b'1581130 A high-spot of Polar Exploration, Cherry-Garrards book stands Apsley CHERRY-GERRARD (1886-1959), as a seminal work in polar exploration literature, capturing the harrowing experiences of the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition The Worst Journey in the World : Antarctic :to Antarctica led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Drawing 1910 - 1913, from his own firsthand experiences as a member of Scotts [London : Constable and Company, 1922] in two vols. Originalexpedition, Cherry-Garrards narrative is both a testament to quarter linen over blue paper boards, printed paper spinehuman resilience and an exploration of the psychological and labels, edges untrimmed, half-titles, 8vo. First Edition, lxiv 300physical tolls exacted by extreme conditions. Through vivid [4], viii 301-585 [1], retaining binders blank at rear of volumeprose and keen observation, he chronicles the triumphs and 2; illustrated with 58 plates including colour frontispieces, withtragedies of the expedition, from the treacherous journey to tissue-guards, and 10 folding panoramas (only found in thecollect emperor penguin eggs in the dead of winter to the first edition), 5 maps (4 folding). Collated complete. heart-wrenching loss of Scott and his companions on their return from the South Pole.PROVENANCE $5,0007,500both volumes with the ownership details Margaret S. Willis, 8 Cavendish Avenue, Cambridge. in pen to front pastedowns. (2 vols.). 1131BOOKS: The Heart of the Antarctic by Shackleton (1932), The Crossing of Antarctica by Fuchs and Hillary (1958); High Latitude by Davis (1962), Blizzard and Fire by Bechervaise (1963), Mawson - A Life by Ayres (1999), and Antarctica - A Biography by Day (2012, signed). (Total: 6 vols).$100150 1132A framed $100 Mawson banknote, countersigned by the original signatories circa 2000, Tony Cole (Secretary to the Treasury) and Bernie Fraser (Governor of the Reserve Bank), mounted framed and glazed with the original signatures of the then Governor General (William Deane), then Prime Minister (John Howard), then Treasurer (Peter Costello) and the world famous Antarctic Explorer and conqueror of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary. Numbered 24/50, the presentation was created to raise funds for the conservation of the historic huts as Cape Denison, used as a base by the Mawson-led Expedition of 1911-14.$500750 1133SIR EDMUND HILLARY (1919 - 2008) signed New Zealand $5 banknote depicting him and Mount Everest on the front (where he has signed) and a yellow-eyed Antarctic penguin on the reverse of a second $5 banknote.Mounted, framed and glazed for the Antarctic Heritage Trust;overall 33 x 50cm.$300500 1130'