REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS MADE DURING THE VOYAGE OF THE "QUEST" On the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition to the South Atlantic and Weddell Sea in 1921-1922.

First edition. Publisher's original burgundy cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the original glassine dustwrapper. Photographic frontispiece and two further plates, 21 sketch maps (five of which are full-page), three figures and two graphs within the text. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with the bookplate of Clinton E. Geiser to the front pastedown, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the plain original glassine that has a couple of short tears without loss to the folds.

This volume collects the bulk of the scientific results from the voyage of the Quest, during which Shackleton lost his life. (Taurus 113; Rosove 313.A1).