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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)
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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)
"Troopin', Troopin', Troopin' to the Sea." "O.H.M.S." An illustrated Record of the voyage of the S.S. "Tintagel Castle" conveying twelve hundred soldiers from Southampton to Cape Town March 1900 Recorded and Illustrated by W. McLean (Surgeon) and E.H.Shackleton (Third Officer). London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Ltd., for Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Limited, 1900. Small folio (28.4 x 19.5cm.) 60pp. Title in red and black. Half-tone frontispiece and 62 illustrations. Original blue glazed paper-covered boards, titled on upper cover with integral half-tone illustration (somewhat scuffed, tears to backstrip with some loss).
A SECOND SHACKLETON FAMILY COPY OF HIS FIRST PUBLISHED WORK.
[With:]
A 4pp. prospectus for the above work and a related ephemeral printed slip on toned paper.
PROVENANCE:
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), and thence by descent.
"Troopin', Troopin', Troopin' to the Sea." "O.H.M.S." An illustrated Record of the voyage of the S.S. "Tintagel Castle" conveying twelve hundred soldiers from Southampton to Cape Town March 1900 Recorded and Illustrated by W. McLean (Surgeon) and E.H.Shackleton (Third Officer). London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Ltd., for Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Limited, 1900. Small folio (28.4 x 19.5cm.) 60pp. Title in red and black. Half-tone frontispiece and 62 illustrations. Original blue glazed paper-covered boards, titled on upper cover with integral half-tone illustration (somewhat scuffed, tears to backstrip with some loss).
A SECOND SHACKLETON FAMILY COPY OF HIS FIRST PUBLISHED WORK.
[With:]
A 4pp. prospectus for the above work and a related ephemeral printed slip on toned paper.
PROVENANCE:
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), and thence by descent.
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