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Antarctic Bibliography

19thC
Sir J D Hooker : Flora Antarctica
(1844-7)
Sir James Clark Ross : Ships 'Erebus' & 'Terror' - Return to an Address of the Honorouble House
of Commons, dated 26 August, 1841
(1841 London)
Offered in 1998 for £2600
Sir James Clark Ross : A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern
and Antarctic Regions 1839-1843
(1847 Murray 36/-) - 2 vols
Offered in 1996 at £1150 & £1500 in 1998
Charles Tomlinson : Winter in the Arctic Regions and Summer in the Antarctic Regions
(1872 SPCK, London)
Robert McCormick : Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas and Round the World
(1884 Sampson Low) - 2 vols
Offered in 1998 for £1200
W G Burn Murdoch : From Edinburgh to the Antarctic - An Artist's Notes & Sketches during the
Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1891-3
(1894 Longman Green)
Offered in 1998 for £200
Henrik J Bull : The Cruise of the "Antarctic" to the South Polar Regions
(1896 Edward Arnold)
Jules Verne : An Antarctic Mystery
(1898) - Novel

1900
Karl Fricker : The Antarctic Regions
(1900 Swann Sonnenschein) (1900 Macmillan NY)
Harold Edward Gorst : Furthest South - An Account of the Startling Discovery made
by the Wise Antarctic Expedition
(1900)
F A Cook : Through the First Antarctic Night 1898-9 : A Narrative of the Voyage of the "Belgica"
(1900 Heinemann)
Offered in 1998 for £350
(1900 Doubleday & McLure)
Offered in 1993 for £550

1901-1903
C E Borchgrevink : First on the Antarctic Continent, being an Account of the British
Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900
(1901 Newnes)
(Ed) George Murray : The Antarctic Manual for the Use of the Expedition of 1901
(1901 RGS, London)
Offered in 1999 for £220
Edwin Swift Balch : Antarctica
(1902 Allen Lane & Scott, Phila)
Offered in 1999 for £225

1904-1905
Albert B Armitage : Two Years in the Antarctic - Being a Narrative of the British National
Antarctic Expedition
(1905 Edward Arnold)
Offered in 1998 for £900
H R Mill : The Siege of the South Pole : The Story of Antarctic Exploration
(1905 Alston Rivers)
(1905 Stokes, NY)
Dr N Otto G Nordenskiold : Antarctica or Two Years Amongst the Ice of the South Pole
(1905 Macmillan, NY/Hurst & Blackett, London) - with J G Anderson
Offered in 1996 at £355 & 1998 for £480

1906-1910
R N Rudmose Brown : The Voyage of the "Scotia" : Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration
in Antarctic Seas
(1906 Blackwood, Edinburgh) - et al
Offered for £360 in 1999
William S Bruce : Life in the Antarctic
(1907 Dodge NY)
(Ed) Sir Ernest Shackelton : The South Polar Times (1907-14 Smith Elder) - 3 vols. 250 et al
C Reginald Ford : Antarctica : Leaves from a Diary Kept on Board an Exploring Vessel
(1908 Whitcomb & Tombs, Christchurch)
Sir Ernest Shackelton : The Heart of the Antarctic : Being the Story of the British
Arctic Expedition 1907-9
(1909 Heinemann)
Offered in 1996 for £290
(1909 Lippincott) - 2 vols
(1909 Heinemann) - 300 signed by the members of the Expedition. 3 vol De Luxe Edition
(1910 Heinemann. Popular Edition)
J M Hulth : Swedish Arctic and Antarctic Explorations 1758-1910
(1910 Almqvist & Wiksells, Stockholm)

1911-1912
Jean B Charcot : The Voyage of the Why Not ? in the Antarctic : The Journal of the 2nd
French Polar Expedition 1908-10
(1911 Hodder & Stoughton)
Sir Douglas Mawson : The Home of the Blizzard : Being the Account of the Australian
Antarctic Expedition 1911-14
(1915 Heinemann) - 2 vols
Offered in 1996 for £615
(1915 Lippincott) - 2 vols
Offered in 1996 for £480
(1931 Hodder & Stoughton, London) (1942 GPO, Sydney)
Roald : Amundsen : The South Pole - An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition 1910-12
(1912 Murray) (1912 Murray. 2nd Ed) - 2 vols
Offered in 1998 for £425
(1913 Keedick, NY) - 2 vols

