Authors starting with Q from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Chicago:: The University of Chicago Press,. 1913.. Good. 8vo, 480pp, b&w frontis, b&w illus throughout, b&w folding map, Appendices I - IX, Bibliography and Index. Black cloth cover with gilt title on front; gilt title on black spine. Insect damage to back cover hinge well and back cover. Internally lightly toned. Inside front hinge is starting. ... more information

Washington DC:: American Association for the Advancement of Science,. 1971.. Hardcover. Publication 93, Washington. 8vo, xv, 768pp. Vgc dj with slt. edgewear. The Symposium of the 1968 meeting with 46 contributors on all aspects of Antarctic life. ... more information

Washington DC:: American Association for the Advancement of Science,. 1971.. Hardcover. Publication 93, xv,768pp .vgc dj with slt. edgewear. The Symposium of the 1968 meeting with 46 contributors on all aspects of Antarctic life. ... more information

Washington DC:: Amer. Assoc. for the Advancement of Science,. 1971.. Hardcover. Publ. no. 93. (xvi) 768pp, ills. throughout, folding map & the Geographical Society folding map of Antarctic, 1970, in envelope. Very good in slt. ruffled dj. Includes intro. to Antarctic research, biology, ocean dynamics, Gondawanaland. ... more information

Washington DC:: Amer. Assoc. for the Advancement of Science,. 1971.. Hardcover. Publ. no. 93. (xvi) 768pp, ills. throughout, folding map & the Geographical Society folding map of Antarctic, 1970, in envelope. Very good in slt. ruffled dj. Includes intro. to Antarctic research, biology, ocean dynamics, Gondawanaland. ... more information

Buenos Aires:: Estudio de la Antar,. 1950.. Paperback. 8vo, 210pp, ills, paper wrappers, good. ... more information

London:. 1947.. Wraps. 8vo, 91pp, b&w ills. Tan wrappers with title in black at front cover. Front cover slt dusty. Internally, top of early pages toned, o/w very good. ... more information

New York:: N. Tibbals and Co... First American edition. Hardcover. Quarles was a seventeenth century English poet, whose Emblems was first published in 1635. Illustrated by Charles Bennett and W. Harry Rogers. Each full-page emblem design features an ornate decorative border framing a central illustration; the first emblem features a bizarre snake encircling a heart with an apple in its mouth. 8vo, b&w frontis, 321 pp, all edges gilt, b&w illus throughout. Brown cloth covers with black floral decora... more information

London:: Oxford University Press,. 1967.. Hardcover. Royal 8vo, xx, 481pp, illustrations and two maps. One folding map of Coastal Area from Victoria Land to Queens Maud Range. With d/j. Spence 949. The Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica was / is a staging post for many of the South Pole expeditions. This book has an in-depth look at at the settlement, exploration and physical attributes of the Ross Sea. ... more information

Wellington:: R.E. Owen,. 1964.. Paperback. 78pp, b&w plates + foldout map w d/j, paper wrappers. Spence 947. New Zealand's involvement in the Antarctic. ... more information

Wellington:: Government Printer,. 1971.. First edition. Hardcover. xix, 269pp. ills. and 4 folding maps (one large)original green cloth, dust jacket . Very Good condition. With d/j Spence 950. New Zealand's history in the Antarctic. ... more information

Wellington:: Government Printer, R.E. Owen,. 1963.. First edition. Paperback. 85pp, b & w ills, maps, paper wrappers. Spence 946. History behind 6 explorer's hut in the Antarctic. ... more information

Wellington:: Milwood Press,. 1981.. Hardcover. 192 pp. Ten of the lesser known explorers of Antarctica: Bruce, Royds, Lashly, Colbeck, "The Prof", "Atch", Campbell, Richards, Cheetham, Paton. Hardback w d/j, vgc. ... more information

London:: Oxford University Press,. 1967.. Hardcover. Very good. Tall 8vo, (xxi) 481 pp., 26 pp ills., 3 maps and maps on endpapers. Original cream cloth, with gilt title at black spine label, very good. Spence 949. ... more information

Wellington:: R.E. Owen,. 1964.. Paperback. 78pp, b&w plates + foldout map. Pp wrapper w/ photo. Spence 947. New Zealand's involvement in the Antarctic. ... more information

New York:: Abingdon Press,. 1919.. Later printing. A lovely period piece on natural history and God's creation, beautiful illustrated with b&w photographs. Orig. green decorated buckram, with decoration of a landscape printed in green, cream & rust, gilt titles. Lge 8vo, 232pp, silk page marker Slt. mark on front board o/w a very nice copy. ... more information

New York:: McGraw Hill,. 1983.. Hardcover. xiv, 299pp. ills and maps in text. Original cloth backed blue boards and dust jacket. A study of issues facing Antarctica. With d/j, vgc. ... more information

London:: Cassell,. 1905.. Hardcover. Adventure stories, from The Charge of the Light Brigade to the Wreck of the Kent. 4to, vi, color frontis, b&w illus throughout. Blue cloth covers with dark yellow title at pictorial front cover. Dark yellow title at blue cloth spine with decorative element of Native American weapons. Spine rubbed at base. Internally, ffep lacking, inner hinges wobbly, o/w very good. ... more information

Quin, Tarella. Gum Tree Brownie and other Faerie Folk of the Never-Never. George Robertson, Melbourne nd, ca. 1910, 2nd edition. Oblong 8vo, 184pp, illustrated throughout by Ida Rentoul, later Outhwaite. Orig. orange cloth decorated with fairy & spider design in red, black and white. Slt. foxing on early prelims, one page edges expertly repaired. Very slightly marked but otherwise a very tight, clean copy. Early example of her work. ... more information

New York:: The Christian Herald Bible House,. 1912.. Good +. The Strange Adventures of Captain Quinton. Being a Truthful Record of the Experiences and Escapes of Robert Quinton during his Life Among the Cannibals of the South Seas. 8vo, b&w frontis, 486pp, ads (iv). Decorative dark green cloth cover with white title above a remarkable illustration of a deep sea diver in the clutches of a giant octopus. Decorative spine with white title. Spine is rubbed at top and base; there is a small tear at top of s... more information