Lot 287
Amundsen, Roald
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 13 January 2016 at 11:00 GMT
£800
Description
The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram". London: John Murray, 1912. First English edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, photographic plates and folding maps, original pictorial burgundy cloth with guilt lettering to spines, some browning to endpapers, some light marginal spotting, occasional pencil annotations in volume 1, some plates semi-detached, one plate in volume II detached, folding map in volume 2 torn, slight wear to head and foot of spines, extremities lightly rubbed, clean copy. (2)