The following booksellers count Antarcticana among their specialities, some more so than others. Those noted with an asterisk (*) deal exclusively or nearly so in polar material.
Last updated: 21 April 2008.
P. O. Box 3356
Santa Monica, CA 90408-3356, USA
Contact: Michael Rosove
E-mail: adelie@adeliebooks.com
Web: http://www.adeliebooks.com
Not an antiquarian dealer but a publisher of exclusively Antarctic titles in fine editions.
29 Garrison Landing
Garrison, NY 10524, USA
Postal address: P.O. Box 189, Cold Spring, NHY 10516
Contacts: David & Cathy Lilburne
Tel: 845 424 3867
Fax: 845 424 3617
E-mail: info@antipodean.com
Web: http://www.antipodean.com
Affiliations: ABAA; ILAB-LILA
Rare & out of print Antarctic books, maps, prints, ephemera & photographs.
Postal Address: Box 75035, Cambrian Postal Outlet, Calgary, Alberta T2M 0J9 CANADA
Shop Address: 826 - 16 Ave N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2K 6J8, CANADA
Contacts: Cameron Treleaven
Tel: 403 282 5832
Fax: 403 289 0814
E-mail: aquila@aquilabooks.com
Web: http://www.aquilabooks.com
Affiliations: ABAC/ALAC; ILAB-LILA; PBFA
Polar exploration, early voyages, western Canadiana, etc.
49 Dorset Street
London W1U 7NF, UK
Contacts: Ben Burdett, Zoe Bingham
Tel: (+44) 20 7224 4192
Fax: (+44) 20 7224 3351
E-mail: info@atlasgallery.com
Web: http://www.atlasgallery.com
Occasional catalogues. Also publishes and distributes special limited edition prints and photographs of polar subjects including The Hurley Collection.
Head Office: Old Hume Highway
Berrima, NSW 2577, Australia
Contact: Leo Berkelouw
Tel: 61 (0)2 4877 1370
Fax: 61(0)2 4877 1102
E-mail: books@berkelouw.com.au
Web: http://www.berkelouw.com.au
Affiliations: ILAB-LILA
Local history, Periodicals, Travel, Australiana, Pacific, Antarctic, Anthropology, Fine literature.
Oak House
4 East Street
Bluntisham, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28 3LS, UK
Contacts: Sharon or David Walton
Tel: 01487 840449
Fax: 01487 840894
E-mail: contact@bluntishambooks.co.uk
Web: http://www.bluntishambooks.co.uk
Specialist in polar (including Falklands and subantarctic islands), and
whaling books. Issues 3 catalogues a year. Also publishes numerous reprints, translations and new books on Antarctica.
Flat 14
84 Westbourne Terrace
London W2 6QE, UK
Contacts: John Bonham, Suzanne Bonham
Tel: 020 7402 7064
Fax: 020 7402 0955
Mobile: 07860 547457
E-mail: bonbooks@dial.pipex.com
Web: http://www.bonbooks.dial.pipex.com
Affiliations: ABA; PBFA; ILAB-LILA
Established 1976. Specializing in voayges and travels. Exhibiting at bookfairs and by appointment.
Griesmattenweg 3b
D-77654 Offenburg, Germany
Contacts: Herbert Breuer
Tel: +49 (0)781-9482732
Fax: +49 (0)781-43849
E-mail: Antiquariat.Breuer@t-online.de
Web: http://www.antiquariat-breuer.de
Rare & out of print polar books, with emphasis on science.
Kreidlerstrasse 9
70806 Kornwestheim, Germany
Contact: Frank Werner FRGS
Tel: 0049 7154 132751
Fax: 0049 7154 132713
E-mail: ant@brocom.de
Web: http://www.brockhaus-antiquarium.de
Affiliations: ILAB, VDA
Specializes in the history of travel, geography and allied fields. Issues 6 catalogues per year, one for each continent and one for the polar regions.
