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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. 2 volumes only (lacking the supplement The Antarctic Book Winter Quarters), 4° (26.8 x 22cm.). Half-titles. Titles in brown and black. Plates, a few double-page, some mounted including 12 coloured plates after George Marston, folding panorama and 3 folding lithographic maps printed in three colours in pocket at back of vol.II, illustrations. Original vellum, upper covers blocked in gilt with the two penguins device, spines lettered in gilt, top edge gilt (some soiling and spotting).
PROVENANCE:
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), and thence by descent.
LIMITED EDITION, NUMBER 21 OF 300 COPIES.
Conrad p.148; Renard 1448; Spence 1096. (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. London: Ballantyne & Co. Limited for William Heinemann, 1909. 2 volumes only (lacking the supplement The Antarctic Book Winter Quarters), 4° (26.8 x 22cm.). Half-titles. Titles in brown and black. Plates, a few double-page, some mounted including 12 coloured plates after George Marston, folding panorama and 3 folding lithographic maps printed in three colours in pocket at back of vol.II, illustrations. Original vellum, upper covers blocked in gilt with the two penguins device, spines lettered in gilt, top edge gilt (some soiling and spotting).
PROVENANCE:
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), and thence by descent.
LIMITED EDITION, NUMBER 21 OF 300 COPIES.
Conrad p.148; Renard 1448; Spence 1096. (2)
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