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December 2012 Auction Ends Tuesday, December 18th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 12/18/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #261: Antarctic ''Discovery Expedition'' Autograph Letter Signed -- Written by George F.A. Mulock, Who Replaced Ernest Shackleton as the Expedition's Third Lieutenant

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $916

• Lot #318: Arctic Pioneer Sir John Barrow Letter Signed From 1836

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #319: Discoverer of Carbon Dioxide, Joseph Black Lecture Notes -- With Numerous Mathematical Equations and Illustrations -- ''...We shall now proceed to the Metals possessed of Ductility...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #320: Henry Robertson ''Birdie'' Bowers 8-Page Autograph Letter Signed -- From 1907, Five Years Before He Perished on Scott's Terra Nova Expedition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #330: Frederick Cook ''My Attainment of the Pole'' -- Controversial Explorer Signs 1911 First Edition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #335: Mt. Everest 1978 Team-Signed Postcard -- The First Climbers to Reach the Summit Without Supplemental Oxygen

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #336: Rare ''British Mount Everest Expedition to China'' Cover Signed by Expedition Members -- Just Two Months Before Two Team Members Died on Everest

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #342: Sir Edmund Hillary ''High Adventure'' Signed -- ''...it is...not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #343: Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay Signed Cover with Limited Edition Coin Marking 25th Anniversary of Everest's First Ascent

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #345: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #346: African Explorer Mary Henriette Kingsley Autograph Letter Signed -- ...to make people...think about it a more reasonable way...'' -- 1899

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #363: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #364: Robert Falcon Scott Typed Letter Signed on ''British Antarctic Expedition 1910'' Stationery Asking New Zealand to Overturn Its Refusal to Allow James Mackintosh-Bell From Joining Expedition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #365: Robert Falcon Scott Twice Signed Letter Re: His Ill-Fated Antarctic Expedition -- ''...sincere gratitude for your patriotic support...of the Expedition...'' -- With Handwritten Postscript -- 1910

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $2,772

• Lot #366: Signed First Edition of ''The Antarctic Book. Winter Quarters 1907-1909'' -- One of Only 300 Printed, Signed by All 16 Members of Shackleton's Shore Party

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #367: Ernest Shackleton & Crew Signed ''The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909'' Limited to Just 300 Copies, This Being All Three Volumes -- Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #368: Ernest Shackleton Signed Bill of Sale for the Nimrod -- the Ship That Successfully Took Him to the Antarctic

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #370: ''Through The Dark Continent'' Inscribed by Henry M. Stanley in the Year of Publication

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #374: Egyptologist Arthur Weigall Signed Letter -- 1908 -- ''...the Directorate would like to have exchanges with the home owners located in front of Temple of Luxor...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass