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ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON (1847-1922)
THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC. BEING THE STORY OF THE BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1907-1909. LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1909. 2 VOLUMES (WITHOUT THE SUPPLEMENT THE ANTARCTIC BOOK WINTER QUARTERS 1907-09), 4° (269 X 225MM). HALF-TITLES, TITLES (TO VOLS I & II) IN BROWN AND BLACK. PLATES (4 DOUBLE-PAGE, 6 ETCHED PLATES BY GEORGE MARSTON, 18 MOUNTED INCLUDING 16 COLOURED AFTER GEORGE MARSTON), 1 FOLDING PANORAMA AND 3 FOLDING LITHOGRAPHIC MAPS IN SEPARATE CLOTH PORTFOLIO, ILLUSTRATIONS. (THE MAPS IN PORTFOLIO WITH VERY SHORT SPLITS AT FOLDS, BUT WITHOUT LOSS.) ORIGINAL VELLUM, SPINES AND UPPER COVERS LETTERED IN GILT, TOP EDGES GILT, OTHERS UNCUT (VELLUM VERY LIGHTLY SOILED, COVERS A FRACTION WARPED, CLOTH PORTFOLIO SPOTTED). PROVENANCE: RAYMOND E. PRIESTLEY (BUSINESS CARD LOOSELY INSERTED, AND PRESENTION INSCRIPTION TO F.F.E.P. OF VOL. I TO:) -- CHARLES SEYMOUR 'SILAS' WRIGHT (STAMPS TO ENDPAPERS AND MAP PORTFOLIO).
FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 4 OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE SHORE PARTY. Sir Raymond Edward Priestley (1886-1974), geologist to the Nimrod expedition, later joined the Terra Nova expedition, where Wright was the physicist and glaciologist. Priestley later married Wright's sister, and was co-founder of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge. Conrad p.148; Renard 1446; Rosove 305.A2; Spence 1096; Taurus 57. (2)
THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC. BEING THE STORY OF THE BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1907-1909. LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1909. 2 VOLUMES (WITHOUT THE SUPPLEMENT THE ANTARCTIC BOOK WINTER QUARTERS 1907-09), 4° (269 X 225MM). HALF-TITLES, TITLES (TO VOLS I & II) IN BROWN AND BLACK. PLATES (4 DOUBLE-PAGE, 6 ETCHED PLATES BY GEORGE MARSTON, 18 MOUNTED INCLUDING 16 COLOURED AFTER GEORGE MARSTON), 1 FOLDING PANORAMA AND 3 FOLDING LITHOGRAPHIC MAPS IN SEPARATE CLOTH PORTFOLIO, ILLUSTRATIONS. (THE MAPS IN PORTFOLIO WITH VERY SHORT SPLITS AT FOLDS, BUT WITHOUT LOSS.) ORIGINAL VELLUM, SPINES AND UPPER COVERS LETTERED IN GILT, TOP EDGES GILT, OTHERS UNCUT (VELLUM VERY LIGHTLY SOILED, COVERS A FRACTION WARPED, CLOTH PORTFOLIO SPOTTED). PROVENANCE: RAYMOND E. PRIESTLEY (BUSINESS CARD LOOSELY INSERTED, AND PRESENTION INSCRIPTION TO F.F.E.P. OF VOL. I TO:) -- CHARLES SEYMOUR 'SILAS' WRIGHT (STAMPS TO ENDPAPERS AND MAP PORTFOLIO).
FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 4 OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE SHORE PARTY. Sir Raymond Edward Priestley (1886-1974), geologist to the Nimrod expedition, later joined the Terra Nova expedition, where Wright was the physicist and glaciologist. Priestley later married Wright's sister, and was co-founder of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge. Conrad p.148; Renard 1446; Rosove 305.A2; Spence 1096; Taurus 57. (2)