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Lot 508
Sale 4605 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jun 20, 2019
6:00AM ET
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Lot Description
[Travel & Exploration] Shackleton, Sir E(rnest). H(enry). The Heart of the Antarctic
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1909. In two volumes. First American edition. 4to. Two frontispieces plus 145 leaves of plates, including 12 color plates with lettered tissue guards, three folding color maps, and a folding double-panorama leaf in rear pocket of the second volume. Original undecorated blue cloth, lettered in silver, top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. Corners slightly bumped, spine ends lightly rubbed, covers and spine moderately scuffed, front hinges stressed, rear hinges starting to separate; text very lightly toned. Rosove 305.C1b; [Renard 1448], indicating the binding variant above.