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JAMES GERALD STOKELY DOORLY (1880-1956)
The Voyages of the 'Morning'. London: Ballantyne Press for Smith, Elder & Co., 1916. 8° (201 x 126mm). Half-title, frontispiece and 21 illustrations, 9 full-page, 4ll. of sheet music, one folding map. (Some spots on title page, occasional light off-setting on verso of plates.) Original blue pictorial cloth, titled on spine (head and foot of spine lightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY OF 'ONE OF THE SCARCEST BOOKS OF ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION' (Rosove). Doorly was third executive officer, under Captain William Colbeck, aboard the Morning and provides an eye-witness account of events during the relief voyages. The Morning found the Discovery held fast in the ice, in February 1903. After re-supplying she went back to New Zealand, carrying an ill and angry Shackleton with her after his first year with Scott. Returning to the Antarctic in company with the Terra Nova in January 1904, she took part in the eventual release of the Discovery in February 1904. Rosove 96.A1; Taurus 142.
The Voyages of the 'Morning'. London: Ballantyne Press for Smith, Elder & Co., 1916. 8° (201 x 126mm). Half-title, frontispiece and 21 illustrations, 9 full-page, 4ll. of sheet music, one folding map. (Some spots on title page, occasional light off-setting on verso of plates.) Original blue pictorial cloth, titled on spine (head and foot of spine lightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY OF 'ONE OF THE SCARCEST BOOKS OF ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION' (Rosove). Doorly was third executive officer, under Captain William Colbeck, aboard the Morning and provides an eye-witness account of events during the relief voyages. The Morning found the Discovery held fast in the ice, in February 1903. After re-supplying she went back to New Zealand, carrying an ill and angry Shackleton with her after his first year with Scott. Returning to the Antarctic in company with the Terra Nova in January 1904, she took part in the eventual release of the Discovery in February 1904. Rosove 96.A1; Taurus 142.
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