18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 2183
 

2183

Shackleton (Ernest H.). The Heart of the Antarctic, 1st edition, 1909, & 8 others

Shackleton (Ernest H.). The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, 1st edition, trade issue, London: William Heinemann, 1909. 2 volumes, 4to, original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, titles and vignettes to front boards in silver, volume 2 with the errata slip, all plates and maps as called for (including 3 folding maps and one folding panorama in end-pocket), spines sunned, chipped and nicked at ends, light cockling to covers, corners rubbed through and slightly bumped,
[Brown, R. N. Rudmose, & others]. The Voyage of the "Scotia", being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration in Antarctic Seas. By Three of the Staff, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906. 8vo, original grey pictorial cloth, all plates and maps as called for, spine rubbed as usual and slightly worn at extremities, pale mark to front cover, abrasion to rear, text spotted, ink-stamps of Cheltenham Public Library to one plate and folding map, deaccession stamp to rear free endpaper, folding map loose and crudely tape-repaired, plate facing p. 258 nicked in margins,
Nordenskjöld (Otto). Antarctica, or Two Years amongst the Ice of the South Pole, 1st edition in English, London: Hurst & Blackett, Limited, 1905. 8vo, original green cloth, frontispiece, 5 colour plates, 4 maps (3 folding), spine nicked, covers slightly marked, closed tear to folding map facing p. 316,
Priestley (Raymond E.). Antarctic Adventure. Scott's Northern Party, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1914. 8vo, original blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver, all plates and maps as called for, binding rubbed, rear inner hinge loose,
and 5 others (not collated), including Douglas Mawson, The Home of the Blizzard, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, [1915] (2 volumes, 4to, original cloth), Levick, Antarctic Penguins, 1st edition, 1914 (8vo, original cloth) and similar (qty: 11)

Rosove 305.B1 a (Shackleton), 50.A1 a (Brown), 240.A1 (Nordensköld), 256.A1 (Priestley).

Sold for £750
Estimated at £300 - £500


 

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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