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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)
[Exhibition Catalogue] The British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-9. London: printed by Sir Joseph Causton & Sons, [no date but 1909]. Printed in red and black. Portrait frontispiece, extra-illustrated with 3pp. of contemporary press-cuttings mounted at the back. Original black paper wrappers, upper cover titled in white above small onlaid rectangle with vignette view of the 'Nimrod' in floe ice. [Bound with:] three extracts from Pearson's Magazine for September-December 1909. pp.[233-]252; [345-368] and [517-]536, the complete text to a serialised article titled 'Lieutenant Shackleton's Own Story. Nearest the South Pole.', numerous illustrations. 2 works in one volume, 4° (228 x 165mm). Contemporary morocco-backed cloth.
[Exhibition Catalogue] The British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-9. London: printed by Sir Joseph Causton & Sons, [no date but 1909]. Printed in red and black. Portrait frontispiece, extra-illustrated with 3pp. of contemporary press-cuttings mounted at the back. Original black paper wrappers, upper cover titled in white above small onlaid rectangle with vignette view of the 'Nimrod' in floe ice. [Bound with:] three extracts from Pearson's Magazine for September-December 1909. pp.[233-]252; [345-368] and [517-]536, the complete text to a serialised article titled 'Lieutenant Shackleton's Own Story. Nearest the South Pole.', numerous illustrations. 2 works in one volume, 4° (228 x 165mm). Contemporary morocco-backed cloth.
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