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ROBERT FALCON SCOTT (1868-1912)
Scott's Last Expedition. Arranged by Leonard Huxley. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1913. 2 volumes, 8°. Half-titles. 2 frontispieces, numerous plates. (Some light spotting). Orginal cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Charles Seymour Wright (bookplate).
With 7 other works on the Antarctic, all from C.S. Wright's library, including Herbert G. Ponting's The Great White South (London, 1924), Griffith Taylor's With Scott: The Silver Lining (New York, 1916), another copy of Ponting's The Great White South (London, 1923) with a pasted-in slip SIGNED BY PONTING. (9)
Scott's Last Expedition. Arranged by Leonard Huxley. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1913. 2 volumes, 8°. Half-titles. 2 frontispieces, numerous plates. (Some light spotting). Orginal cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Charles Seymour Wright (bookplate).
With 7 other works on the Antarctic, all from C.S. Wright's library, including Herbert G. Ponting's The Great White South (London, 1924), Griffith Taylor's With Scott: The Silver Lining (New York, 1916), another copy of Ponting's The Great White South (London, 1923) with a pasted-in slip SIGNED BY PONTING. (9)