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[SHACKLETON, Ernest (1874-1922), association.] [SMITH, W. Campbell, editor]. Report on the Geological Collections made during the Voyage of the “Quest" On the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition to the South Atlantic & Weddell Sea in 1921-1922. London: Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1930. Printed in Great Britain by William Cowles and Sons, London. 8vo. [i-v], vi, [vii-xii] 161pp, Index [5pp]. Photographic frontispiece, 2 graphs in text, 21 sketch maps – 5 full-page. Publisher's maroon cloth boards with blind stamped ruled borders and bright gilt medallion of the British Museum of Natural History; spine with bright gilt title and date. A very clean copy inside or exterior with publisher's original glassine wrapper (chipping and edgewear to glassine). FIRST EDITION. An exceptional copy in fine condition. Taurus 113. Rosove 313.A1. This volume contains the extent of the scientific results of Sir Ernest Shackleton's last expedition. The geological collections made relating to South Georgia were so considerable and important that Charles Tate Regan, the British Museum's director of natural history, undertook to collect the reports into the present volume.