P. O. Box 4675
Rolling Bay, WA 98061, USA
Contact: Colin Bull
Tel: 206 842 9660
E-mail: CBULL61328@earthlink.net
Established 1985. Issues 2-3 catalogues a year with occasional additional lists. Arctic and Antarctic books, with ephemera and some scientific reprints and reports.
5129 South Elk Ridge Road
P. O. Box 4359, Evergreen, CO 80437, USA
Contact: Michael Chessler
Tel: 303 670 0093
Fax: 303 670 9727
E-mail: chesslerbk@aol.com
Web: http://www.chesslerbooks.com or http://www.abebooks.com/home/CHESSLERBOOKS/
Affiliations: ABAA, RMABA
Primarily mountaineering but some polar regions. Catalogues issued.
8 King Street, St James's
London SW1Y 6QT, UK
Contacts: Nicholas Lambourn (pictures), Tom Lamb (books)
Tel: 020 7389 2040
Fax: 020 7389 2158
E-mail: NLambourn@christies.com or TLamb@christies.com
Web: http://www.christies.com
Conducts two Exploration and Travel auction sales a year in London. This year (2002) held its first polar book sale which may become an annual event.
Horswell Coach House
South Milton, Kingsbridge, South Devon TQ7 3JU, UK
Contact: Paul Davies
Tel: 01548 561798. Overseas +44 1 548 561798
E-mail: paul@daviesdev.freeserve.co.uk
Affiliations: PBFA
Polar exploration. Catalogues issued.
Bob Finch: PO Box 11254, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110, USA
Cameron Treleaven: Aquila Books, PO Box 70535, Cambrian PO, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2K 6J8
Contacts: Bob Finch or Cameron Treleaven
Tel: 206 842 0202 or 403 282 5832.
E-mail: info@discoverybookauctions.com or highlatitude@msn.com or arcticbooks@aquilabooks.com
Web: http://www.aquilabooks.com/Discovery/catalog.html
Occasional book auctions featuring fine and rare books, ephemera and artifacts in the fields of world travel and exploration, ships & the sea, mountaineering, and true adventure.
Fallow Chase
Durfold Wood
Plaistow
West Sussex RH14 0PL, UK
Contact: John Simper
Tel/Fax: Overseas: +44 (0)1 483 200 286. Inland UK: 01 483 200 286
E-mail: sueandjohn88@btinternet.com
Web: http://www.explbooks.co.uk
Exclusively polar. Explorer Books issued a long string of fine catalogues, then switched to web catalogues. Now John reports that the Explorer Books is now a "very much bespoke business—valuations and helping customers to dispose of their collections."
Ard-Darach
Strathview Terrace
Pitlochry
Scotland PH16 5AT, UK
Contact: Chris Bartle
Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1796 470056.
E-mail: chris@glacierbooks.com
Mountaineering and polar travel, new, secondhand and antiquarian. Issues catalogues.
77 Victoria Street
Potts Point
Sydney NSW 2011, Australia
Contact: Anne McCormick
Tel: (02) 9356 4411. International: +61 2 9356 4411
Fax: (02) 9357 3635. International: +61 2 9357 3635
E-mail: books@hordern.com
Web: http://www.hordern.com
Catalogues issued. Web catalogues. Publisher and bookseller.
50 Berkeley Square
London W1J 5BA, UK
Contacts: Hugh Bett, Jeffrey Kerr
Tel: 020 7493 7160
Fax: 020 7499 2007
E-mail: hugh@maggs.com / jeff@maggs.com
Web: http://www.maggs.com
Affiliations: ABA; ILAB-LILA; PBFA
Maggs Bros. was established in the 1850s by Uriah Maggs,
great-great-grandfather of the current chairman John Maggs. Within the
company there are some eight departments which cover a wide range of
subjects, and issue between them some 15 to 20 catalogues and lists a year.
Of these the Travel department publishes at least two general Voyage &
Travels catalogues per year, each of which includes a separate section for
polar material.
