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Sir Douglas MAWSON (1882-1938)
The Home of the Blizzard being the story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. London: William Heinemann, 1915. 2 volumes, 8° (240 x 173mm). Titles in brown and black, half-titles. 2 photogravure frontispieces, 222 plates several folding, 3 folding two-colour lithographic maps in pocket at end of vol.II. Original dark blue cloth blocked in gilt and silver (tears to spines). First edition. Conrad p.208; Renard 1023; Spence 774; Taurus 100; together with D.MAWSON. The Home of the Blizzard... abridged popular edition, London, 1934, 8°; D.MAWSON. Leben und Tod am Südpol, Leipzig, 1921, 2 vols., 8°; D.MAWSON. Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14... Scientific Reports. Series A. Vol.I. geographical Narrative and Cartography, Sydney, 1942, large 4°; D.MAWSON. Mawson's Antarctic Diaries, edited by F.& E.Jacka, Sydney, Wellington, etc., 1988, 4°). (17)
The Home of the Blizzard being the story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. London: William Heinemann, 1915. 2 volumes, 8° (240 x 173mm). Titles in brown and black, half-titles. 2 photogravure frontispieces, 222 plates several folding, 3 folding two-colour lithographic maps in pocket at end of vol.II. Original dark blue cloth blocked in gilt and silver (tears to spines). First edition. Conrad p.208; Renard 1023; Spence 774; Taurus 100; together with D.MAWSON. The Home of the Blizzard... abridged popular edition, London, 1934, 8°; D.MAWSON. Leben und Tod am Südpol, Leipzig, 1921, 2 vols., 8°; D.MAWSON. Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14... Scientific Reports. Series A. Vol.I. geographical Narrative and Cartography, Sydney, 1942, large 4°; D.MAWSON. Mawson's Antarctic Diaries, edited by F.& E.Jacka, Sydney, Wellington, etc., 1988, 4°). (17)
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