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Not Stated [Ernest E. H. Shackleton advert]
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Title:
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The Dexter Reference Atlas; Atlas of the World
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Description:
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Book is Poor in no dust jacket. green cloth binding,
Wallace, Scott & Co / W. & A. K. Johnston, Glasgow & London, 1921. Disbound with considerable wear to edges of UK maps. Full page advert at front is a facsimile handwritten letter signed E. H. Shackleton, on expedition notepaper of the Shackleton Rowett Antarctic expedition, dated 17th Sept 1921. That is a very significant date, for it is the day Shackleton left England for the last time, sailing on the Quest from St. Katharine's Dock, under Tower Bridge. This is quite possibly the last formal letter he wrote, as there would not be much call for these on the voyage. It is a letter of praise for Dexter Weatherproofs, hence its inclusion in the Atlas. He used all Dexter weatherproofs for the expedition on the Quest, so the whole atlas with its Dexter logos and adverts is a good polar collectable. The maps are by W & AK Johnston of Edinburgh, well known for their quality cartography, and these maps are no exception. They are older style, mainly black fine engraved appearance with colour keylines for county/country boundaries. Every page has an ad for Dexter weatherproof wear. The book definitely needs a trip to the book doctor, the backstrip is split, and the UK maps are generally disbound. The rear of the atlas, pages 19 to 128 and the 99 page indext are all quite firm, so not too much work to get the plates all tipped back in. The edges of the UK plates are all very ragged and chipped, well thumbed, with one 3 inch tear in the Sount west/ north east Scotland plate. We are selling as-is, to leave you the choice to either repair it or frame up the individual plates. There are over 100 maps in here, all very detailed and excellent display pieces in their own right. 19 pages on USA/Canada, including detailed city maps. The Shackleton letter alone would make a great talking point in any polar wall display. Generally we are against breaking up books, but when an item is disbound like this, the choice is not so clear cut. xiv + 128pp + 99pp index + 4pp adverts. Unusually, this includes pages 4a and 4b, and one or two other anomalies, as the world was redrawn so dramatically after the Versailles treaty of 1919, that the publisher has included the hastily redrawn maps as well as the old ones. There are even a few 'Versailles Treaty' stickers and addenda slips.
Size Folio keywords: Ernest E. H. Shackleton Rowett Expedition Quest Antarctica Maps Cartography Charts USA Canada Scotland England
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