Ballater
Aberdeenshire AB35 5UB Scotland, UK
Contact: Peter McEwan
Tel: 013397 55429
Fax: 013397 55995
E-mail: pjmm@easynet.co.uk
Established 1972. Catalogues issued approximately quarterly.
P.O. Box 51650
Deptford, London SE8 4XW, UK
Contact: Stuart Leggatt
Tel: +44 (0) 208 694 2168
Fax: +44 (0) 208 694 2168
E-mail: info@meridianrarebooks.co.uk
Web: http://www.meridianrarebooks.co.uk
"Specialists in Travel Exploration and Science." Catalogues issued. Stuart Leggatt was for some years the travel and polar specialist at Henry Sotheran.
7644 Forrestal Road
San Diego CA 92120-2203, USA
Contacts: Jean Marie or Jerry Parmer
Tel: 619 287 0693
Fax: 619 287 6135
E-mail: ParmerBook@aol.com
Web: http://www.stairway.org/parmer
Affiliations: ABAA
Dealer in new, out-of-print, antiquarian and rare books on exploration and discovery, Arctic and Antarctic, sea voyages and the islands of the South Pacific. Catalogues issued.
13 Westgarth Avenue
Edinburgh EH13 0BB Scotland, UK
Contact:
Tel: 0131 441 3870
E-mail: pinnaclebooks@blueyonder.co.uk
Web: http://www.pinnaclebooks.net
Affiliations: PBFA
Dealer in antiquarian and secondhand books specialising in the polar regions and mountaineering.
P. O. Box 1030
Ivanhoe, 3079, Victoria, Australia
Contact: Julien Renard
Tel: +61 3 9459 5040
Fax: +61 3 9459 6787
E-mail: books@gastonrenard.com.au
Web: http://www.gastonrenard.com.au
Affiliations: ANZAAB; ILAB-LILA
Established 1945. 2-3 catalogues issued per year on Polar subjects;
specialising in early voyages and the Antarctic.
P.O. Box 301
Southworth, WA 98386, USA
Contact: Chet Ross
Tel: 360 769 2437
E-mail: cross@wavecable.com
Web: http://www.chetrossrarebooks.com
Specializing in exploration, expeditions, voyages and discovery with a dominant focus on the Polar Regions. First person narratives and scientific research are of special interest.
2-5 Sackville Street, Piccadilly
London W1S 3DP, UK
Contact: Mark James
Tel: 0207 439 6151
Fax: 0207 434 2019
E-mail: mstjcj@sotherans.co.uk
Web: http://www.sotherans.co.uk
Affiliations: ABA
Established 1761. Issues occasional Travel & Natural History catalogues with sections devoted to polar books.
26 Totara Street
Rona Bay, Eastbourne
Wellington, New Zealand 6008
Contact: Ruediger Mack
Tel: 0064 4 5627376
Fax:
E-mail: hoymack@xtra.co.nz
Web: http://www.abebooks.com/home/RUEDI/
Affiliations:
Voyages and Exploration; Antarctica, Arctica, Mountaineering; Natural history, etc.
182 Orchard Commons Road
Hinesburg, VT 05461, USA
Contact: Greg Glade
Tel: 802 482 7287
Fax: 802 482 5050
E-mail: greg@topworldbooks.com
Web: http://www.topworldbooks.com
Specializing in Mountain and Polar Literature since 1989.
Highview House, Lucastes Lane
Haywards Heath
West Sussex RH16 1LD, UK
Contact: Christine Saxena
Tel: (01444) 473 164
E-mail: info@walter-saxenararebooks.com
Web: http://www.walter-saxenararebooks.com
Affiliations: PBFA
Polar exploration; arctic voyages; whaling; women explorers; mountaineering.
113 W Liberty
Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
Contact: Jay Platt
Tel: 734 995 1891
E-mail: jplatt@provide.net
Affiliations: ABAA
Issues 2 or 3 polar catalogues a year.