt decoration to raised bands largely gone: nice gilt-on-crimson lettering-piece intact. Good copy. Scarce.[*There are references on COPAC to other copies of this book, also dated 1828, but with 'in 1826' in the title, and with W.Harrison Ainsworth as co-publisher: neither are present here.]

Price: £280.00

London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1859. First Edition. vi, (ii), 434pp, (4) + (ii), 24pp adverts; plus a frontis and seven other wood engravings (printed in sepia and tinted pale ochre and blue), all tissue-guarded, with maps and illustrations in the text, and a song on the four pages following the text. Half-title, plates, and pages adjacent to the plates have some foxing, and the plates have a bottom corner stain which encroaches slightly on the image Some text pages also have a stain to the bottom edge, but contents otherwise very clean. In the original green cloth decorated in gilt and in blind and lettered in gilt, professionally rebacked with original spine laid down. Spine slightly dulled, front slightly rubbed, a firm, attractive copy. VG.

Price: £460.00

Edinburgh & London: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1877. A New Edition. viii (plus a frontis double page map of the North Pole, and a contents leaf) followed by the other splendid 48 double-page maps, interleaved with blank spreads, wherein are set frequent index pages relating to the preceding few maps. The North Pole map has a small erratum quadrant tipped onto it amending the coastlines around the top of Greenland, and a small erratum rectangle serves the same purpose on map 41. Large folio (20 x 13ins / c.50.5 x 33.5cms), in the original binding of half black morocco gilt with 6 raised bands, bright and firm, the boards in pink fine pebble cloth with royal arms and ornate lettering in gilt, stained and faded. The first (1861) edition was described at the time by the Times as 'the best Atlas which has ever been published in this country', and, referring to the intervening period and the new information which he was striving to encompass in the present edition, Johnston says in the preface that 'during no previous equally short space of time have so many important discoveries and explorations been made'. Very Good+.

Price: £420.00

Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1901. First Edition. ix, (ii), 227pp, including a number of diagrams in the text, and with a fold-out colour map at the end of the book. With the faint stamp on the half-title of Ampthill Lending Library. Contents otherwise clean and fresh, with slight creasing of the upper corners. In new binding of Victorian red buckram, boards ruled in blind, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Original very worn but legible spine strip conserved on final blank, as is a spare lettering-piece for the spine. VG+. Very scarce.

Price: £250.00

Southampton: Printed at the Ordnance Survey Office, 1924. First edition. (4)[title, index, scales, and characteristics], followed by the 18 folios, + (3) index. The folios are double-page maps with wide borders, mounted on linen, alternating with blank openings. Several have small foldouts to extend the area covered. Erratum slip tipped in at title. Large landscape quarto (c.14 x 15.5ins / 35 x 40cms), in the original pink cloth boards with royal crest and decorative lettering in gilt, with later spine and corners all made good in a neutral (grey) cloth. The new upper leading corner to the front is slightly angled, having presumably been very eroded before repair. The contents are very clean and in good order, and the repaired binding is attractive and firm. Scarce. Very Good.

Price: £140.00