Dec 04, 2008 - Sale 2165

Sale 2165 - Lot 224

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
SHACKLETON, ERNEST HENRY, Sir. South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917. Plates reproducing photographs by Frank Hurley, including double-page panorama of South George and color frontispiece of the Endurance; folding map. Half-title. Large 8vo, original silver-stamped pictorial cloth, last 2 letters of Shackleton's name on spine rubbed; contents clean. London, 1919

Additional Details

first edition, second printing, of Shackleton''s failed 1914-17 Trans-Antarctic Expedition aboard the Endurance. Books on Ice 7.8; Spence 1107.