1913-1915
Herbert G Ponting : With Captain Scott in the Antarctic, and Animal & Bird Life in the South
Polar Regions
(1913 Whittingham, London) - Cinema Lecture programme
James Murray : Antarctic Days : Sketches of the Homely Side of Polar Life
by Two of Shackleton's Men
(1913 Andrew Melrose, London) - with George Marston.
Offered in 1999 for £285 + 280 De Luxe, signed by Shackleton, Murray & Marston
Offered in 1998 for £1900
G M Levick : Antarctic Penguins : A Study of their Social Habits
(1914 Heinemann) (1914 McBride, NY)
John King Davis : With the Aurora in the Antarctic 1911-14
(1919 A Melrose, London)
Herbert G Ponting : The British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913
(1914 Fine Art Society)
Offered in 1999 for £480
Sir R E Priestley : Antarctic Adventure : Scott's Northern Party
(1914 Fisher Unwin)
Offered in 1996 at £325
(1915 Dutton)
Offered in 1996 at £255

1916-1920
Helen Wright : The Seventh Continent : A History of the Discovery of Antarctica
(1918 Richard Badger, Boston)
Sir Ernest Shackelton : South : The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-17
(1919 Heinemann)
Offered in 1996 for £290
(1920 Macmillan NY)
(1938 Heinemann)

1921-1922
Herbert G Ponting : The Great White South : Being an Account of Captain Scott's
South Pole Expedition
(1921 Duckworth)
Offered in 1999 for £450
(1922 Duckworth. 2nd Ed) (1922 McBride NY)
J M Wordie : Shackelton Antarctic Expedition 1914-17
(1921 Williams & Norgate, London)
Charles S Wright : British
(Terra Nova) Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 : Determinations of Gravity
(1921 Harrison, London)
Charles S Wright : British
(Terra Nova) Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 : Observations on the Aurora
(1921 Harrison)
Apsley Cherry-Garrard : The Worst Journey in the World : Antarctic 1910-1913
(1922 Constable) - 2 vols
Offered in 1998 for £950
(1923 Doran NY) - 2 vols
(1930 Dial Press NY) (1937 Chatto & Windus for the Author, London) - 1 vol
(1939 Constable) (1952 Chatto & Windus)

1923-1925
Charles S Wright : British
(Terra Nova) Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 : Physiography
of the Beardmore Glacier Region
(1923 Harrison, London)
Frank Debenham : The Physiography of the Ross Archipelago : British
(Terra Nova)
Expedition 1910-13
(1923 Harrison, London)
H R Mill : The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton
(1923 Heinemann)
Offered in 1999 for £300
(1923 Little Brown)
Frank Debenham : Report on the Maps & Surveys : British
(Terra Nova) Expedition 1910-13
(1923 Harrison, London)
Sir R E Priestley : British Terra Nova Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913
(1923 Harrison, London)
Henry G Lyons : British
(Terra Nova) Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 : Miscellaneous Data
(1924 Harrison, London)

1926-1930
Edward Kidson : British Antarctic Expedition 1907-9
(c1928 H J Green, Melbourne)
J Gordon Hayes : Antarctica : A Treatise on the Southern Continent
(1928 Richards Press, London)
Offered in 1998 for £275
Dr N Otto G Nordenskiold : The Geography of the Polar Regions, consisting of a General
Characterization of Polar Nature and a Regional Geography of the Arctic and Antarctic
(1928 Amer Geog Soc, NY)
Richard Byrd : Little America : Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic - The Flight to the South Pole
(1930 Putnam) - 1000 signed
Wolfgang L G Joerg : The Work of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition 1928-30
(1930 AGS, NY)
T Griffith Taylor : Antarctic Adventure and Research
(1930 Appleton NY)

