Bernier j e captain (9 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Zustand: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. FIRST PRINTING of First Edition 1984. Original green cloth with gilt lettering spine and small gilt decoration lower spine. The book has minor soiling covers, some puckering of the cloth near the spine areas, some cloth puckering lower covers (mainly near middle of bottom rear cover), no owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, a little splitting rear inside hinge (about 6cm but hinge quite strong), solid binding. The book measures 242mm tall x 163mm and has 529 pages, many b/w photos and illustrations, 11 maps and charts (several historical, 4 are folding), index. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.…

Zustand: Very Good. 24cm by 16cm, xxix, 529pp, illustrated, folding maps in near fine condition, light staining to covers, unmarked.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 1939. 409pp. Very mild shelfwear. Many illustrations. I note every flaw I find, so buy with confidence.

407 pp. Octavo. Illustrated buff coloured paper wrappers. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates, mostly taken from photographs. A very small, closed tear near the spine on the front wrap; some creasing to the bottom corner of the back wrap. Slight slant to the binding. (The book was put together more like a mass market paperback!) Otherwise, a clean attractive copy of a scarce book. AB 1458. An autobiography with chapters on the Canadian Arctic expeditions under Captain Bernier's command on the Canadian government steamship "Arctic". With the bookplate of Canadian polar collector, Andrew Taylor and the inscription of Ann Shirley stating she bought the book from Colin Bull in January 1998.…

Zustand: In good condition. Original full brown cloth, flat gilt spine., Size : 4to, With profuse black and white illustrations.

(Ottawa, Dept. of Marine and Fisheries, 1911). L-8vo. [viii],161 pp. With 87 photographs, 3 sketches, folding map of Arctic Bay, Baffin Island; folding map of route of Lavoie and party on Baffin Land; and large folding map ((60x50 cm.) of 'surveys and discoveries in the arctic regions, with additions and changes to 1911 on coast of Baffin Island'. Green cloth with gilt lettering. (library copy from the University of Cape Town, with small sticker on spnine, ex-libris and small stamp on title) Joseph Elzéar Bernier (1852-1934) was a Canadian mariner. "From 1904 to 1911, he explored the Arctic Archipelago on annual voyages in his ship the CGS Arctic and officially claimed the islands for Canada." (Wikipedia). The Inuit fondly called him Kapitaikallak, 'stout, little captain'. Most photographs show local people, and are among the earliest pictures of the Inuit.…