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JAMESON BOYD ADAMS (1880-1962) -- BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION,
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JAMESON BOYD ADAMS (1880-1962) -- BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION,
1907-1909
M.A. Thiers. The History of the French Revolution. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853. 4° (238 x 158mm). Original brown cloth (lacking spine),
rebacked with stitched canvas sailcloth glued and riveted to boards,
brown calf lettering-piece with title and fleur-de-lys decoration in
manuscript attached to spine (worn). Provenance: 'Jameson B. Adams British Antarctic Ex. 1907' (inscription on front free endpaper with two earlier Christchurch ownership inscriptions).
FROM JAMESON ADAMS' NIMROD EXPEDITION LIBRARY. Adams served as
meteorologist and Second-in-Command of the shore party on Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition, 1907-09 and was one of the four members of the
southern party, reaching a Farthest South record of latitude 88° 23'
South, longitude 162° East on 9 January 1909. This volume, presumably picked up in Christchurch on the voyage out, formed part of his library in the hut at Cape Royds: 'Closest to Shackleton's room was that
occupied by Adams and Marshall, which was so tidy and ordered that it
was known as "No. 1 Park Lane". Adams' shelves housed a complete set of Dickens as well as books about the French Revolution and Napoleon,
whereas Marshall's were dominated by medical supplies, as the small
area also served as the local surgery. On the dividing curtain, Marston had drawn life-size portraits of Napoleon and Joan of Arc.' (B.
Riffenburgh, Nimrod, London, 2005, p.185)
Adams, J.B.
1907-1909
M.A. Thiers. The History of the French Revolution. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853. 4° (238 x 158mm). Original brown cloth (lacking spine),
rebacked with stitched canvas sailcloth glued and riveted to boards,
brown calf lettering-piece with title and fleur-de-lys decoration in
manuscript attached to spine (worn). Provenance: 'Jameson B. Adams British Antarctic Ex. 1907' (inscription on front free endpaper with two earlier Christchurch ownership inscriptions).
FROM JAMESON ADAMS' NIMROD EXPEDITION LIBRARY. Adams served as
meteorologist and Second-in-Command of the shore party on Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition, 1907-09 and was one of the four members of the
southern party, reaching a Farthest South record of latitude 88° 23'
South, longitude 162° East on 9 January 1909. This volume, presumably picked up in Christchurch on the voyage out, formed part of his library in the hut at Cape Royds: 'Closest to Shackleton's room was that
occupied by Adams and Marshall, which was so tidy and ordered that it
was known as "No. 1 Park Lane". Adams' shelves housed a complete set of Dickens as well as books about the French Revolution and Napoleon,
whereas Marshall's were dominated by medical supplies, as the small
area also served as the local surgery. On the dividing curtain, Marston had drawn life-size portraits of Napoleon and Joan of Arc.' (B.
Riffenburgh, Nimrod, London, 2005, p.185)
Adams, J.B.