Shackleton, Ernest and L.C. Bernacchi.

first edition, number 44 of a limited edition of 250 copies, volumes 1-2 (of 3, see footnote), 4to (275 x 209mm.), half-titles, frontispieces, numerous maps, coloured and plain illustrations, full-page and in the text, original blue ribbed pictorial cloth gilt, gilt edges, inset illustration of the Discovery, some spotting and browning to prelims

N.A. Tombazis, bookplate (see also lots 256-224 and introduction)

Spence 1094; Taurus Collection 42

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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a handsome set of the first two volumes of this publication, a facsimile of original issues of the South Polar Times printed in the Antarctic by members of the Discovery expedition during the winters of 1902 and 1903.

A third volume, edited by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, appeared in 1914, and related to the 1910-1913 expedition, not the earlier Discovery expedition dealt with in these two volumes. It also has a different limitation, so in many senses the first two volumes constitute a work in their own right.