18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
2174
Wild (Frank)
Shackleton's Last Voyage: The Story of the "Quest". From the Official Journal and Private Diary kept by Dr. A. H. Macklin, London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1923. 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, colour frontispiece, 50 halftone photographic plates, corners slightly bumped and rubbed, front inner hinge very superficially cracked, occasional spotting to text, marginal staining to gutter of plate facing p. 83.
Rosove 349.A1.
First edition, first impression, published in May 1923; there was a third Cassell impression by November that year, and a New York edition bound up from the UK sheets with a cancel title-page with the imprint of Frederick A. Stokes.
Sold for £450
Estimated at £150 - £250
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 18th May, 2022
Over 180 lots to include a broad selection, from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, and historic documents. Amongst the highlights is a group of Victorian ephemera including a Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, and a very unusual leaf-cut picture of workers around a derelict tower and trees. Of North-East interest is a collection of approximately 240 19th and early 20th century photographs, and an outstanding archive of early drawings and plans relating to Radcliffe and Broomhill Collieries.
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Tuesday 17 May 10am-5pm and morning of sale from 8am. Viewing is open to the public, there is no need to make an appointment.
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