1931-1935
A G Bennett : Whaling in the Antarctic
(1931 Blackwood, Edinburgh)
(1932 Henry Holt, NY)
L M Gould : Cold : The Record of an Antarctic Sledge Journey
(1931 Brewer, Warren & Putnam, NY)
J Gordon Hayes : The Conquest of the South Pole : Antarctic Exploration 1906-1931
(1932 Thornton Butterworth) (1933 Macmillan NY)
Harry Adams : Beyond the Barrier with Byrd : An Authentic Story of the Byrd Antarctic
Exploring Expedition
(c1932 Goldsmith, Chicago & NY. Reprint)
George Seaver : Edward Wilson of the Antarctic : Naturalist & Friend
(1933 John Murray)
(1937 Dutton NY)
B A Heimbinder : White Conquest : An Epic of Antarctica
(1934 PP in NY) - 270 signed
A J Villiers : Whalers of the Midnight Sun : A Story of Modern Whaling in the Antarctic Sea
(1934 Scribner)
James M Scott : The Polar Regions : An Anthology of Arctic & Antarctic Photographs
(1934 Chatto & Windus)
Richard Byrd : Antarctic Discovery : The Story of the 2nd Byrd Antarctic Expedition
(1935 Putnam NY) (1936 Putnam, London) - 500 signed
Lars Christensen : Such is the Antarctic
(1935 Hodder & Stoughton)

1936-1940
Erich Dautert : Big Game Hunting in Antarctica
(1937 Arrowsmith, Bristol)
Lorene K Fox : Antarctic Icebreakers
(1937 Doubleday Doran)
Lars Christensen : My Last Expedition to the Antarctic 1936-7
(1938 Johan Gryndt Tanum, Oslo)
William Lashly : The Diary : A Record of the Return Journey of the Last Supporting Party with
Capt Scott to the South Pole
(1938-9 Reading UP) - 75
Marthe Oulie : Charcot of the Antarctic
(1938 Murray) (1939 Dutton NY)
George Seaver : Birdie Bowers of the Antarctic
(1938 John Murray)
Arctic Journeys : The Story of the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition 1934-5
(1938 Hodder & Stoughton) (1938 Farrar & Rinehart, NY)
Paul A Siple : The Seond Byrd Antarctic Expedition Botany
(1938 London) - et al
T W Bagshawe : Two Men in the Antarctic : An Expedition to Graham Land 1920-2
(1939 CUP)
E P Bayliss : Handbook & Index to Accompany a Map of Antarctica
(1939 L F Johnston, Canberra) - with J S Cumpston
W H Hobbs : The Discoveries of Antarctica within the American Sector
(1939 Amer Philosoph Soc, Phila)
George Seaver : Scott of the Antarctic : A Study in Character
(1940 John Murray)

1941-1950
W H Hobbs : Explorers of the Antarctic
(1941 House of Field, NY)
Thaddeus Bellingshausen : The Voyage of Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas 1819-21
(1945 Hakluyt Soc, London) - 2 vols
Offered in 1998 for £525
(1967 Kraus, NY) - 2 vols
Charles F Laseron : South with Mawson : Reminiscences of the Australiasian
Antarctic Expedition 1911-14
(1947 Harrap)
Frank Hurley : Shackleton's Argonauts : A Saga of the Antarctic Ice-Packs
(1948 Angus & Robertson)
J H H Pirie : Antarctic Posts and Stamps
(1949 Stamp Collecting, London)
Finn Ronne : Antarctic Conquest : The Story of the Ronne Expedition 1946-8
(1949 Putnam)
W A Scholes : Fourteen Men : The Story of the Australian Antarctic Expedition to Heard Island
(1949 Cheshire, Melbourne) (1951 Allen & Unwin)
Alfred Saunders : A Camera in Antarctica
(1950 Winchester, London)

