BORCHGREVINK, Carsten Egebert (1864-1934). Report on the Collections of Natural History made in the Antarctic Regions During the Voyage of the “Southern Cross”. London: Order of the Trustees for Longman & Co., British Museum (Natural History), et al, 1902.
Royal 8vo. 53 plates (of which 9 chromolithographed). Original dark green cloth, gilt-lettered spine (spine gently darkened, some rubbing to extremities, call number stamped in gilt at foot of spine). Provenance: The Trustees of the British Museum (presentation bookplate); Bournemouth Public Libraries (rubberstamps throughout including on all the plates); Ann Savours Shirley (1927-2022), ownership inscription and booklabel. Shirley was a British historian and collector of polar exploration, more notably the head curator at the Scott Polar Institute at Cambridge University and editor of numerous scholarly works on Robert Falcon Scott.
FIRST EDITION. Contents include, Edward A. Wilson on Antarctic seals, and extensive extracts from the diary of the zoologist Nicolai Hanson, tragically killed in 1899, “a great loss to the expedition, as it was to science generally, for, either from want of knowledge or want of care on the part of the survivors, his collections suffered considerably” (E.R. Lankester, preface). Rosove 46.A1; Renard 865; Spence 968.