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ROBERT FALCON SCOTT (1868-1912)
Scott's Last Expedition ... the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott ... the Reports of the Journeys & the Scientific Work undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson ... arranged by Leonard Huxley. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1913. 2 volumes, 8° (237 x 160mm.) Half-titles, titles printed in red and black. 2 photogravure portrait frontispieces, 2 folding panoramas, 8 folding maps, numerous plates (3 double-page, 18 coloured). (Occasional light spotting.) Original blue cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut (worn, spine to vol. I worn and split, vol. II with transparent plastic cover taped to endpapers). Provenance: Lady Kennet Scott (widow of Captain Scott, ink presentation inscription dated 1913 to:) -- Patrick Keohane (Irish member of the Terra Nova expedition who was among the search party to discover the bodies of Scott, Wilson and Bowers).
FIRST EDITION WITH INTERESTING PROVENANCE. Included are five ALSs from 1950: three are from Apsley Cherry-Garrard, with the last one (dated October 6th) after Keohane's death in which Cherry-Garrard writes to the widow 'He always wanted to see what was the other side of the hill'. The other two letters are from Violet Oates with negative comments about the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic. Conrad p.188; Rosove 290.A1; Spence 1056; Taurus 77. Sold with another related item.
Scott's Last Expedition ... the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott ... the Reports of the Journeys & the Scientific Work undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson ... arranged by Leonard Huxley. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1913. 2 volumes, 8° (237 x 160mm.) Half-titles, titles printed in red and black. 2 photogravure portrait frontispieces, 2 folding panoramas, 8 folding maps, numerous plates (3 double-page, 18 coloured). (Occasional light spotting.) Original blue cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut (worn, spine to vol. I worn and split, vol. II with transparent plastic cover taped to endpapers). Provenance: Lady Kennet Scott (widow of Captain Scott, ink presentation inscription dated 1913 to:) -- Patrick Keohane (Irish member of the Terra Nova expedition who was among the search party to discover the bodies of Scott, Wilson and Bowers).
FIRST EDITION WITH INTERESTING PROVENANCE. Included are five ALSs from 1950: three are from Apsley Cherry-Garrard, with the last one (dated October 6th) after Keohane's death in which Cherry-Garrard writes to the widow 'He always wanted to see what was the other side of the hill'. The other two letters are from Violet Oates with negative comments about the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic. Conrad p.188; Rosove 290.A1; Spence 1056; Taurus 77. Sold with another related item.