拍品 384
  • 384

Davis, John King

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1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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描述

  • Davis, John King
  • With the “Aurora” in the Antarctic 1911-1914. London: Andrew Melrose, [1919]
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (236 x 165mm.), xxii, 184pp., half-title, one folding map, 47 plates with numerous photographs and maps, illustrations and further maps in text, original pictorial dark blue cloth gilt, pictorial dust-jacket, slipcase, slight edge wear to jacket

Davis was captain of the Aurora on the 1911-1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition led by Douglas Mawson.

出版

Rosove 87.A1a ("Scarce. Dust-wrapper rare."); Spence 354; Taurus Collection 101

Condition

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