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Shackleton, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic
Shackleton, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic
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Shackleton, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. London: William Heinemann, 1909. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, titles and pictorial vignettes in silver, all plates and maps as called for (including folding panorama and 3 folding maps in end-pocket), errata slip, bindings marked, browning to endpapers, very occasional light spotting, volume 2 frontispiece dog-eared; Scott, Robert F. The Voyage of the 'Discovery'. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1905. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, lacking plate facing volume 1 p. 137 (Mount Minto: Admiralty Range), spines toned, spotting; Idem. Scott's Last Expedition. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1913. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, all plates as called for (volume 2 with duplicate of the sketch map to face p. 284 bound in before p. 252), variable spotting, erosion to upper fore corners of volume 1 pp. 460 to end; Mill, Hugh Robert. The Life of Ernest Shackleton. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1933. 8vo, original cloth, 11 plates, inscribed 'Presented to Shackleton House, Hounslow College by Cecily Shackleton, 1938' on the front free endpaper, with a quotation from Robert Browning in the same hand (Cecily Shackleton, 1906-1957, was the daughter of Ernest), covers sunned; Nansen, Fridtjof. "Farthest North". London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial blue-green cloth gilt, all plates and maps as called for, closed tear in general map, Idem. In Northern Mists. London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 4to, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, tipped-in colour frontispieces, extremities rubbed, spines toned Amundsen, Roald. The South Pole. London: John Murray, 1912. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, incomplete (lacking at least the frontispiece in volume 1), covers marked, spotting, volume 2 front inner hinge cracked (13)
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Shackleton, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic

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