1951-1955
E W Hunter Christie : The Antarctic Problem : An Historical & Political Study
(1951 Allen & Unwin)
(Ed) J H Roscoe : Antarctic Bibliography (1951 GPO, Washington)
Niall Rankin : Antarctic Isle : Wildlife in South Georgia
(1951 Collins)
Antarctic Bibliography
(1951 Naval Photographic Interpretation Center, Washington)
Frank Debenham : In the Antarctic : Stories of Scott's Last Expedition
(1952 Murray)
(Ed) Frank A Simpson : The Antarctic Today : A Mid-Century Survey (1952 NZAS)
W A Scholes : Seventh Continent : Sage of Australasian Exploration in Antarctica 1895-1950
(1953 Allen & Unwin)
John Giaver : The White Desert : The Official Account of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic
Expedition
(1954 Chatto & Windus)
Mario Marret : Seven Men among the Penguins : An Antarctic Adventure
(1955 Harcourt Brace)
E W K Walton : Two Years in the Antarctic
(1955 Lutterworth)

1956-1960
Jennie Darlington : My Antarctic Honeymoon : A Year at the Bottom of the World
(1956 Doubleday NY)
Margery & James Fisher : Shackleton and the Antarctic
(1957 Barrie & Jenkins)
(1958 Houghton Mifflin)
Phillip Law : ANARE - Australia's Antarctic Outposts
(1957 OUP, Melbourne) - with J Bechervaise
Sir Edmund Hillary : The New Zealand Antarctic Expedition
(1958 Stiles, Nelson)
Sir Vivian Fuchs : The Crossing of Antarctica
(1958 Cassell) (1959 Little Brown)
- with Edmund Hillary
Sir Vivian Fuchs : Antarctic Adventure : The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-8
(1959 Cassell) - Stuart Tresilian
Frank Debenham : Antarctica : The Story of a Continent
(1959) (1959 Jenkins. 2nd Imp)
P L Mitterling : America in the Antarctic to 1840
(1959 Illinois UP)
Paul A Siple : 90 Degrees South : The Story of the American South Pole Conquest
(1959 Putnam, NY)
M H Albert : The Long White Road : Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Adventures
(1960 Lutterworth)
Emil Schulthess : Antarctica : A Photographic Survey
(1960 Simon & Schuster) (1961 Collins)

1961-1963
Antarctic Command
(1961 Bobbs Merrill)
Robert A Swan : Australia in the Antarctic
(1961 Melbourne UP)
Roger A Caras : Antarctica : Land of Frozen Time
(1962 Chilton Press, Phila)
P Trese : Penguins Have Square Eyes : An Antarctic Adventure
(1962 Holt, Rinehart & Winston)
A Grenfell Price : The Winning of the Australian Antarctic : Mawson's Banzare Voyages 1929-31
(1962 Angus & Robertson, Sydney)
J Coleman-Cooke : Discovery II in the Antarctic
(1963 Odhams Press)
Leslie B Quartermain : Two Huts in the Antarctic
(1963 Owen, Wellington)

1964-1965
Leslie B Quartermain : South from New Zealand : An Introduction to Antarctica
(1964 Owen, Wellington)
A S Helm : Antarctica : The Story of the New Zealand Party of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition
(1964 Owen, Wellington) - with J H Miller
(Ed) Sir R E Priestley : Antarctic Research : A Review of British Scientific
Achievement in Antarctica
(1964 Butterworth) - et al
(Ed) M O Lee : Biology of the Antarctic Seas (1964 American Geophysical Union)
John Grierson : Challenge to the Poles : Highlights of Arctic & Antarctic Aviation
(1964 Foulis)
Paquita Mawson : Mawson of the Antarctic - The Life of Sir Douglas Mawson
(1964 Longmans)
Graham Billing : South : Man and Nature in Antarctica - A New Zealand View
(1965 Hodder & Stoughton) - with Guy Mannering
J M Dukert : This is Antarctica
(1965 Coward McCann, NY)
(Ed) T Hatherton : Antarctica (1965 Methuen)
Walker Chapman : Antarctic Conquest : The Great Explorers in Their Own Words
(1965 Bobbs-Merrill)
Richard S Lewis : A Continent for Science : The Antarctic Adventure
(1965 Secker & Warburg)
(1966 Viking NY)

