The North Pole

With an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. Quarto, lettered boards with pictorial only (a little rubbed), contemporary owner’s name of Frank H. Downer dated Xmas 1910 to front free endpaper, pp. xii; 326, illustrated with 116 photographic plates and a folding map of the Arctic. A very good copy.

Provenance :

Frank H. Downer (1863 – 1938), of the South Australian Downer political family, brother of John Downer, former Premier of South Australia, uncle of Sir Alexander Russell “Alick” Downer, Minister for Immigration under Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies, great-uncle of Alexander Downer, Minister for Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister John Howard, and great-great-uncle of Georgina Menzies, Chief Executive Officer of the Robert Menzies Institute.