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POLAR EXPLORATION -- MURRAY, George Robert Milne (1858-1911), editor. The Antarctic Manual for the use of the expedition of 1901 edited by... Murray... with a preface by Sir Clements R. Markham ... presented to the Expedition and issued by the Royal Geographical Society. London: William Clowes & Sons for the R.G.S., 1901. 8° (221 x 147mm). Half-title. 3 folding tinted lithographic maps loose pocket at rear, illustrations. (Half-title browned and with light vertical crease near gutter, maps with light scattered, mainly marginal spotting, pp.169-172 with small marginal chips to fore-edge.) Original blue cloth, spine gilt (extremities lightly rubbed, upper cover with two small scratches, spine lightly soiled, endpapers browned as usual).
POLAR EXPLORATION -- MURRAY, George Robert Milne (1858-1911), editor. The Antarctic Manual for the use of the expedition of 1901 edited by... Murray... with a preface by Sir Clements R. Markham ... presented to the Expedition and issued by the Royal Geographical Society. London: William Clowes & Sons for the R.G.S., 1901. 8° (221 x 147mm). Half-title. 3 folding tinted lithographic maps loose pocket at rear, illustrations. (Half-title browned and with light vertical crease near gutter, maps with light scattered, mainly marginal spotting, pp.169-172 with small marginal chips to fore-edge.) Original blue cloth, spine gilt (extremities lightly rubbed, upper cover with two small scratches, spine lightly soiled, endpapers browned as usual).

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POLAR EXPLORATION -- MURRAY, George Robert Milne (1858-1911), editor. The Antarctic Manual for the use of the expedition of 1901 edited by... Murray... with a preface by Sir Clements R. Markham ... presented to the Expedition and issued by the Royal Geographical Society. London: William Clowes & Sons for the R.G.S., 1901. 8° (221 x 147mm). Half-title. 3 folding tinted lithographic maps loose pocket at rear, illustrations. (Half-title browned and with light vertical crease near gutter, maps with light scattered, mainly marginal spotting, pp.169-172 with small marginal chips to fore-edge.) Original blue cloth, spine gilt (extremities lightly rubbed, upper cover with two small scratches, spine lightly soiled, endpapers browned as usual).

FIRST EDITION, providing 'easy access to information, otherwise inaccessible, which was required by officers in their scientific investigations' (preface). It includes papers and extracts gathered together under various headings, including: Geography; Antarctic bibliography; Antarctic climate; The Aurora; Geology; Instructions for collecting rocks and minerals; Zoology; Botany; Arctic sledge-travelling. The Geography section includes the first printing of the Journal of John Biscoe, the probable discoverer of the Antarctic continent. Conrad p.119; Rosove 235.A1; Spence 829; Taurus 39.

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