Search Results: Aurora Australis by E H Shackleton

Surry Hills, NSW, Australia: Reader's Digest, 1985. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover with laminated pictorial boards, first edition, 1785gms, 319 pages, dark blue endpapers. The complete story of a unique continent: its history, wildlife, scientific discoveries and resources, richly illustrated with 900 paintings, drawings, maps, diagrams and a collection of rare historical photographs. Book is in very good condition with only very minor general wear and tear and light page discolouration/spotting throughout, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Book weighs over 1.5kg and may incur additional postage..

New Zealand: Seto Publishing. Good. Hardcover. 1988. 0 .

Airlife, 1988. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover.. Facsimile of first book printed and published in Antarctica. "Hand bound with twine, into covers of packing case and seal skin, only a very few copies of the Aurora Australis were produced.

Sydney, Bay Books, 1988.. 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.

England: Airlife. 1988. 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 Edition. Boards.

Sydney / London: Bay Books, 1988 F-/VG+. 4to. original brown boards gilt (paperstock toned, as usual) in dustwrapper (a trifle rubbed & sunned, some creasing to lowwer panel); pp. xxiv (last blank), unpaginated, with illustrations. A very good copy. [Not in Neate]. Contains an account of the first ascent of Mount Erebus by T.W. Edgeworth David.. Facsimile. Hard Cover. F-/VG+.

Folio Society. 2021. 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 Limited Ed.. Boards.