1966-1970
Harold Tilman : Mostly Mischief - Voyages to the Arctic & to the Antarctic
(1966 Hollis & Carter)
Edward A Wilson : Diary of the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic Regions 1901-4
(1966 Blandford Press)
Walker Chapman : The Loneliest Continent : The Story of Antarctic Exploration
(1967 Jarrolds)
Leslie B Quartermain : South to the Pole : The Early History of the Ross Sea
Sector, Antarctica
(1967 OUP, London)
Brian Roberts : Edward Wilson's Birds of the Antarctic
(1967 Blandford Press)
J Pirrit : Across West Antarctica
(1967 John Smith, Glasgow)
Wally Herbert : A World of Men : Exploration in Antarctica
(1968 Eyre & Spottiswoode) (1969)
(Ed) A R Ellis : Under Scott's Command : Lashly's Antarctic Diaries (1969 Gollancz)
Eleanor Honnywill : The Challenge of Antarctica
(1969 Methuen)
H G R King : The Antarctic
(1969 Blandford)
Sir Ernest Shackelton : The Heart of the Antarctic
(1969 Greenwood Press) - 2 vols
William Lashly : Under Scott's Command : Lashly's Antarctic Diaries
(1969 Gollancz)
(Ed) M W Holdgate : Antarctic Ecology (1970 Academic Press, London & NY) - 2 vols

1971-1975
K J Bertrand : Americans in Antarctica 1775-1948
(1971 Amer Geog Soc)
Leslie B Quartermain : New Zealand and the Antarctic
(1971 Shearer, Wellington)
Edward A Wilson : Diary of the Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic 1910-12
(1972 Blandford)
Ian Cameron : Antarctica : The Last Continent
(1974 Cassell) (1974 Little Brown)
L J Halle : The Sea and the Ice : A Naturalist in Antarctica
(1974 Michael Joseph)
Charles Neider : Edge of the World : Ross Island Antarctica
(1974 Doubleday, NY)
(Ed) Ann Savours : Scott's Last Expedition through the Antarctic Camera of Herbert Ponting
(1974 Sidgwick & Jackson) (1975 Praeger, NY)

1976-1980
David Lewis : Ice Bird : The First Single-Handed Voyage to Antarctica
(1976 Norton, NY)
Sir Vivian Fuchs : Scientific Research in Antarctica
(1977 Royal Society, London) - with R M Laws
Elizabeth Chipman : Australians in the Frozen South - Living & Working in Antarctica
(1978 Nelson, Melbourne)
Christopher Furse : Elephant Island : An Antarctic Expedition
(1979 Nelson, London)
David Lewis : Voyage to the Ice : The Antarctic Expedition of 'Solo'
(1979 Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney)
Finn Ronne : Antarctica, My Destiny : A Personal History by the Last of the Great Polar Explorers
(1979 Hastings House, NY)
Lisle A Rose : Assault on Eternity, Richard E Byrd & the Exploration of Antarctica 1946-7
(1980 Naval Inst Press, Annapolis)
Sydney A Spence : Antarctic Miscellany : Books, Periodicals & Maps relating to the Discovery
& Exploration of Antarctica
(1980 Simper, London) - 1000

After 1981
Leslie B Quartermain : Antarctica's Forgotten Men
(1981 Millwood Press, Wellington)
R Adams : Voyage Through the Antarctic
(1982 Allen Lane)
M J Ross : Ross in the Antarctic : The Voyages of James Clark Ross in HM's Ships
Erebus & Terror 1839-43
(1982 Caedmon, Whitby)
Tryggve Gran : The Norwegian with Scott : Tryggve Gran's Antarctic Diary 1910-1913
(1984 National Maritime Museum)
Sir C R Markham : Antarctic Obsession : The British National Antarctic Expedition
1901-4
(1986 Bluntisham, London)
Prof. G E Fogg : The Explorations of Antarctica
(1990 Cassell) - with D Smith
Sara Wheeler : Terra Incognita : Travels in Antarctica
(1996 Cape)