Lot 294
Scott, Robert Falcon -- Shackleton, Ernest H. and others, editors
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 17 May 2017 at 12:00 BST
Description
South Polar Times. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1907-1907-1914. First edition, 3 volumes, 4to., volume 1 and 2 number 184 of 250 copies, volume 3 number 267 of 350 copies, numerous plates, maps and illustrations, some chromolithographed, after Herbert Ponting, Edmund Wilson and others, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, g.e., some leaves of volumes 2-3 becoming detached from gutta percha binding, some slight dampflecking to bindings, volume 2 very slightly rubbed (3)
Footnote
Note: An important work and a cornerstone of any Antarctic collection. "The owner of these volumes will possess an exact reproduction of the original 'South Polar Times' which appeared month by month during the winters of 1902-3, produced as they were for the sole edification of our small company of explorers in the 'Discovery' then held fast in the Antarctic ice" (Robert F. Scott, from the Preface).