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Shackleton, Ernest.
Shackleton's Antarctica.
Publisher: The Folio Society, London;
Date of Publication: 2021
Stock Code: 15438
First folio society printing. Three volumes plus four folding maps and panoramas tipped into envelope. Octavos, pp., lviii, 298; xvi, 301-690; xxi, [1], 370. Frontispieces to each volume, colour and black-and-white plates, in-text illustrations, maps, plus folding map within pocket to end of ‘South’. Uniform publisher’s navy-blue cloth; titled in silver to spines; silver vignettes to upper boards; top edges silver. Housed in ice-white and blue buckram-covered slipcase; lined with blue and silver pictorial paper. Very minor shelf-wear to slipcase, otherwise no noticeable flaws or imperfections. A near-fine set. A superbly presented set of Shackleton’s stirring accounts of Antarctic exploration. Published to celebrate the centenary of Shackleton’s expeditions, these volumes faithfully reproduce in facsimile the remarkable photographs taken by Shackleton’s crews on their exploration of the Polar South. An excellent set.Heavyweight, so an additional postage contribution may be requested for shipping to overseas addresses. £350.00