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ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1910-1912
ROALD ENGELBREGT GRAVNING AMUNDSEN (1872-1928)
The South Pole. London: John Murray, 1912. 2 volumes, 8° (225 x 165 mm). 5 maps and charts (4 folding), one folding diagram of the Fram, and 99 photographic plates. (Scattered variable spotting throughout, tiny tear and light marginal creasing to one folding map, pp.373-6, 385-8 and 388-392 unopened.) Original decorated maroon cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut (extremities lightly rubbed, spines faintly discoloured, tiny nick to headcap of vol. II).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, second impression dated December 1912. After hearing of Cook's and Peary's claim of the North Pole in 1909, Amundsen changed his plan and instead decided to head for Antarctica. He arrived in the Fram at the eastern edge of Ross Ice Shelf on 14 January 1911. Amundsen spent the winter mapping his route and preparing depots, finally leaving for the South Pole on 19 October 1911 with four other men, four sledges and 52 dogs. They arrived at the Pole on 14 December 1911, 35 days before Robert Falcon Scott and his party. Rosove 9.A2 ('Scarce'). Sold with a copy of the FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of the same author's The North West Passage (London, 1908) in 2 volumes. (4)
ROALD ENGELBREGT GRAVNING AMUNDSEN (1872-1928)
The South Pole. London: John Murray, 1912. 2 volumes, 8° (225 x 165 mm). 5 maps and charts (4 folding), one folding diagram of the Fram, and 99 photographic plates. (Scattered variable spotting throughout, tiny tear and light marginal creasing to one folding map, pp.373-6, 385-8 and 388-392 unopened.) Original decorated maroon cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut (extremities lightly rubbed, spines faintly discoloured, tiny nick to headcap of vol. II).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, second impression dated December 1912. After hearing of Cook's and Peary's claim of the North Pole in 1909, Amundsen changed his plan and instead decided to head for Antarctica. He arrived in the Fram at the eastern edge of Ross Ice Shelf on 14 January 1911. Amundsen spent the winter mapping his route and preparing depots, finally leaving for the South Pole on 19 October 1911 with four other men, four sledges and 52 dogs. They arrived at the Pole on 14 December 1911, 35 days before Robert Falcon Scott and his party. Rosove 9.A2 ('Scarce'). Sold with a copy of the FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of the same author's The North West Passage (London, 1908) in 2 volumes. (4)
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