Search Results: the saga of the discovery by bernacchi l c

London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son, 1938. First Edition . Hardcover. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 240 pages, indexed and illustrated. The book has been recased in library binding: marbled boars and green spine strip with gilt title and gilt Dewey number on spine. It sufferes form the usual library markings:cancelled stamp on the front end paper; small libray one on the title page; the back end paper has another cancelled stamp, library stamp and handwritten accession number plus the remnants of a date due slip and finallly a library pocket on the back paste down. Themaps on the end paper are missing, lost by the rebind as is the one titled '"Discovery's " First Voyage'. The fold out map and the ones cealing with the seasonal distribution of whales are present. The book has been read but remains a clean, unmarked and solid copy, for indeed the one advantage of library binding is that it is indestructible. First edition, not recommended for… Read More

Blackie, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The boards are a bit marked and worn. Soundly bound. Some tanning and library markings.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Blackie & Son. Good with no dust jacket. (1938). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Some rubbing to ends of spine. A couple of 1/4" tears at head and tail of spine. 3/8" tear to cloth at head of spine. ; xv, [1], 240 pages + plates + folding map. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 213mm x 132mm. "The long line of explorers of the Southern Seas extends back into Spanish days, and the work was taken up by those large-hearted Elizabethans who did really feel the 'frost and cold, the ice and snow, and whales and all that move in the waters did bless the Lord and did magnify Him for ever'. The line passes down from sailing ships to steamships until to-day we stand with the aeroplane." - the opening paragraph. ; 8vo .

London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son, 1938. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. xv,240pp. Octavo in original dark blue cloth with front endpaper map and plates (both sides) from photos,etc, illustrations (maps) and 2 folding maps. Some light foxing, primarily to edges with some minor wear to title page, from removal of label? very good Spence 129. 1938

London & Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited, 1938. 240 pages in very good condition; outer edges and endpapers a little yellowed and foxed. With plates and maps. Front endpapers illustrated with a map; previous owner's name and address on the reverse of the ffep. Blue hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. Spine faded, small stains. Light wear on corners and edges. VG-. First Edition. Hardcover. VG-.

London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son, 1938 First Edition. Undetermined. good to very good. 1st Edition. xv,240pp. Octavo in original dark blue cloth with front endpaper map and plates (both sides) from photos,etc, illustrations (maps) and 2 folding maps. Covers slightly marked on the front and rear boards else a tight clean copy. Spence 129. Inscribed on the half title "Many Happy Returns " L." Oct, 1941. We believe this to be Bernacchi's handwriting. 1938

London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son, 1938. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. xv,240pp. Octavo in original dark blue cloth with front endpaper map and plates (both sides) from photos,etc, illustrations (maps) and 2 folding maps. very good Spence 129. 1938

London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son, 1938. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. xv,240pp. Octavo in original dark blue cloth and worn dust jacket with front endpaper map and plates (both sides) from photos,etc., illustrations (maps) and 2 folding maps. Dust jacket missing large chunk at top of spine and smaller piece foot of spine. very good Spence 129. 1938

London: Blackie and Sons, 1938. First Edition. Near Fine. 8vo, [8.5x6in]; xv, [1], 240 pp., 24 plate leaves with 54 images and 5 sketches, 4 maps in text and 2 folding, bibliographical notes on members of Scott's 1901-04 Discovery expedition and index; Dark blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, black and white map on front end papers, all edges trimmed; Minimal shelf wear with slight bumping of corners, slight fading on upper front joint and top and bottom of spine, top text edge darken with age and dust, prior owner pencil marks on end papers, Steve Fossett bookplate on front end paper. [Rosove 37.A1, Taurus 129, Conrad p 111, Spence 129]. Louis Charles Bernacchi (1876-1942) was an Australian physicist, astronomer and Antarctic explorer. He was the magnetic and meteorological observer for Borchgrevink's Southern Cross expedition (1898-1900) that was the first to winter over at Cape Adare on the Antarctic continent. This expedition was the first of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration… Read More