Pictorial boards with shelf wear, previous owner's name in pencil on endpaper; matching dust jacket with light insect damage, wear and small tears to spine ends. A sweet little alphabet where each letter is represented by multiple objects, animals or persons. Illustrated in color throughout. Size: 8vo

Slim 4to, pp59 including 39 pages of specimens from books. Hardcover no dust jacket. Publishers black cloth binding with gilt titles to spine in good condition with a little shelf wear to top & tail of spine, a little bubbling to side of back board and a little marking to boards. Inside except for a little toning to end papers all pages in lovely near fine condition. Scarce.

1st English Edition,1st impression: xiii, (1), pages 15 to 265, map end papers, 45 tinted plates from photos, including frontispiece portrait. A very scarce first impression, which has no folding maps. The maps were not made in time for this issue, and therefore were only published with the second issue. Original covers with gilt titling to spine in price clipped dust jacket. Contents clean, minor spotting to end papers and prelims, original dust jacket has a few small pieces missing and has been repaired in the past, old Sellotape markings, new repairs are with archival quality tape. Lars Christensen made and/or sponsored several voyages to the Antarctic 1927-3. While primarily for whaling & sealing, Christensen had a strong interest in exploration, and much good work was done, including several aerial surveys, photography & meteorology. A number of important discoveries were also made. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 283. This book weighs over 1Kg and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1881 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this book is reprinted from a very old book there could be some missing or flawed pages but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs if any are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume not the whole set. If you wish to order a particular volume or all the volumes you can contact us. EXTRA 10 DAYS WOULD BE REQUIRED FOR PROCESSING AS LEATHER BOUND BOOKS ARE COMPLETELY HANDCRAFTED. Sewing binding for longer life where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 440 Title: An elementary treatise on mechanics for the use of the junior classes at the university and the higher classes in school with a collection of examples (1881) [Leatherbound] Author: Parkinson S.

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1911 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this book is reprinted from a very old book there could be some missing or flawed pages but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs if any are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume not the whole set. If you wish to order a particular volume or all the volumes you can contact us. EXTRA 10 DAYS WOULD BE REQUIRED FOR PROCESSING AS LEATHER BOUND BOOKS ARE COMPLETELY HANDCRAFTED. Sewing binding for longer life where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 152 Language: English Title: International incidents for discussion in conversation classes by L. Oppenheim. (1911) [Leatherbound] Author: Oppenheim L.