Aurora Australis by Shackleton E H (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reprint of the original 1908 edition. Illustrated. Just a light trace of rubbing to cover edges, else near fine condition in fine dust jacket. (F2).

Hardback complete with dust wrapper. The book measures 10¼" x 7¾, it has xxiii pages of introductory text and the main text pages are not numbered. The book is illustrated with b&w photographs and drawings. The wrapper spine has faded slightly, otherwise, the binding, contents and dust wrapper are in excellent condition. VG+/VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. ISBN 0-908697-24-4. Hardback volume. Reprint edition. Near Fine Condition book in a Near Fine Condition Dustjacket. A tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book.

4to, hardback, xxiii + unpaginated journal. Good condition (light wear; pages yellowed), in like dustwrapper (protective cover, light edge wear, bumped, upper corner of inside front flap lightly creased). ISBN: 1853100609. Pictures available on request.

xxiv+c.160pp. 4to. Original boards in dustwrapper. B&W illustrations. A very good copy. Based on one of the few bound copies of the original `Aurora Australis' from the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-1909.

1st ed. thus hardback with dust jacket Nice copy large octavo 375pp., colour frontis., b/w plates, text ills., fldg. maps, appends., index, Facsimillie of the Julienne copy of one of the 67 original bound copies of Aurora Australis known to exist. An account of Shackleton's 1908/09 exploration on Antarctica."Originally published in 1909 for private circulation only. Following the tradition of overwintering polar expeditions, this publication was prepared by members of Ernest Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909. Neat ownership stamp o/w a nice copy.

hardcover. 1988, A first edition of this facsimile edition. This copy is in very good condition in a very good unclipped d/w with a small chip from the head of the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clean brown boards, decorated endpapers. DJ has no tears or creasing.

Boards. Facsimile Edition. Royal 8vo, pp. xxiv, (approx. 170) unpaginated,b/w ills., illustrated endpapers, original cloth boards, dustjacket. Previous owner's bookplate. Near-fine condition in near-fine d.j. Facsimile edition of the first book published in the Antarctic, from Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909.

facsimile).Octavo,From Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-09.

ppxxiv, (210), 10 full-page plates; 4to, cloth. Very good in dustwrapper. Reprint of the first book published in the Antarctic by Shackleton's 1907-09 expedition. Produced under appalling conditions in order to occupy the men during the winter months, and by men with virtually no printing experience, only 60 copies or so of the first edition are known to exist.

Sydney: Bay Books, (1988). Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (xxivpp, then unpaginated). With numerous illusts. of which 2 col., dec. initials and tailpieces, and illust. endpapers. NOTE: Reprint of the 'Julienne' edition, in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand, which was produced and first published by the British Antarctic Expedition during the winter of 1908.

Sydney: Bay Books 1988. Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket. xxivpp then unpaginated. With numerous illusts. of which 2 col. dec. initials and tailpieces and illust. endpapers. NOTE: Reprint of the 'Julienne' edition in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington New Zealand which was produced and first published by the British Antarctic Expedition during the winter of 1908.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in very good condition. No numbered pages.

Boards. George Marston (Illus.) (illustrator). Limited Ed. Limited edition, No. 16 of 500 hand-numbered copies, quarto, pp.194, complete with the 11 illustrations by George Marston, quarter bound in calf with beechwood timber Venesta boards and stencilled inside the boards. Together with 'A Commentary', 16 pages printed letterpress on Munken paper in green wraps. Presented in a linen-covered dropover box, titled to spine and leather label blind-blocked to front, 'Printed at the Sign of the Penguins' device. Near fine condition. A faithful facsimile in a limited edition of only 500 hand numbered copies to mark the Centenary of Shackleton's death in 2021. 'Aurora Australis" was the first book published in the winter quarters of the British Antarctic Expedition during 1908-09, and reproduced here from Frank Wild's own copy (Copy No.12) with a later presentation inscription to Rudyard Kipling from Shackleton dated 1914. A memento of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.