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Auction archive: Lot number 130

Aurora, Borealis and Australis

Auction 09.05.2002
9 May 2002
Estimate
£600 - £900
ca. US$875 - US$1,313
Price realised:
£1,912
ca. US$2,790
Auction archive: Lot number 130

Aurora, Borealis and Australis

Auction 09.05.2002
9 May 2002
Estimate
£600 - £900
ca. US$875 - US$1,313
Price realised:
£1,912
ca. US$2,790
Beschreibung:

Aurora, Borealis and Australis Carl STÖRMER. The Polar Aurora . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955. 8° (234 x 157mm). Half-title. Plates and illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket. First edition. [ With :] Sir Charles Seymour WRIGHT (1887-1975). British (Terra Nova) Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913. Observations on the Aurora . London: Harrison & Sons, Ltd., for the Committee of the Captain Scott Antarctic Fund, 1921, Large 4° (305 x 234mm). 2 leaves of graphs and diagrams. Original wrappers. First edition, a fine copy. Kristian BIRKELAND (1867-1917). The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition 1902-1903. Volume I On the cause of magnetic storms and the origin of terrestrial magnetism . Oslo, London, [etc.]: 1908-1913. 1 volume in two sections in three parts in one volume, large 4° (314 x 240mm). Plates, graphs, daigrams and illustrations. Contemporary half vellum gilt. A fine copy. Arctic Bibliography 1595; together with 27 others (including: H.FRITZ. Die Sonne , Zurich, 1884, 4°; Ragnald WESOE. The Norwegian North Polar expedition... 1918-1925, Scientific Results, vol.I, No.6. Aurora Photographs , Bergen, 1928, 4°; H.U.SVERDRUP. The Norwegian North Polar expedition... 1918-1925 Scientific Results... Vol.Ib Magnetic, Atmospheric-Electric and Auroral results. Extracted from publication no.175, vol.VI, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington , [Washington, circa 1927], 4°). (30)

Auction archive: Lot number 130
Auction:
Datum:
9 May 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

Aurora, Borealis and Australis Carl STÖRMER. The Polar Aurora . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955. 8° (234 x 157mm). Half-title. Plates and illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket. First edition. [ With :] Sir Charles Seymour WRIGHT (1887-1975). British (Terra Nova) Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913. Observations on the Aurora . London: Harrison & Sons, Ltd., for the Committee of the Captain Scott Antarctic Fund, 1921, Large 4° (305 x 234mm). 2 leaves of graphs and diagrams. Original wrappers. First edition, a fine copy. Kristian BIRKELAND (1867-1917). The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition 1902-1903. Volume I On the cause of magnetic storms and the origin of terrestrial magnetism . Oslo, London, [etc.]: 1908-1913. 1 volume in two sections in three parts in one volume, large 4° (314 x 240mm). Plates, graphs, daigrams and illustrations. Contemporary half vellum gilt. A fine copy. Arctic Bibliography 1595; together with 27 others (including: H.FRITZ. Die Sonne , Zurich, 1884, 4°; Ragnald WESOE. The Norwegian North Polar expedition... 1918-1925, Scientific Results, vol.I, No.6. Aurora Photographs , Bergen, 1928, 4°; H.U.SVERDRUP. The Norwegian North Polar expedition... 1918-1925 Scientific Results... Vol.Ib Magnetic, Atmospheric-Electric and Auroral results. Extracted from publication no.175, vol.VI, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington , [Washington, circa 1927], 4°). (30)

Auction archive: Lot number 130
Auction:
Datum:
9 May 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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