Aurora Australis

Surry Hills, NSW, Australia: Reader's Digest, 1985. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover with laminated pictorial boards, first edition, 1785gms, 319 pages, dark blue endpapers. The complete story of a unique continent: its history, wildlife, scientific discoveries and resources, richly illustrated with 900 paintings, drawings, maps, diagrams and a collection of rare… Read more about this item

Folio Society. 2021. Limited edition, No. 16 of 500 hand-numbered copies, quarto, pp.194, complete with the 11 illustrations by George Marston, quarter bound in calf with beechwood timber Venesta boards and stencilled inside the boards. Together with 'A Commentary', 16 pages printed letterpress on Munken paper in green wraps. Presented in a linen-covered dropover box, titled to spine and leather… Read more about this item

Sydney / London: Bay Books, 1988 F-/VG+. 4to. original brown boards gilt (paperstock toned, as usual) in dustwrapper (a trifle rubbed & sunned, some creasing to lowwer panel); pp. xxiv (last blank), unpaginated, with illustrations. A very good copy. [Not in Neate]. Contains an account of the first ascent of Mount Erebus by T.W. Edgeworth David.. Facsimile. Hard Cover. F-/VG+.… Read more about this item

Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing Ltd. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket. Jacket spine faded. 1988. Reprint. Brown hardback cloth cover. 260mm x 190mm (10" x 7"). xxiii, 186pp. The British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. Reproduction of the book produced in Antarctica. .

England: Airlife. 1988. Royal 8vo, pp. xxiv, (approx. 170) unpaginated,b/w ills., illustrated endpapers, original cloth boards, dustjacket. Previous owner's bookplate. Near-fine condition in near-fine d.j. Facsimile edition of the first book published in the Antarctic, from Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. Facsimile Edition. Boards.

Sydney, Bay Books, 1988.. xxiv+c.160pp. 4to. Original boards in dustwrapper. B&W illustrations. A very good copy.. Based on one of the few bound copies of the original `Aurora Australis' from the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-1909.

New Zealand: Seto Publishing. Good. Hardcover. 1988. 0 .

Airlife, 1988. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover.. Facsimile of first book printed and published in Antarctica. "Hand bound with twine, into covers of packing case and seal skin, only a very few copies of the Aurora Australis were produced.