Author: SHACKLETON, E. H.; C.V.O.
Title: The Heart Of The Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09. With an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill,D.Sc. An Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T. W. Edgeworth David, F.R.S.
Description: First Edition; 2 Volumes, Thick Super Roy. 8vo; Vol.1 pp. xlviii, 372; photogravure portrait frontispiece, 104 pages of plates in all 125 illustrations, (of which 6 are full-page colour plates with titled tissues, 77 are full-page b/w. plates & 3 are double-page), 11 illustrations in text, Vol.2 pp. xvi, 420 (last blank); 3 folding maps and 2 panoramas on large folding sheet, photogravure frontispiece, 6 pages of coloured plates with titled tissues, 95 pages of plates in all 142 illustrations, ( of which 51 are full-page plates, 74 are half page, four pages have 3 illustrations each and one page has 4 illustrations), 1 double-page plate & 38 text illustrations, 10 appendices, index, newly bound in contemporary style in full blue cloth, title lettered in silver on black title label, the illustrations from the original bindings laid down on the upper boards of the new binding, very good set. London; William Heinemann; 1909.

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