Lot 224: Shackleton, Ernest and L.C. Bernacchi. , The South Polar Times. London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1907

first edition , number 44 of a limited edition of 250 copies, volumes 1-2 (of 3, see footnote), 4to (275 x 209mm.), half-titles, frontispieces, numerous maps, coloured and plain illustrations, full-page and in the text, original blue ribbed pictorial cloth gilt, gilt edges, inset illustration of the Discovery, some spotting and browning to prelims

Spence 1094; Taurus Collection 42

N.A. Tombazis, bookplate (see also lots 256-224 and introduction)

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a handsome set of the first two volumes of this publication, a facsimile of original issues of the South Polar Times printed in the Antarctic by members of the Discovery expedition during the winters of 1902 and 1903. A third volume, edited by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, appeared in 1914, and related to the 1910-1913 expedition, not the earlier Discovery expedition dealt with in these two volumes. It also has a different limitation, so in many senses the first two volumes constitute a work in their own right.