Bonhams 1793 : FILCHNER (WILHELM) Zum sechsten Erdteil. Die zweite Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition, FIRST EDITION, Berlin, Ullstein, 1922

Zum sechsten Erdteil. Die zweite Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, half-title, maps, charts and plans (several folding, one printed in colours), numerous photographic plates and illustrations, advertisement leaf at end, errata slip, original receipt of purchase (5 April, 1923, sent by Alfred Kling to W. Heynacker in Minneapolis) loosely inserted, publisher's cloth-backed boards [Conrad, p.184; Rosove 124.A1; Spence 457; Taurus 99; OCLC 4117254], 4to (270 x 187mm.), Berlin, Ullstein, 1922

Sold for £562 inc. premium

Footnotes

First trade edition, with the presentation stamp of Captain Alfred Kling, initially watch-officer and later captain of Filchner's ship Deutschland. Kling had relatives in Minnesota and probably sent this book to them from Germany.

Filchner launched a scientific expedition to the Antarctic in 1911, travelling south from South Georgia into the Weddell Sea. The Deutschland was trapped in the ice in early 1912, the same fate as happened to the previous German expedition, and Shackleton's Endurance three years later.

Provenance: W. Heynacker, Minneapolis (with original note of purchase, Berlin, 1923, seemingly a gift from Alfred Kling); Martin L. Greene (Seattle) from Bob Finch (High Latitude), 1998.

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