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Icebound in Antarctica – David Lewis and Mimi George

Published by Heinemann in Australia a first edition 1987. Octavo, 242 pages with many great colour photographs by Mimi George. Very good like new condition.

In 1982 David Lewis and his partner Mimi George and four others sailed to the Antarctic in the “Dick Smith Explorer” … it got tricky and they got well and truly stuck

Ice everywhere

$30.00

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Schooner Integrity – Frank Melville -1979

Published by Seafarers Books, London in 1979 a first printing. Octavo, 169 pages nicely illustrated with photographic images. Very good condition of quite a sought after book.

The Integrity was built near Slocum’s Spray at Dartmouth, New England. She sailed the Atlantic and back and through a strange chain of events ended up on the bottom at Turks Island. The author helped raise her and towed her to Cat Island. Here he recounts the full story.

Intriguing true maritime mystery.

$30.00

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Cape Horn to the Pacific – Raymond Rydell – 1952

Published by the University of California Press. A first edition 1952. Octavo, 213 pages, with map. Very good condition.

Subtitled the Rise and Decline of an Ocean Highway. A chronological progression regarding the “Horn” with a focus on a US perspective.. Magellan and Cook; the Old China Trade; Whaling; Missionaries; Navy; Forty-Niners; Clipper era etc

The Horn analysed …

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Beyond Cape Horn – Charles Neider

Published by Sierra, San Francisco in 1980. First edition, octavo, 387 pages with enpaper maps and nice illustrations, mainly coloured photographic images. A little ageing to the dust jacket, overall very clean inside.

In the summer of 1977 Charles Neider made his third trip south of Cape Horn to the Antarctic visiting Ross Island, McMudo sound, Wright and Victoria valleys etc. Also the author intermingles Magellan and Drake and their passages around the Horn and Cook and others who sailed so close and Scoot and Amundsen and the tragedy and success.

Well beyond Cape Horn

$30.00

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Polar Item – Scott Centenary (1912 – 2012) – Christie’s Sale

One of the collectable Christies/ Bonham Polar Sale Catalogues.

Christies Travel, Science and Natural History Catalogue with a special emphasis on the Antarctic and the Scott Expeditions. Quarto, 60 pages illustrated to the expected impeccable standard.

Some exceptional travel items catalogued with a good Australian and Pacific content. Includes forty pages of unique Antarctic items that will make any enthusiast salivate.

Our favourites … Mawson’s specimen boxes, Shackleton’s sledge harness, letters from Apsley Cherry-Garrard to his mother (“I sleep under Bowers. It is going to be a very warm hut and we live very well here”), Ponting’s best photographs and Scott’s marching compass. Well we like it all really. We all missed the boat on this one!

Unique Polar items and other travel delicacies

$60.00

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The Proud Admiral – 19th Century Oil on Board

A good sized oil painting 60cm by 47cm for the artwork.

A traditional 19th Century Naval pose of an Admiral, likely French, resting on his eye glass looking rather vaguely out at sea. Wearing his full naval regalia.

Painted on board, artist unknown. The oils showing a lot of craquelure. Mounted in a simple gilt frame.

Admiral contemplating his achievemenets!

$590.00

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