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HOBBS, William Herbert Smithsonian Report for 1926) Smithsonian Institution Publication 2889) Cause of Earthquakes, Especially Those of the Eastern United States
US GPO, Washington, 1927,
HOBBS, William Herbert. The Cause of Earthquakes, Especially Those of the Eastern United States . Washington: US GPO, 1927. Pp. (2),257-277,(1). Illustrated. 8vo, stapled printed brown card covers. Reprinted from the Smithsonian Report for 1926, pages 257-277. Smithsonian Institution Publication no.2889. Minor spine browning, else vg. 20.00
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HOBBS, William Herbert HOBBS, William Herbert Exploring About the North Pole of the Winds.
Putnam's, 1930,
HOBBS, William Herbert. Exploring About the North Pole of the Winds. Decorations by the author; with 26 illustrations and maps. NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. Pp 376, including frontis. + [23] leaves of plates. Illustrated with maps to endpapers. 8vo, light blue cloth, black lettering to spine and upper board. Chapters : 1. The First Cruise to Greenland on the Morrissey; 2. In Camp on the Maligiakfjord; 3. The Motor-Canoe Swamped and the Rescue; 4. The Winds from the "Great Ice"; 5. Exploring the Upper Air; 6. The Summer Expedition to the Ice-Cap; 7. The Return on Forced Marches; 8. Again in Camp on the Maligiakfjord; 9. The Stormy Return Cruise on the Crippled Morrissey; 10. The Second Expedition to Greenland on the Disko; 11. Storm-Bound on the Walrus; 12. Building the Expedition Base on Mount Evans; 13. Reconnaissance; 14. The Second expedition to the Ice-Cap; 15. On the Ice-Cap and Back to Camp Lloyd; 16. Bangsted's Winter Expedition to the Ice-Cap; 17. TheThird Greenland Expedition; 18. The Relief of Carlson at Mount Evans; 19. Preparing for the Rockford Flyers; 20. Exploring in the Caribou Country; 21. The Search for Hassell and Cramer; 22. The Rescue; 23. Shipwrecked; 24. In Peril of Waters off the Greenland Coast; 25. Aboard the Tramp-Ship Fulton; 26. Carlson's Winter Dog-Sled Expedition; 27. Our Wireless Station's Activities; 28. The Closing of the Station. With appendix and index. Slightly slack, two small areas of discolouration to spine. light spotting to front cover. lower corners bumped, lightly frayed, ow vg. Very nice copy. 50.00
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HOBBS, William Herbert HOBBS, William Herbert Exploring About the North Pole of the Winds.
Putnam's, 1930,
HOBBS, William Herbert. Exploring About the North Pole of the Winds. Decorations by the author; with 26 illustrations and maps. NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. Pp 376, including frontis. + [23] leaves of plates. Illustrated with maps to endpapers. 8vo, light blue cloth, black lettering to spine and upper board. Chapters : 1. The First Cruise to Greenland on the Morrissey; 2. In Camp on the Maligiakfjord; 3. The Motor-Canoe Swamped and the Rescue; 4. The Winds from the "Great Ice"; 5. Exploring the Upper Air; 6. The Summer Expedition to the Ice-Cap; 7. The Return on Forced Marches; 8. Again in Camp on the Maligiakfjord; 9. The Stormy Return Cruise on the Crippled Morrissey; 10. The Second Expedition to Greenland on the Disko; 11. Storm-Bound on the Walrus; 12. Building the Expedition Base on Mount Evans; 13. Reconnaissance; 14. The Second expedition to the Ice-Cap; 15. On the Ice-Cap and Back to Camp Lloyd; 16. Bangsted's Winter Expedition to the Ice-Cap; 17. TheThird Greenland Expedition; 18. The Relief of Carlson at Mount Evans; 19. Preparing for the Rockford Flyers; 20. Exploring in the Caribou Country; 21. The Search for Hassell and Cramer; 22. The Rescue; 23. Shipwrecked; 24. In Peril of Waters off the Greenland Coast; 25. Aboard the Tramp-Ship Fulton; 26. Carlson's Winter Dog-Sled Expedition; 27. Our Wireless Station's Activities; 28. The Closing of the Station. With appendix and index. Cocked, spine and section of upper board sunned to beige, lower corners bumped, bookplate, pages yellowing, small abrasion to pp 145, ow vg. 40.00
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PEARY, Robert E.). HOBBS, William Herbert HOBBS, William Herbert HOBBS, William Herbert Peary. 1st Edition, presentation copy signed by author
Macmillan Co, 1936,
(PEARY, Robert E.). HOBBS, William Herbert. Peary. With 27 maps, 13 halftones, 10 records and diagrams and 36 drawings by the author after photographsby Peary and others. NY: The Macmillan Co., 1936. Pp 502, including fronti s. + [7] leaves of plates. Illustrated with maps and drawings to text + [3]folding maps. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board. Ar ctic Bibliography 7160. "Detailed and thoroughly documented biography of Robert E. Peary, with interpolated information on Greenland, expedition equipment, meteorology, etc., by a veteran scientist-explorer of West Greenland.[...] Includes discussion of the icecap, its wind system, Cape York meteor ites; Peary's assaults on the Pole (in detail); the Peary-Cook controversy." - A.B. Contents: Part I. The Period of Training; Part II. Exploratory Surveys; Part III. Exploring the Arctic; Part IV. Direct Assaults Upon the Pole; Part V. The Great Controversy; Part VI. For Defense of His Country. Appendices. Presentation copy signed by the author, William Herbert Hobbs. Covers lightly rubbed, lower extremities bumped, ow vg. 90.00
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