Antarctica. Philadelphia: Allen, Lane and Scott, 1902. 4to. 3 folding maps. Publisher's gilt-titled red cloth. Shelfwear, smudges to some pages. Provenance: Lawrence [Massachusetts] Public Library, gift of the author (bookplate). WITH: Another copy, shelfwear, lightly thumbed. PRESENTATION COPY, along with another first edition of this scarce title. Balch, a lawyer by training, was also an artist who exhibited at the Philadelphia Society of Artists. He took up mountaineering in the 1880s and became interested in glaciers, leading to this history of the exploration of Antarctica, published while both Scott's Discovery expedition and Nordenskjöld's Swedish Antarctic Expedition were in progress. Rosove 24.A1.d; Spence 83 and 84.
Antarctica. Philadelphia: Allen, Lane and Scott, 1902. 4to. 3 folding maps. Publisher's gilt-titled red cloth. Shelfwear, smudges to some pages. Provenance: Lawrence [Massachusetts] Public Library, gift of the author (bookplate). WITH: Another copy, shelfwear, lightly thumbed. PRESENTATION COPY, along with another first edition of this scarce title. Balch, a lawyer by training, was also an artist who exhibited at the Philadelphia Society of Artists. He took up mountaineering in the 1880s and became interested in glaciers, leading to this history of the exploration of Antarctica, published while both Scott's Discovery expedition and Nordenskjöld's Swedish Antarctic Expedition were in progress. Rosove 24.A1.d; Spence 83 and 84.
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