‎Soper, Tony‎
‎Arctic‎

‎The State of the Ice in the Arctic seas and the surface-temperatur of the sea in the northern Atlantic-Ocean and in Davis-Strait 1893-1930. The general title alternates a bit in the beginning and the first years bear the title ""Storisen i Davis-Stræd... - [THE FIRST COOPERATIVE AND SYSTEMATIZED MONITORING OF THE ARCTIC SEA ICE]‎

‎(Copenhagen, DMI, 1893-1930). Small folio. The issues 1893-1915 are all bound with all the original printed wrappers (stating that they are off-prints) for every issue (except for the front wrapper for the first issue) in four near contemporary blue half cloth bindings with gilt titles and years to spine. The issues 1916-1930 are all present in the original printed wrappers and housed in three custom-made slipcases identical to the four preceding volumes. Ste back wrapper of the 1924-issue is loose. Otherwise the set is generally in excellent condition, with stamps from the Danish Meteorological Institute, in the holdings of which it has been until the present day. With numerous charts and maps throughout. ‎

‎Scarce run of the important first Arctic Sea Ice Charts from the Danish Meteorological Institute, all in off-prints from the Meteorological Year Books of Danish Meteorological Institute, constituting a continuous run, from its very beginning in 1893, of the first 38 years. These earliest Arctic Sea ice measurements and charts are absolutely fundamental for the monitoring of sea ice and, for our ability to determine the extent of the acceleration of global warming, and for the possibility of potentially changing climate patterns. ""...the maps from the Danish Meteorological Institute. These are remarkable for their information value and because they represent a cooperative international effort to report ice conditions in a systematic way that was sustained over decades."" (Florence Fetterer: Piecing together the Arctic's sea ice history back to 1850, in: Carbon Brief). ""These charts, created by the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), provide observed and inferred sea ice extent for each summer month from 1893 to 1956. From 1893 to 1956, the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) created charts of observed and inferred sea ice extent for each summer month. These charts are based on compiled observations of ice conditions reported by a variable network of national organizations, shore-based observers, scientific expeditions, and ships as detailed in each report"" in cases where no observations were available, the lead mapmakers extrapolated further ice cover using their knowledge of ice movement."" (DMI - Danish Meteorological Institute). The early surveillance of the Arctic Sea Ice has been of immense importance to the development of climate change science. It is the cause of the determination of global warming and the primary proof we have of the deterioration of sea ice, the heating of the oceans and the rice of Arctic temperatures. These seminal charts constitute one of the very most important sources to our understanding of this world-threatening phenomenon. ""Over the last three centuries, geographers, oceanographers, geophysicists, glaciologists, climatologists, and geoengineers have shown great interest in Arctic Ocean sea ice extent. Many of these experts envisaged an ice-free Arctic Ocean. This article studies three stages of that narrative: the belief in an ice-free Arctic Ocean, the potential for one, and the threat of one. Eighteenth and nineteenth century interest in accessing navigable polar sea routes energised the belief in an iceless polar sea" an early twentieth century North Hemispheric warm spell combined with mid-century cold war geostrategy to open the potential for drastic sea ice loss" and, most recently, climate models have illuminated the threat of a seasonally ice-free future, igniting widespread concerns about the impact this might have on Earth's natural and physical systems. This long narrative of an ice-free Arctic Ocean can help to explain modern-day scepticism of human-induced environmental change in the far north."" (An ice-free Arctic Ocean: history, science, and skepticism).‎

‎Isforholdene i de Arktiske Have - The State of the Ice in the Arctic seas. 1932-34 + 1936-1939 + 1949 + 1954. Separate off-prints from the Meteorological Year Book of the Danish Meteorological Institute. - [OBSERVATION OF THE ARCTIC SEA ICE]‎

‎København & Hørsholm, 1932-54. Small folio. All nine issues in the original printed wrappers. In excellent condition. With numerous maps and plans. ‎

