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SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY) [The Heart of the Antarctic] The Antarctic Book. Winter Quarters 1907-1909, ONE OF 300 COPIES, William Heinemann, 1909 image 1
SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY) [The Heart of the Antarctic] The Antarctic Book. Winter Quarters 1907-1909, ONE OF 300 COPIES, William Heinemann, 1909 image 2
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SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY)
[The Heart of the Antarctic] The Antarctic Book. Winter Quarters 1907-1909, ONE OF 300 COPIES, William Heinemann, 1909

14 September 2021, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY)

[The Heart of the Antarctic] The Antarctic Book. Winter Quarters 1907-1909, ONE OF 300 COPIES, signed by 14 (of 16) members of the shore party on a sheet headed "The British Antarctic Expedition 1907 - 1909", 4 tipped-in colour portraits (Shackleton, Frank Wild, Eric Marshall, and Jameson Boyd Adams), 6 etched plates by George Marston, one linocut, lacks second sheet of signatures (Mawson and Edgeworth Davis), other sheet of signatures loose, light spotting to margins of the etchings, publisher's vellum-backed boards, rubbed [cf. Taurus Collection 57; Spence 1096], 4to, William Heinemann, 1909

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ONE OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE SHORE PARTY OF THE BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION IN THE NIMROD, including E.H. Shackleton, Frank Wild, Ray Priestley, Ernest Joyce, George Marston, and James Murray. This copy lacks the sheet with the signatures of Edgeworth Davis and Douglas Mawson.

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