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British Antarctic Expedition rare books
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First edition. 8vo, [iv], 37, [iii]pp., one of only 75 numbered copies printed, this number 49, publisher's cloth-backed salmon coloured paper boards. with the publisher's glassine dust wrapper still intact, 2 light wear to glassine, modern blue morocco foldover box, a fine copy.
£15,000 -
First edition, 3 volumes, 4to, one of 300 copies containing the signature of every member of the shore party, illustrated throughout with mounted colour plates, photographic plates, drypoint etchings, maps, diagrams, etc., including 4 folding charts and panoramas in pocket at end of vol. II, original vellum gilt (first 2 volumes) and original vellum-backed boards (third volume), a fine, clean copy largely free from the soiling and bowing that usually blights the work.
£37,500 -
First edition, 8vo., 24pp., 8 photographic illustrations, original wrappers printed in red, ads to covers, a very good example.
£1,250 -
Folio.187-220, v-x pp., photographic illustrations, original wrappers, a fine copy and a rare survival thus.
£1,500 -
First edition, 8vo, [4]ads., [ii], 4-24, [2]ads.pp., portrait frontispiece & 7 further photographic plates, original wrappers printed in red, ads to rear and inner covers, a very good example.
£1,250