Shackleton, Ernest.

First edition, one of 300 copies signed by all the members of the shore party, 3 volumes (including The Antarctic Book), 4to (270 x 220mm.), numerous plates and illustrations, including 3 folding maps and a folding panorama in pocket at end of vol.2, original vellum with gilt penguin motif on covers (The Antarctic Book in original vellum-backed boards), top edges gilt, others uncut, [Spence 1098; Taurus Collection 57], upper covers slightly marked

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A fine copy of "the most luxurious publication ever to have appeared during the 'heroic age' of Antarctic exploration" (Taurus).

"The shore party consisted of fifteen men, including Shackleton. Professor T. W. Edgeworth David and Douglas Mawson had embarked at Sydney. Their sledge journey to the south magnetic pole was one of the three foremost achievements of this expedition. The other two achievements were, first, the ascent and survey of Mount Erebus (12,448 feet), the active volcano on Ross Island and, second, the southern sledge journey, which reached within 100 miles of the south pole" (ODNB).