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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. 3 volumes (including the supplement The Antarctic Book Winter Quarters), 4° (268 x 223mm.). Half-titles. Titles (to vols I & II) in brown and black. Plates (a few double-page, some mounted including 16 coloured after George Marston, some etched), 1 folding panorama and 3 folding lithographic maps printed in three colours in pocket at back of vol.II, illustrations. Original vellum (vols I & II) and vellum-backed boards (supplement), covers of vols. I & II blocked in gilt with the two penguins device, spines of all three volumes lettered in gilt, t.e.g., the three volumes within a single cloth-covered board portfolio, within a blue morocco-backed cloth slip-case, the 'spine' of the slipcase titled in gilt. Provenance: Frank Lloyd (presentation inscription by Shackleton on front free endpaper of vol.I: 'To. Frank Lloyd Esqre as a/remembrance of a most/delightful conversation and/as a slight acknowledgement/of his power for good./from the author/Ernest Shackleton/1911.')
A FINE COMPLETE SET OF THE LIMITED EDITION, NUMBER 162 OF 300 COPIES, WITH A PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM SHACKLETON IN VOL.I AND THE SIGNATURES OF ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE SHORE PARTY ON TWO PAGES IN THE 'SUPPLEMENT'.
Conrad p.148; Rosove 305.A2 ('Scarce'); Spence 1096; Taurus 57. (3)
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. 3 volumes (including the supplement The Antarctic Book Winter Quarters), 4° (268 x 223mm.). Half-titles. Titles (to vols I & II) in brown and black. Plates (a few double-page, some mounted including 16 coloured after George Marston, some etched), 1 folding panorama and 3 folding lithographic maps printed in three colours in pocket at back of vol.II, illustrations. Original vellum (vols I & II) and vellum-backed boards (supplement), covers of vols. I & II blocked in gilt with the two penguins device, spines of all three volumes lettered in gilt, t.e.g., the three volumes within a single cloth-covered board portfolio, within a blue morocco-backed cloth slip-case, the 'spine' of the slipcase titled in gilt. Provenance: Frank Lloyd (presentation inscription by Shackleton on front free endpaper of vol.I: 'To. Frank Lloyd Esqre as a/remembrance of a most/delightful conversation and/as a slight acknowledgement/of his power for good./from the author/Ernest Shackleton/1911.')
A FINE COMPLETE SET OF THE LIMITED EDITION, NUMBER 162 OF 300 COPIES, WITH A PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM SHACKLETON IN VOL.I AND THE SIGNATURES OF ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE SHORE PARTY ON TWO PAGES IN THE 'SUPPLEMENT'.
Conrad p.148; Rosove 305.A2 ('Scarce'); Spence 1096; Taurus 57. (3)
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