Lot 259 , Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir - The Heart of the Antarctic, 1st edition, 2 vols, qto, original blue cloth, with two frontises, 3 folded

Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir - The Heart of the Antarctic, 1st edition, 2 vols, qto, original blue cloth, with two frontises, 3 folded maps, panoramas and 12 colour plates, inner joints split, rear board of Vol.1 stained, front fly leaf on vol. 1 with owner's inscriptions - Flora M. Steele and Kathleen Shackleton (1884-1961 Ernest Shackleton's sister) the latter stating "The officers had sled flags presented to them by their loving women in the Scott 1901 Expedition. These flags were their family arms. Ernest's had the Shackleton motto "Fortitudine Vincimus" on his and the boat of his 1914 expedition was named the "Endurance", Kathleen Shackleton"., front fly leaf of vol. 2 with owner's inscription repeated, above a further inscription by Kathleen Shackleton - "Let a man contend to the uttermost for his life's set prize, be what it will", "The Statue and the Bust", - Robert Browning
"This was Ernest's favourite quotation and Browning was his favourite poet, Kathleen Shackleton, In Montreal, April 29th, 1929"
J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadpelphia 1909
Originally from Lord Waring's library at Gopsall Hall, Warwickshire, now offered for sale by a direct descendant.
Estimate £1,200-1,600


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Sold for £1,700