Nobu Shirase and the Japanese Antarctic Expedition: the Collection of Chet Ross
Thu, Oct 12, 2023 12:00PM EDT
Live Auction
Lot 201
SHACKLETON, Ernest (1874-1922). -- WHITEHOUSE, John Howard ...
Estimate: $250 - $350
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SHACKLETON, Ernest (1874-1922). -- WHITEHOUSE, John Howard (1873-1955). A Visit to Nansen [and] Adventure. London: Oxford University Press for Humphrey Milford, 1928. 2 works in one volume, 8vo. Portrait frontispieces in both sections. Original green cloth-backed boards, printed spine and cover labels, uncut and partially unopened (spine gently sunned, some chipping to spine label, light spotting to textblock fore-edge). Provenance: Beekman Pool (bookplate), travel book collector; Martin L. Greene (booklabel), notable polar book collector whose partial collection sold at Christie?s, 7 December 2017, amassing almost $3m in total sales. FIRST EDITION, a scarce and important work containing the article by Ernest Shackleton which describes the spirit that moved him to explore. Renard 1691; Rosove 1343; Spence 1255; Taurus 132.
