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BRITISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1901-1904
[Scientific Results]. London: The British Museum and The Royal Society, 1907-13. 11 volumes and portfolio of plates, large 4° (305 x 230mm). Titles, plates, photogravures, maps and illustrations. Original red buckram-backed cloth, spines gilt (spines faded, with library labels, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Given by the Trustees of the British Museum (some vols with presentation slips) -- vol. II (Zoology) presented to Sir Clements Markham (presentation letter dated 1907) -- Miss S. Clements, presented to -- Bath Public Reference Library (library labels, printed and blind stamps). Together with: [Sir CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM], autograph letter (incomplete draft, with many cancellations) to [A.B.] Kempe, 9 November 1908, pointing out inaccuracies in the preface to 'the Antarctic Physical volume'; with autograph manuscript notes titled 'Southern Ocean, within & without the Antarctic Circle', listing Antarctic birds, seals, whales, lichens and mosses etc, 6 pages, 2° & 4°; and: A.B. Kempe, autograph letter signed to Clements R. Markham, The Royal Society, 22 April 1909, 2 pages, 8vo concerning the progress of publication.
A COMPLETE SET OF THE "SCIENTIFIC RESULTS" OF THE FIRST SCOTT EXPEDITION, WITH AUTOGRAPH AMENDMENTS BY SIR CLEMENTS ROBERT MARKHAM. The present work includes the first aerial view of the Antarctic, and the first report of a nesting colony of the Emperor penguin; 'all are handsome works and fitting testimony to the extraordinarily broad and thorough scientific investigations conducted by the expedition scientists and authorities back home' (Rosove). The Album of Photographs, has been described as the 'MOST GLORIOUS AND POPULAR WORK AMONG THE REPORTS OF THE DISCOVERY EXPEDITION' (Rosove). Spence 837, 840, 839, 841, 838. Rosove 288.1-11.
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[Scientific Results]. London: The British Museum and The Royal Society, 1907-13. 11 volumes and portfolio of plates, large 4° (305 x 230mm). Titles, plates, photogravures, maps and illustrations. Original red buckram-backed cloth, spines gilt (spines faded, with library labels, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Given by the Trustees of the British Museum (some vols with presentation slips) -- vol. II (Zoology) presented to Sir Clements Markham (presentation letter dated 1907) -- Miss S. Clements, presented to -- Bath Public Reference Library (library labels, printed and blind stamps). Together with: [Sir CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM], autograph letter (incomplete draft, with many cancellations) to [A.B.] Kempe, 9 November 1908, pointing out inaccuracies in the preface to 'the Antarctic Physical volume'; with autograph manuscript notes titled 'Southern Ocean, within & without the Antarctic Circle', listing Antarctic birds, seals, whales, lichens and mosses etc, 6 pages, 2° & 4°; and: A.B. Kempe, autograph letter signed to Clements R. Markham, The Royal Society, 22 April 1909, 2 pages, 8vo concerning the progress of publication.
A COMPLETE SET OF THE "SCIENTIFIC RESULTS" OF THE FIRST SCOTT EXPEDITION, WITH AUTOGRAPH AMENDMENTS BY SIR CLEMENTS ROBERT MARKHAM. The present work includes the first aerial view of the Antarctic, and the first report of a nesting colony of the Emperor penguin; 'all are handsome works and fitting testimony to the extraordinarily broad and thorough scientific investigations conducted by the expedition scientists and authorities back home' (Rosove). The Album of Photographs, has been described as the 'MOST GLORIOUS AND POPULAR WORK AMONG THE REPORTS OF THE DISCOVERY EXPEDITION' (Rosove). Spence 837, 840, 839, 841, 838. Rosove 288.1-11.
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