MAWSON, Sir Douglas.
The Home of the Blizzard,
being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 ... illustrated in Colour and Black and White, also with Maps.
Description
First edition. 2 vols, 8vo, [2 (blank)], xxx, 348, [1], [3 (blank)]; [2 (blank)], xiii, [1 (blank)], 337, [1], [4 (imprint, blanks)] pp., with numerous illustrations and charts in text, photographic frontispiece portraits (captioned on tissue guards) and 218 plates (many with multiple illustrations), of which 9 double-page and 18 printed in colour (each captioned on a tissue guard), 3 large folding maps with printed colour loosely inserted in vol. II; short marginal tear to plate facing I, p162; publisher's dark blue cloth gilt, upper boards pictorially blocked in silver; a very good copy.
Bibliography
Taurus, 100; Rosove, 217.A1.a.
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