Lot 167
Antarctic.- Shackleton (Ernest H.) South, first edition, 1919.
Hammer Price: £1,800
Description
Antarctic.- Shackleton (Ernest H.) South, first edition, half-title, colour frontispiece, plates, folding map, browning to margins as usual, original pictorial cloth, printed in silver, extrmities slightly bumped, 8vo, 1919.
⁂ An excellent copy of Shackleton's account of the 1914-17 Antarctic expedition with his epic adventure across treacherous seas to rescue his crew left behind following The Endurance becoming stuck in pack ice.
Description
Antarctic.- Shackleton (Ernest H.) South, first edition, half-title, colour frontispiece, plates, folding map, browning to margins as usual, original pictorial cloth, printed in silver, extrmities slightly bumped, 8vo, 1919.
⁂ An excellent copy of Shackleton's account of the 1914-17 Antarctic expedition with his epic adventure across treacherous seas to rescue his crew left behind following The Endurance becoming stuck in pack ice.
