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SIR ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON (1874-1922)
The Heart of the Antarctic being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 by E.H. Shackleton ... with an introduction by Hugh Robert Mill ... an account of the first journey to the Magnetic South Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David. Philadelphia: J.B.Lippincott Company, 1909. 2 volumes, 4° (247 x 170mm.). Half-titles. Titles (to vols I & II) in brown and black. Plates (12 coloured after George Marston), 1 folding panorama and 3 folding lithographic maps printed in three colours in pocket at back of vol.II, illustrations. Original blue cloth (Rosove binding 'a', with the decorations), blocked in silver on upper covers and spines, dust-jackets, t.e.g. (inner hinges of vol.II weak and somewhat split).
FIRST U.S. EDITION, A FINE SET with the scarce dust-jackets. Conrad p.148; Rosove 305.D1a; Spence 1098. (2)
The Heart of the Antarctic being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 by E.H. Shackleton ... with an introduction by Hugh Robert Mill ... an account of the first journey to the Magnetic South Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David. Philadelphia: J.B.Lippincott Company, 1909. 2 volumes, 4° (247 x 170mm.). Half-titles. Titles (to vols I & II) in brown and black. Plates (12 coloured after George Marston), 1 folding panorama and 3 folding lithographic maps printed in three colours in pocket at back of vol.II, illustrations. Original blue cloth (Rosove binding 'a', with the decorations), blocked in silver on upper covers and spines, dust-jackets, t.e.g. (inner hinges of vol.II weak and somewhat split).
FIRST U.S. EDITION, A FINE SET with the scarce dust-jackets. Conrad p.148; Rosove 305.D1a; Spence 1098. (2)
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