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A 1920 edition of South, signed by Ernest Shackleton.

Art Curiosa Collection

Boston Weekly Magazine. Boston: D.H. Ela and J.B. Hall, 1838.

Brame, Charlotte M. The Belle of Lynn, or The Miller’s Daughter. New York: F.M. Lupton, 1893.

Catalogue of Frank Tousey’s Popular Music. New York: Frank Tousey’s Publishing House, 1890.

Dennie, Joseph. The Port Folio. Philadelphia: William Fry, 1801.

The Five Cent Comic Library. New York: Frank Tousey.

Fonblanque, Albany, John Forster, and Leigh Hunt. The Examiner: A Sunday Paper On Politics, Domestic Economy, and Theatricals. London: Hunt, 1808.

The Independent. New York, Boston: S.W. Benedict; 1848-1924; the Independent Publications, 1924-1928.

The Novelette. Boston: G.W. Studley, 1897.

Scott, Walter. The Black Dwarf. New York: F.M. Lupton, 1893.

The Scranton Republican. Scranton, Pa.: [s.n.].

Early American Imprints

The Balance and Columbian Repository. Hudson, N.Y.: E. Sampson, G. Chittenden, and H. Croswell, 1802.

The New England Farmer. Boston: Thomas W. Shepard, 1822.

James Wheeler Collection

Bullen, Frank Thomas. The Cruise of the Cachalot: Round the World After Sperm Whales. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1923.

Cook, James, and J. C. Beaglehole. The Journals of Captain James Cook On His Voyages of Discovery. Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1967.

Cook, James. A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1777.

Davis, John King. With the “Aurora” in the Antarctic, 1911-1914. London: Andrew Melrose, Ltd., 1919.

Fuchs, Vivian. The Crossing of Antarctica: The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1955-1958. First American edition. Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1958.

Giæver, John., et al. The White Desert: The Official Account of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition. London: Chatto & Windus, 1954.

Gwynn, Stephen. Captain Scott. Crown 8vo edition. London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd., 1932.

Headland, Robert. Chronological List of Antarctic Expeditions and Related Historical Events. Cambridge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Hurley, Frank. Argonauts of the South: Being a Narrative of Voyagings and Polar Seas and Adventures in the Antarctic With Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton, With 75 Illustrations and Maps. New York; London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1925.

Jones, A. G. E. Antarctica Observed: Who Discovered the Antarctic Continent? Whitby, Yorkshire, England: Caedmon of Whitby, 1982.

Macdonald, William Arthur. A Farewell to Commander Byrd. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1929.

Marret, Mario, and Edward Fitzgerald. Seven Men Among the Penguins: An Antarctic Venture. First American edition. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955.

Migot, André, and K. C. Jordan. Thin Edge of the World. Boston ; Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1956.

Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans. South With Scott. London ; Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1920.

Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans. South With Scott. New and revised edition, 1948. London ; Glasgow: Collins, 1948.

Neider, Charles. Edge of the World: Ross Island, Antarctica; a Personal and Historical Narrative; Illustrated With Maps, Black-and-white Photographs, and With Thirty-three Color Photographs By the Author. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.

Ommanney, F. D. South Latitude. London, New York, Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1938.

Poynter, C.W. -1878., and R.J Campbell. The Discovery of the South Shetland Islands: The Voyages of the Brig Williams 1819-1820 As Recorded in Contemporary Documents and the Journal of Midshipman C. W. Poynter. London: The Hakluyt Society, 2000.

Scott, Robert Falcon, Leonard Huxley, Edward Wilson, and Herbert George Ponting. Scott’s Last Expedition in Two Volumes: Vol. I. Being the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O. Vol II. Being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken By Dr. E.A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913.

Shackleton, Ernest Henry. South: The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition, 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann, 1920.

Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Hugh Robert Mill, and T. W. Edgeworth 1858-1934 David. The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1909.

Weddell, James. A Voyage Towards the South Pole, Performed in the Years 1822-24: Containing an Examination of the Antarctic Sea, to the Seventy-fourth Degree of Latitude: And a Visit to Tierra Del Fuego, With a Particular Account of the Inhabitants; to Which Is Added, Much Useful Information On the Coasting Navigation of Cape Horn, and the Adjacent Lands, With Charts of Harbours &c. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825.

Wilson, Edward, and Ann Savours. Diary of the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic Regions, 1901-1904. London: Blandford Press, 1966.

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