Category: Exploration

Apollo-Soyuz Pamphlets 1-9 (complete) together with The Soyuz-Apollo Project, Moscow 1975

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Washington, Moscow, U.S. Government Printing Office, Novosti Press Agency : 1975-1977

Seller ID: 290

1970s HISTORIC PAMPHLETS FROM APOLLO-SOYUZ PROJECT (NASA) AND SOYUZ-APOLLO PROJECT (USSR), WITH SIGNED PHOTO OF COSMONAUT. Complete set of 9 (nine) 10 1/2 inches-tall Apollo-Soyuz Pamphlets, color printed paper covers, 30-75 pages each, unmarked, very good. 8 1/2 inches tall Soyuz-Apollo Project pamphlet, color printed paper covers, 32 pages, unmarked, very good; laid in 4 1/2 x 7 inch color photo of 2 Soviet Cosmonauts, signed by Cosmonaut Kubasov, dated 6 July, 76. HEAVY ITEM--INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING COSTS.
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My Flight to the North Pole

By: Byrd, R. E.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Leipzig, B. G. Teubner : 1931

Seller ID: 876

1931 ABRIDGED ILLUSTRATED ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF BYRD'S EXPLORATION OF THE NORTH POLE PUBLISHED FOR GERMAN SCHOOL CHILDREN DURING HITLER'S RISE TO POWER--ANNOTATED IN GERMAN. 7 3/4 inches tall softcover booklet, printed paper covers, frontis map of north pole, 52 pp, 9 photo text figures, covers soiled, spine frayed, tears to edges of title page, marginal notes in German. tissue repair to closed tear p 15. Published in the series Teubners Neusptachliche Lekture fur sechsstufige lehranstalten und die mittelklassen von vollanstalten [Teubner's New Language reading for six-level teaching institut...
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Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-1899. Volume I. Narrative of the Expeditions; Geography of Southern Patagonia

By: Hatcher, J. B. and Scott, William B.

Price: $375.00

Publisher: Stuttgart, Princeton University : 1903

Seller ID: 1102

FOLIO VOLUME NARRATIVE OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY EXPEDITIONS TO PATAGONIA, 1896-1899, BY J B HATCHER, FUNDED BY J P MORGAN, ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES. 13 inchs tall folio volume, printed paper binding, photographic frontis with tissue guard, xvi, 314 pp, 50 figures on heavy paper with tissue guards, color double-page map of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Narrative of the Expeditions; Geography of Southern Patagonia: The Plains, The Mountains, The Rivers of Patagonia, The Lakes of Southern Patagonia; The Coast of Patagonia; Climate; The Native Indian Tribes, Settlement...
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Memoire sur une nouvelle espece de gymnote de la Riviere de la Madeleine BOUND TOGETHER WITH Observations sur l'anguille electrique (Gymnotus electricus, Lin.) du Nouveau Continent, EXTRACT FROM Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent, fait en 1799-1804, etc

By: Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von

Price: $300.00

Publisher: [Paris], : 1806

Seller ID: 1226

FIRST EDITION--HUMBOLDT'S FAMOUS DESCRIPTION OF "HORSE FISHING" ELECTRIC EELS AT RASTRO DE ABAXO, BOUND WITH ENGRAVING DEMONSTRATING THE ELECTRIC ORGAN. 25x33 cm folio extract in gray paper wraps, ink inscribed title and small handstamp "Library or R. Harry, Jr." to cover. Memoire sur une Nouvelle Espece de Gymnote de la Riviere de la Madeleine by M. de Humboldt pp. (46-) 48, BOUND WITH Observations sur L'Anguille Electrique (Gymnotus electricus, Lin.) du Nouveau Continent, pp. (49-) 92 by M. de Humboldt, hand-colored engraved plate. Wrappers soiled; a corner creased; 2 marginal tears to wra...
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Biology of the Antarctic Seas Volumes I, II, III (complete)

By: Lee, Milton O., Llano, George A. and Schmitt, Waldo L.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Washington DC, American Geophysical Union : 1964 - 1967

Seller ID: 908

1960S SCARCE COMPLETE SET OF BIOLOGY OF THE ANTARCTIC SEAS, PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION IN THE ANTARCTIC RESEARCH SERIES. Three volumes 10 3/4 inches tall, publisher's blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, Vol. I, ix, 109 [76] pp; Vol. II, xi, 278 pp; Vol. III, vii, 261 pp; many figures, tables [some folding], maps and plates (some color); light wear to covers, corners bumped, institutional handstamp to bottom edge, bindings tight, pocket and sign-out sheet front endpapers, no other library marks, texts clean and bright, very good. The Antarctic Research Series serves workin...
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Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries; and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864

By: Livingstone, David and Livingstone, Charles

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers : 1866

Seller ID: 335

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF CLASSIC ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF AFRICAN EXPLORATION BY THE LIVINGSTONE BROTHERS. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, original brown pebbled cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 2-page frontis wood engraving of bird's eye view of the great cataracts of the Zambesi, plus 35 full page illustrations throughout the text, and large folding map at rear. Corners bumped, edges worn, spine faded, edges soiled, pages age-toned but crisp and unmarked, map clean with closed tear at upper left corner, repaired on back with archival tape. Good+. DAVID LIVINGSTONE (1813 – 1873) was a Scottish...
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Category: Exploration

Apollo-Soyuz Pamphlets 1-9 (complete) together with The Soyuz-Apollo Project, Moscow 1975

My Flight to the North Pole

Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-1899. Volume I. Narrative of the Expeditions; Geography of Southern Patagonia

Memoire sur une nouvelle espece de gymnote de la Riviere de la Madeleine BOUND TOGETHER WITH Observations sur l'anguille electrique (Gymnotus electricus, Lin.) du Nouveau Continent, EXTRACT FROM Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent, fait en 1799-1804, etc

Biology of the Antarctic Seas Volumes I, II, III (complete)

Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries; and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864