[SHIRLEY, Ann Savours (1927-2022), her copies]. A group of 13 copies, including:
BARRINGTON, Daines. The Possibility of Approaching the North Pole Asserted… A New Edition. With an Appendix ... by Colonel Beaufoy. London: For T. and J. Allman, 1818. 8vo. Facsimile folding map. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides (rebacked to style, renewed endpapers and blanks). Second edition, but the first under this title and with Beaufoy’s appendix. -- HYADES, P. and J. DENIKER. Mission Scientifique du Cap Horn. 1882-1883. Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1891. 4to. Numerous plates. Original printed yellow wrappers (rebacked). -- WALKER, A. Barclay. The Cruise of the Esquimaux. Liverpool: The Liverpool Printing and Stationery Company, 1909. 8vo. Illustrated from photographs, folding map. Original gilt-lettered green cloth. FIRST EDITION. -- SHACKLETON, Ernest. Au Coeur de l’Antarctique. Paris: Hachette et Cie, 1911. 4to. Illustrated from photographs. Contemporary cloth-backed boards (spine sunned, front joint worn, cracked at title). Later edition.
And others, condition generally good. All with Shirley’s ownership inscriptions or bookplates. 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.