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ROBERT NEAL RUDMOSE BROWN (1879-1957), ROBERT COCKBURN MOSSMAN (1870-1940) and JAMES HUNTER HARVEY PIRIE (1877-1965)
The Voyage of the "Scotia". Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906. 8° (220 x 144mm). 3 maps, 2 coloured and folding, half-tone photographic frontispiece with tissue guard and 58 photographic plates. (Occasional light marginal spotting, short marginal tears on a few text leaves and one map, one map with long tears.) Original grey pictorial cloth [Rosove binding variant b], titled in white, upper board depicting Scotia in ice with Weddell seal and Ringed penguins, spine with skier, purple endpapers, top edges gilt (extremities very lightly rubbed affecting blocking on spine, very light staining on lower board, white blocking on spine slightly worn away as often). Provenance: Captain the Hon Algernon Charles Murray M.P. (1887-1964, inscription on half-title: 'Captain the Hon. A.C. Murray, M.P. with compliments from Wm.S. Bruce.') -- Arthur Asprey (ink stamp on verso of frontispiece and inscription on p.1).
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM SPEIRS BRUCE, LEADER OF THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, DISCOVERER OF COATS LAND, AND DEDICATEE OF THE VOLUME. Bruce had declined the opportunity of accompanying Scott's Discovery Expedition as a naturalist, instead embarking upon this Scottish-financed voyage of 1902-1904 to the Weddell Sea as zoologist and head of the scientific staff. 'Although contemporary evaluations of Bruce's accomplishments tended to be overshadowed by Scott, the expedition was both successful and fruitful. This was the first expedition to the region of Coats Land. Their discovery disproved the "Ross Deep" and redrew the Antarctic map 400 miles north of the position Sir John Murray inferred based on Ross' erroneous sounding of 4,000 fathoms. They mapped the Laurie Island area thoroughly. Their meteorological, oceanographic, tidal and natural history observations were of the highest standard... The ship was never in serious danger. In short, the expedition reflected Bruce's quiet, unassuming competence but lacked the drama of the South Polar race to grip the public's imagination' (Conrad). Indeed, Bruce's unassuming nature led him to believe that there would be little public interest in an account of the expedition and thus this account was written by three of the staff, although Bruce did supply the Preface. Following the expedition, Scotia was sent to the North Atlantic to study ice movements following the Titanic's sinking. Conrad p.128; Rosove 50.A1.b ('less common' than binding variant a); Spence 193; Stewart II, 1176; Taurus 51.
The Voyage of the "Scotia". Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906. 8° (220 x 144mm). 3 maps, 2 coloured and folding, half-tone photographic frontispiece with tissue guard and 58 photographic plates. (Occasional light marginal spotting, short marginal tears on a few text leaves and one map, one map with long tears.) Original grey pictorial cloth [Rosove binding variant b], titled in white, upper board depicting Scotia in ice with Weddell seal and Ringed penguins, spine with skier, purple endpapers, top edges gilt (extremities very lightly rubbed affecting blocking on spine, very light staining on lower board, white blocking on spine slightly worn away as often). Provenance: Captain the Hon Algernon Charles Murray M.P. (1887-1964, inscription on half-title: 'Captain the Hon. A.C. Murray, M.P. with compliments from W
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM SPEIRS BRUCE, LEADER OF THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, DISCOVERER OF COATS LAND, AND DEDICATEE OF THE VOLUME. Bruce had declined the opportunity of accompanying Scott's Discovery Expedition as a naturalist, instead embarking upon this Scottish-financed voyage of 1902-1904 to the Weddell Sea as zoologist and head of the scientific staff. 'Although contemporary evaluations of Bruce's accomplishments tended to be overshadowed by Scott, the expedition was both successful and fruitful. This was the first expedition to the region of Coats Land. Their discovery disproved the "Ross Deep" and redrew the Antarctic map 400 miles north of the position Sir John Murray inferred based on Ross' erroneous sounding of 4,000 fathoms. They mapped the Laurie Island area thoroughly. Their meteorological, oceanographic, tidal and natural history observations were of the highest standard... The ship was never in serious danger. In short, the expedition reflected Bruce's quiet, unassuming competence but lacked the drama of the South Polar race to grip the public's imagination' (Conrad). Indeed, Bruce's unassuming nature led him to believe that there would be little public interest in an account of the expedition and thus this account was written by three of the staff, although Bruce did supply the Preface. Following the expedition, Scotia was sent to the North Atlantic to study ice movements following the Titanic's sinking. Conrad p.128; Rosove 50.A1.b ('less common' than binding variant a); Spence 193; Stewart II, 1176; Taurus 51.
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