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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. London: Ballantyne & Co. Limited for William Heinemann, 1909. 3 volumes (including the supplement The Antarctic Book Winter Quarters), 4° (26.8 x 22cm.). Half-titles. Titles (to vols.I & II) in brown and black. Plates (a few double-page, some mounted including 16 coloured plates after George Marston, some etched), 1 folding panorama and 3 folding lithographic maps printed in three colours in pocket at back of vol.II, illustrations. Original vellum (vols.I & II) and vellum-backed boards (supplement), covers of vols.I & II blocked in gilt with the two penguins device, spines of all three volumes lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, all three volumes contained within a single brown cloth box with separate cover.
PROVENANCE:
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), and thence by descent.
A FINE COMPLETE SET OF THE LIMITED EDITION WITH AN IMPORTANT PROVENANCE, NUMBER 274 OF 300 COPIES, WITH THE SIGNATURES OF ALL MEMBERS OF THE SHORE PARTY ON 2 PAGES IN THE SUPPLEMENT.
Conrad p.148; Renard 1448; Spence 1096. (3)
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. London: Ballantyne & Co. Limited for William Heinemann, 1909. 3 volumes (including the supplement The Antarctic Book Winter Quarters), 4° (26.8 x 22cm.). Half-titles. Titles (to vols.I & II) in brown and black. Plates (a few double-page, some mounted including 16 coloured plates after George Marston, some etched), 1 folding panorama and 3 folding lithographic maps printed in three colours in pocket at back of vol.II, illustrations. Original vellum (vols.I & II) and vellum-backed boards (supplement), covers of vols.I & II blocked in gilt with the two penguins device, spines of all three volumes lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, all three volumes contained within a single brown cloth box with separate cover.
PROVENANCE:
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), and thence by descent.
A FINE COMPLETE SET OF THE LIMITED EDITION WITH AN IMPORTANT PROVENANCE, NUMBER 274 OF 300 COPIES, WITH THE SIGNATURES OF ALL MEMBERS OF THE SHORE PARTY ON 2 PAGES IN THE SUPPLEMENT.
Conrad p.148; Renard 1448; Spence 1096. (3)
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