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ROBERT FALCON SCOTT (1868-1912)
Scott's Last Expedition ... the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott ... the Reports of the Journeys & the Scientific Work undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson ... arranged by Leonard Huxley. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1913. 2 volumes, 8° (235 x 165mm.) Half-titles, titles printed in red and black. 2 photogravure portrait frontispieces, 2 folding panoramas, 8 folding maps, numerous plates after Herbert Ponting, Edward Wilson and others (3 double-page, 18 coloured). Original blue cloth gilt, dust-jackets (dust-jackets chipped, small pieces torn away from corners), top edge gilt.
FIRST EDITION. A FINE SET IN DUST-JACKETS OF 'THE FAMOUS, OFFICIAL EXPEDITION ACCOUNT' (Conrad). Conrad p.188; Rosove 290.A1 ('dust-wrappers very scarce'); Spence 1056; Taurus 77. (2)
Scott's Last Expedition ... the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott ... the Reports of the Journeys & the Scientific Work undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson ... arranged by Leonard Huxley. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1913. 2 volumes, 8° (235 x 165mm.) Half-titles, titles printed in red and black. 2 photogravure portrait frontispieces, 2 folding panoramas, 8 folding maps, numerous plates after Herbert Ponting, Edward Wilson and others (3 double-page, 18 coloured). Original blue cloth gilt, dust-jackets (dust-jackets chipped, small pieces torn away from corners), top edge gilt.
FIRST EDITION. A FINE SET IN DUST-JACKETS OF 'THE FAMOUS, OFFICIAL EXPEDITION ACCOUNT' (Conrad). Conrad p.188; Rosove 290.A1 ('dust-wrappers very scarce'); Spence 1056; Taurus 77. (2)
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