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SIR ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON (1874-1922), LOUIS C. BERNACCHI (1876-1940) AND APSLEY GEORGE BENET CHERRY-GARRARD (1886-1959), editors The South Polar Times. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1907-1914. 3 volumes, 4° (275 x 210mm.). Titles in red and black (vols. I-II), text and title in ochre and blue (vol. III), plates and illustrations, some chromolithographed, after Herbert Ponting, Edward Wilson and others. (Occasional light spotting to preliminary leaves of vol. III). Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, the upper covers with gilt lettering and rope-work surrounding centrally-placed inset pictorial cloth panels, g.e. (extremities lightly rubbed).
With: an illustrated advertisement, printed in blue, titled 'Discovery. ourse of Lectures. No. 1 by M. Murray Minute Vegetation of the Sea'. August 19, 1901.
PROVENANCE:
C.W.M. Swithinbank (stamped on flyleaf of vol. III), British glaciologist in the Antarctic between 1949 and 1962.
A FINE SET OF THIS CORNERSTONE TO ANY COLLECTION OF PRINTED WORKS ON ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. Volumes I and II are both from the limited edition of 250 copies, these copies numbered 18. Volume III is from the limited edition of 350 copies, this copy numbered 264. The South Polar Times was an exact reproduction of the original which appeared month by month during the winters of 1902 and 1903, edited by Sir Ernest Shackleton and Louis Bernacchi, with articles, stories, poems and drawings supplied by various members of the British National Anarctic Expedition of 1901-04. Volume III, edited by Cherry-Garrard, contains contributions from members of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1913. Conrad p.111, 121 & 173; Renard 1433 & 1434; Spence 1094. (3)
With: an illustrated advertisement, printed in blue, titled 'Discovery. ourse of Lectures. No. 1 by M. Murray Minute Vegetation of the Sea'. August 19, 1901.
PROVENANCE:
C.W.M. Swithinbank (stamped on flyleaf of vol. III), British glaciologist in the Antarctic between 1949 and 1962.
A FINE SET OF THIS CORNERSTONE TO ANY COLLECTION OF PRINTED WORKS ON ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. Volumes I and II are both from the limited edition of 250 copies, these copies numbered 18. Volume III is from the limited edition of 350 copies, this copy numbered 264. The South Polar Times was an exact reproduction of the original which appeared month by month during the winters of 1902 and 1903, edited by Sir Ernest Shackleton and Louis Bernacchi, with articles, stories, poems and drawings supplied by various members of the British National Anarctic Expedition of 1901-04. Volume III, edited by Cherry-Garrard, contains contributions from members of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1913. Conrad p.111, 121 & 173; Renard 1433 & 1434; Spence 1094. (3)
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