Search Results: Arctic from Attic Books

Ottawa: Joint Intelligence Bureau, 1948. Hardcover. ex library-fair. xv, 300 p. 26 cm. 40 maps. 265 b&w illustrations. Grey cloth with silver print. Number at top front, repeated on spine. Some soiling to cloth. Corners bumped and spine ends a bit worn. Ink number and notation on front endpaper. A bit of thumbing and small stains. Dampstain on text block edge and rear pastedown. Empty envelope inside rear cover, therefore folded map missing.

Ridgetown, ON: G.C. & H.C. Enterprises Limited, nd. Signed by author 1987. Softcover. Very good. 131 p. 23 cm. B&w illustrations. Paperback. A little soiling to white covers. Inscribed by author inside front cover.

Montreal: Mcgill-Queen's University Press, 1994. Hardcover. Good/Very good. xxviii, 403 p. 28 cm. 49 b&w and colour figures. Black cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Dampstain to jacket's lower rear edge. Some wrinkling and faint stains to lower edges of text block.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1988. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. xii, [2], 15-672 p. 25 cm.13 b& illustrations and 44 maps. Cloth in dustjacket.

Ottawa: Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies, 1987. Softcover. Very good +. Proceedings of a Symposium August 24-28, 1985 Banff, Alberta. xi, 653 p. 23 cm. Maps and figures. Softcover. A little wrinkling to spine. Papers about the natural realm, land use, conservation, national parks and protected areas.

1977. Softcover. Good. 31 p. per direction. 21 cm. 6 b&w illustrations each side. Stapled. Stain to bottom front corner and first pages.

Division of Mechanical Engineering, 1984. Softcover. Near fine. Unclassified. Division of Mechanical Engineering Report by DM-005. NRC No. 23594. v, 17 p. + fold-out figures. 28 cm. 8 fold-out figures at rear. Softcover. Topics: ship size; ice thickness and operating depth; available water depths; design collapse depth; configuration; escape; speed and power; port loading and unloading arrangments; prelimary layouts; etc.

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1852. Cloth Bound. Fair. 237 p. 13 cm. Engraved frontispiece. Cloth hardcover is worn with cracked hinges and bumped corners. Front hinge cracked internally but rear tape repaired. Front free endpaper torn out. Frontispiece very loose. Some spotting to first pages but most of book clean. Contents: voyages in search of a northeast passage; towards the North Pole; a northwest passage; Ross and Parry in search of a northwest passage; Ross's second voyage; recent voyages towards the North Pole; expeditions to the seas around Boothia; the Franklin expedition.

Allen Lane, 2019. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. 272 p. 24 cm. Colour photos in centre section. White hardcover in dustjacket. Small dents in lower edges. Some faint marks to white covers. Signed by author.

Ottawa: National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1985. Softcover. Fine. Publications in Natural Sciences 5. vi, 67 p. 26 cm. 6 tables and 25 b&w figures. Stapled card covers.

Ottawa: Dept. of the Interior, 1934. Softcover. Very good. 166 p. 25 cm. B&w illustrations. Fold-out partial maps. Blue paper covers. Slight chipping to spine ends and a slight wrinkle in upper spine.

LCMSDS Press of Wilfrid Laurier University, 2010. Softcover. Near fine. x, 386 p. 23 cm. B&w illustrations. Paperback.

Baltimore: Dennis Rawlins, 2020. Booklet. Fine. 70 p. 22 cm. Stapled yellow card covers. The International Journal of Scientific History. Issue about the "Peary Conspiracy."

Ottawa: Canada Department of Mines; National Museum of Canada, 1928. Paperback. Very good. Bulletin No. 53. Biological Series, No. 15. 143 p. 25 cm. Fold-out map and 7 b&w plates. Brown paperback. Slight wear, including spine, and soiling to covers. Faint dampstains and wrinkling to plates at rear. Description of physical features, mammals, birds, fish, insects, pteropoda, fungi, fossils. Index.

London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 371 p. 25 cm. 2 maps, 8 colour plates, 99 b&w illustrations. Quarter beige cloth with brown cloth. Rebacked with original spine reapplied. Top edge gilt. Two minor stains to top of front cover, corners worn. Some light foxing. Contributions by J.W. Gregory, A. Trevor-Battye and E. J. Garwood. Title continues: "Being an Account of an Island Journey of Exploration and Survey, with Description of Several Mountain Ascents, of Boat Expeditions in Ice Fjord, of a Voyage to North-east-Land, the Seven Islands, down Hinloopen Strait, nearly to Wiches Land, and into most of the Fjords of Spitsbergen, and of an almost complete circumnavigation of the main Island." The author spent the summers of 1896 and 1897 exploring the interior of West Spitsbergen. This volume is an account of the first season's voyage to the island and the trips there during which Conway, Gregory, Trevor-Battye, Garwood and H. E. Conway crossed overland from Advent Bay to… Read More

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1960. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. xi, [3], 304 p. 32 cm. B&w illustrations and maps. Quarter yellow cloth with black paper boards. Mylar-covered dustjacket. Moderate wear and soiling to jacket. Foreword by Vilhjalmur Stefansson. "the Incredible Story of the Dirigible Italia - an international Tragedy That Has shadowed a Man and a Nation for Thirty Years."

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1833. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 444 p. 18 cm. Fold-out map at front and a title page vignette. 8 other b&w plates. Red cloth with gold impressing. From our As Is shelf. Spine much deteriorated with many chips. Corners bumped. Title continues: "From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. With Descriptive Sketches of the Natural History of the North American Regions. Wo which is added an appendix, containing remarks on a lte memoir of Sebastian Cabot, with a vindication of Richard Hakluyt."

London: William Heinemann, 1911. Hardcover. Good. 415 p. 27 cm. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and numerous b&w illustrations. Blue cloth with black and gold impressing. Corners bumped, edges worn, tears in spine ends. Front hinge cracking internally. Ink signature on front pastedown. Roughened text block edges. Topics include Wineland the Good, the Fortunate Isles, Eskimo and Skraeling, decline of the Norse settlements in Greenland, Norwegians in the White Sea, whaling and sealing, the north in maps of the Middle Ages, John Cabot, Portuguese discoveries.

Calgary: Archaeological Association, Dept. of Archaeology, 1974. First Printing. Softcover. Very good. iii, 262 p. 22 cm. B&w maps and figures. Blue card covers. Signature on front cover. Spine faded. Ink check marks in Contents. Errata labels inserted.

London: Sir Richard Phillips, 1821. Fair. iv, 124 p. 23 cm. 3 engraved plates. Disbound. Plates, title and Preface detached. Foxing. Map missing.