Polar exploration Collection of works

Polar exploration Collection of works Shackleton, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. London: William Heinemann, 1909. First trade edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver and gilt, top edges gilt, photogravure frontispieces, 3 folding maps and sheet containing 2 folding panoramas loose in end-pocket as issued, errata slip to volume 2, spines sunned, tips bumped, volume 1 spine rolled, volume 2 with small repair to title-page, 'Route ... of the Southern Journey Party' map with short split to foot of central fold and a few small holes to intersections [Rosove 305.B1]; Idem. South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, second impression, 8vo, original black cloth lettered and decorated in silver, all plates as called for, lacking unlisted folding map, mottling to covers, short section of wear to front joint, front inner hinge cracked between initial blank and half-title with webbing visible [Rosove 308.A2]; Scott, Robert F. The Voyage of the 'Discovery'. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1905. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, photogravure frontispieces, 182 plates (of which 13 in colour, the rest nearly all photographic, of which 5 double-page), 5 maps (of which 2 folding in end-pockets), extremities rubbed, nicks to spine-ends, corners bumped (a few showing through), half-titles spotted, folding maps with Mudie's Select Library labels verso and variably split along folds [Rosove 262.A1: '3,000 copies said to have been printed']; Nansen, Fridtjof. The First Crossing of Greenland. Translated from the Norwegian. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth blocked in silver, 12 plates including frontispieces, 5 maps, spines sunned and rolled, light fraying to head and foot, tips bumped, map facing volume 1 p. 1 tape-repaired verso; Idem. In Northern Mists. Arctic Exploration in Early Times. London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, later library cloth, tipped-in colour plates, markings of Keighley public libraries; Nordenskiöld, A. E. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe ... Translated by Alexander Leslie. London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, 5 engraved portraits, 10 folding lithographic maps, bindings rubbed and marked, volume 1 spine rolled, inner hinges cracked, a few short closed handling tears to maps, a few other marks; Abruzzi, Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, duke of the. On the "Polar Star" in the Arctic Sea. Translated by William Le Queux. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1903. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt, 16 plates, 2 folding panoramas, 5 maps, contemporary ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers; Charcot, Jean. The Voyage of the 'Why Not?' in the Antarctic. The Journal of the Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908-1910. English Version by Philip Walsh. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1911]. First edition, 4to, original cloth, all plates as called for, cloth cockled; Payer, Julius. New Lands with the Arctic Circle. Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship "Tegetthoff" in the Years 1872-1874. Translated from the German, with the Author's Approbation. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1877. First US edition, 8vo, original cloth, tinted lithographic frontispieces, folding map, cloth mottled, wear to extremities, inner hinges cracked; Peary, Robert E. The North Pole. Its Discovery in 1909 under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1910. Second edition, 4to, original cloth, all plates as called for, damp-staining to covers; and one other (Scott, Scott's Last Expedition, 1913, first edition, first impression, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, incomplete, lacking at least plate facing p. 393 in volume 1) Qty: (18)