Sale 6624
London
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25 September 2002
Price realised
GBP 7,170
Estimate
FRANK HURLEY (1885-1962) Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914: a portfolio including 38 photographs and three printed maps, all marked up for publication, the photographs 15 x 20in. (38.1 x 50.8cm.) and smaller; together with the popular edition of Sir Douglas Mawson's The Home of the Blizzard (London: 1930). The majority of the photographs appear from the printer's markings to have been used for the first two volume edition of Mawson's The Home of the Blizzard published by William Heinemann, London, 1913. (42)
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