HURLEY, Frank. Argonauts of the South … Being a Narrative of Voyagings and Polar Seas and Adventures in the Antarctic with Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton. New York & London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925.
8vo. Original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, photographic endpapers; pp. xvi, 290; 75 photographic plates, 2 maps; a little darkened on spine, cloth mimally marked, else a very good copy, ownership inscription to front fly-leaf.
First edition. Hurley accompanied both Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-14) and Shackleton's Imperial Transantarctic Expedition (1914-17), during which time he took some of the most memorable Antarctic photographs of the era. The book has become scarce.
Provenance: Brian Birley Roberst was a British polar researcher, ornithologist and instrumental in the development of the Scott Polar Research Institute. In 1934 he had joined he joined the three-year British Graham Land Expedition to the Antarctic led by John Rymill.
Spence 615; Renard 768; Rosove 178.A1.
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