maritime history - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

560 SCOTT, Robert Falcon. Scott’s last expedition. Vol. I. Being the journals of
Captain R.F. Scott. Vol. II. Being the reports of the journeys & the scientific work
undertaken by E.A. Wilson and the surviving members of the expedition. Arranged
by L. Huxley. With a preface by Cl.R. Markham. (Second edition). London, Smith,
Elder & Co, 1913.
2 volumes. Original blue cloth (sl. rubbed), lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. With c. 300
partly folding maps and photographic plates (18 in colours) by Herbert G. Ponting.
XXVI,633; XIV,534 pp. € 325,00
The official account of Scott’s second and last polar expedition. This British
Antarctic Expedition (1910-13) almost failed on her way south, when the Terra Nova
was caught in a terrific storm. Scott finally reached the South Pole on 17 January
1912, 33 days after Amundsen’s expedition. Scott and the four men with him perished
on the return trip in 1913. ‘It is a harrowing and courageous story, which earned
its place in the canons of polar literature’ (Stam. Books on ice, p.88). Herbert
Ponting, the photographer, made the first moving picture documentary of this
Antarctic expedition.
Spence 1059; Headland 1440; Conrad p.188.
561 SHACKLETON, Ernest Henry. Mijn Zuidpool-tocht. Het verhaal van mijn
expeditie naar het Zuidpool-gebied. Bewerkt door A. Tervooren. Amst., (1921).
Cloth. With folding map and 88 photographic illustrations. 378 pp. € 35,00
‘The failure of Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-17 to even
reach the Antarctic continent, much less cross it via the South Pole, has become the
great polar success story of the twentieth century’ (Stam, Books on ice, p.100).
562 SHACKLETON, Lady & H. R. MILL. Shackletons’s leven en reizen.
Vertaald door A. Moresco. Amst., Em Querido, 1923. Original decorated cloth. With
4 maps and 35 photographic plates. 356 pp. - ‘In retrospect Shackleton still appears
as one of the most charismatic of polar leaders’ (Stam, Books on ice, p.101). € 35,00
563 SIRELIUS, U.T. Über die Sperrfischerei bei den finnisch-ugrischen Völkern.
Eine vergleichende ethnographische Untersuchung. Helsingfors, 1906. 4to. Original
printed wrappers (sl. dam.). With 607 illustrations. (6),486 pp. - (Société Finno-
Ougrienne). € 175,00
564 SORENSEN, J. Fridtjof Nansen sage. Vertaling van A. Röntgen. ‘s Grav., (ca.
1935). Cloth. With many illustrations. 395 pp. € 25,00
565 SPENCE, B. The story of whaling harpooned. Greenwich, (1980). 4to.
Boards, with dustwrapper. With many illustrations. 192 pp. € 30,00
566 STEGER, W. and P. SCHURKE. North to the Pole. London, (1988). Boards.
With plates (sl. dam.). XII,339 pp. € 15,00