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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Denis Joachim Collection
• Sale Date:
  19 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 1: Lots 1 - 321
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 10am - Session 2: Lots 322 - 480
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 3: Lot 481 - 688
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 6pm - Session 4: Lots 689 - 818
• Lot #:
  427
• Lot Description:
  Mawson, Douglas. The Home of the Blizzard: Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition
  1911 – 1914. Two volumes, thick octavo, titles printed in two colours, with in total 196 leaves of monochrome plates (including a photogravure frontispieces with titling-tissue), seven double-page plates, and two folding plates, eighteen leaves of coloured plates with titling-tissues, and three large folding tinted maps in an end-pocket to Volume II, other illustrations (including maps) in the text, original silver pictorial dark blue cloth. London, William Heinemann, 1915.
• Notes:
  First edition. The classic account of Mawson’s first expedition, an epic of endurance which, together with his subsequent work in the Antarctic, forms the most significant basis to Australia’s claim to its extensive Antarctic Territory. Mawson’s book includes a self-effacing account of his epic journey across five hundred kilometres of Adelie Land in 1912, without a tent and most of his food, one of the great feats of human endurance. Renard, 1021-2; Rosove, 217.A1; Spence, 774.
• Estimate:
  A$1,500 - 1,800
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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