‎""...the maps from the Danish Meteorological Institute. These are remarkable for their information value and because they represent a cooperative international effort to report ice conditions in a systematic way that was sustained over decades."" (Florence Fetterer: Piecing together the Arctic's sea ice history back to 1850, in: Carbon Brief). ""These charts, created by the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), provide observed and inferred sea ice extent for each summer month from 1893 to 1956. From 1893 to 1956, the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) created charts of observed and inferred sea ice extent for each summer month. These charts are based on compiled observations of ice conditions reported by a variable network of national organizations, shore-based observers, scientific expeditions, and ships as detailed in each report"" in cases where no observations were available, the lead mapmakers extrapolated further ice cover using their knowledge of ice movement."" (DMI - Danish Meteorological Institute). The early surveillance of the Arctic Sea Ice has been of immense importance to the development of climate change science. It is the cause of the determination of global warming and the primary proof we have of the deterioration of sea ice, the heating of the oceans and the rice of Arctic temperatures. These seminal charts constitute one of the very most important sources to our understanding of this world-threatening phenomenon. ""Over the last three centuries, geographers, oceanographers, geophysicists, glaciologists, climatologists, and geoengineers have shown great interest in Arctic Ocean sea ice extent. Many of these experts envisaged an ice-free Arctic Ocean. This article studies three stages of that narrative: the belief in an ice-free Arctic Ocean, the potential for one, and the threat of one. Eighteenth and nineteenth century interest in accessing navigable polar sea routes energised the belief in an iceless polar sea" an early twentieth century North Hemispheric warm spell combined with mid-century cold war geostrategy to open the potential for drastic sea ice loss" and, most recently, climate models have illuminated the threat of a seasonally ice-free future, igniting widespread concerns about the impact this might have on Earth's natural and physical systems. This long narrative of an ice-free Arctic Ocean can help to explain modern-day scepticism of human-induced environmental change in the far north."" (An ice-free Arctic Ocean: history, science, and skepticism).‎

‎Pollution of the Arctic: State of the Arctic Environment Report. In Russian /Za‎

‎Pollution of the Arctic: State of the Arctic Environment Report. In Russian /Zagryaznenie Arktiki: doklad o sostoyanii okruzhayushchey sredy Arktiki. AMAP (Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program). St. Petersburg Hydrometeorological Issuance 1998. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb5312993b6be0691a.‎

‎Arctic and Alpine Biodiversity: Patterns, Causes and Ecosystem. Arctic and Alpi‎

‎Arctic and Alpine Biodiversity: Patterns, Causes and Ecosystem. Arctic and Alpine Biodiversity: Patterns, Causes, and Consequences for Ecosystems. In English /Arctic and Alpine Biodiversity: Patterns, Causes and Ecosystem. Arkticheskoe i alpiyskoe bioraznoobrazie: zakonomernosti, prichiny i posledstviya dlya ekosistem. F. Stuart Chapin III, Christian Korner (Eds.). Edited by F. Stuart Chapin III, Christian Corner. Series: Ecological Studies 113. design of the cover illustration by Mark W. Chapin. With 68 Figures. In English. Berlin-Neidelberg / Berlin-Heidelberg Published by Springer Verlaga 1995, 332 pp. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbb2de13019357dcf2.‎

‎Shores of the Polar Sea. A Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76. Illustrated with Sixteen Chromo=Lithographs and numerous Engravings from Drawings made on the Spot by the Author.‎

‎London, Marcus Ward & Co., 1878. Folio. (49 x 35 cm.). Orig. full pictotial cloth. Richly gilt. Spine-ends repaired. First inner hinge strenghtened. Edges gilt. Halftitle with a stamp. (1-7)8-83 pp. With 16 mounted, fine chromolithographed plates, many textillustrations, 1 map. Title-page printed in red/black. Internally clean fine.‎

‎First edition. ""It is believed by both Artist and Publishers that a much fuller and more vivid idea of Arctic scenery can be produced by careful chromo-lithographic fac-similes of the original drawings made by Dr Edward L. Moss during the Expedition, than by any rendering in black and white. The sketches are not designed to illustrate the progress of the Expedition, or any stirring events in its history, so much as the appearance of the strange and desolate country by the shores of which the ships slowly steamed, the wonderful phenomena of the sky, and the effects of light and shade produced by a midnight sun, or a mid-day moon, on the ice-bound rocks which form the scenery of the region. They are here reproduced ... in order to make them more generally accessible ... It must be added that the sketches are all the work of one hand - Dr Edward L. Moss, who served on board the Alert in the Arctic Expedition which left England on the 29th of May, 1875, and entered the Arctic regions on the 4th of July in the same year. Although the Expedition failed in reaching the Pole - which was among the sailing orders on which it started - it yet achieved results of the highest scientific and geographic value. Of what kind was the life they led - what strange experiences they gained of natural phenomena, and the freaks of light on ice and rock - the accompanying drawings illustrate with a vividness and fullness never before arrived at in sketches of Arctic life."" (Scott Polar Research Institute).‎