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Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)
The Voyage of the 'Discovery'. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1905. 2 volumes. 8 (23.5 x 16.2cm.). Half-titles, titles in red and black. 2 folding maps, printed in three colours, loose in pockets at back, plates and maps, some double-page, or coloured. (Occasional light spotting, tears to one loose maps, plates facing pp.182 & 356 in vol.II, loosely inserted.) Original blue cloth gilt, t.e.g. (light rubbing to upper covers, head and foot of spines bumped).
Provenance: Katherine Scott (author's presentation inscription 'To Kitty With the authors best wishes Robert Scott Oct. 12th 1905'); by descent.
First edition of Scott's account of his National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904. A highly important association copy given by the author to his youngest sister. Scott was the third of six children, and the eldest of the two boys. After the death of his father John Scott in 1897, his mother Hannah and her two youngest daughters, Grace and Kittie, moved to London and set up as dressmakers over a milliner's shop in Chelsea. (2)
The Voyage of the 'Discovery'. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1905. 2 volumes. 8 (23.5 x 16.2cm.). Half-titles, titles in red and black. 2 folding maps, printed in three colours, loose in pockets at back, plates and maps, some double-page, or coloured. (Occasional light spotting, tears to one loose maps, plates facing pp.182 & 356 in vol.II, loosely inserted.) Original blue cloth gilt, t.e.g. (light rubbing to upper covers, head and foot of spines bumped).
Provenance: Katherine Scott (author's presentation inscription 'To Kitty With the authors best wishes Robert Scott Oct. 12th 1905'); by descent.
First edition of Scott's account of his National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904. A highly important association copy given by the author to his youngest sister. Scott was the third of six children, and the eldest of the two boys. After the death of his father John Scott in 1897, his mother Hannah and her two youngest daughters, Grace and Kittie, moved to London and set up as dressmakers over a milliner's shop in Chelsea. (2)