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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, 4° (246 x 180mm.). Half-titles, errata slip in vol.II, titles in brown and black. Plates (12 coloured after George Marston), one folding panorama and 3 folding lithographic maps printed in three colours in pocket at back of vol.II, illustrations. Original blue cloth, blocked in silver on upper covers and gilt on spines, t.e.g. (spines unequally faded, vol. one much more so than vol.II, vol.II with small tears to head and foot of spine and edge of upper cover). FIRST TRADE EDITION, WITH AN INTERESTING PROVENANCE. Conrad p.148; Rosove 305.B1a; Spence 1097; Taurus 58.
PROVENANCE:
Family of Sir Ernest Shackleton; Lady Betty Shackleton (ink signature to half-title of vol. one). (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, 4° (246 x 180mm.). Half-titles, errata slip in vol.II, titles in brown and black. Plates (12 coloured after George Marston), one folding panorama and 3 folding lithographic maps printed in three colours in pocket at back of vol.II, illustrations. Original blue cloth, blocked in silver on upper covers and gilt on spines, t.e.g. (spines unequally faded, vol. one much more so than vol.II, vol.II with small tears to head and foot of spine and edge of upper cover). FIRST TRADE EDITION, WITH AN INTERESTING PROVENANCE. Conrad p.148; Rosove 305.B1a; Spence 1097; Taurus 58.
PROVENANCE:
Family of Sir Ernest Shackleton; Lady Betty Shackleton (ink signature to half-title of vol. one). (2)
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