SOUTH POLAR TIMES
SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY), L.C. BERNACCHI and APSLEY CHERRY-GARRARD, editors. South Polar Times, 3 vol., LIMITED EDITIONS, volumes 1-2 numbers 126 of 250 copies, volume 3 number 24 of 350 copies, titles and text printed in red and blue, numerous plates and illustrations throughout (many chromolithographed, some mounted) after Herbert Ponting, Edward Wilson and others, very light spotting to a few opening leaves, publisher's blue ribbed cloth gilt, upper covers with colour pictorial inset panels, g.e. [Conrad, pp.111, 121 and 173; Renard 1433 and 1434; Rosove 287.A1 and 291.A2.b; Spence 1094; Taurus 42, 79; OCLC 10187942], 4to (283 x 224mm.), Smith Elder, 1907-1914
Estimate:
£7,000 - 9,000
€8,300 - 11,000
US$ 11,000 - 14,000
€8,300 - 11,000
US$ 11,000 - 14,000
Footnotes
- A FINE SET OF ONE OF THE CORNERSTONES OF ANTARCTIC LITERATURE. The work reproduces, with fine chromolithographed illustrations (mostly after Edward A. Wilson), the original typescripts produced by members of Scott's expeditions. The first two volumes were produced over three winters between 1902 and 1903, whilst the third relates to the Terra Nova expedition. See illustration overleaf.
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