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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.
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SCOTT, Robert Falcon (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.
Presentation copy from Scott's widow, Kathleen, in fine, clean condition. Conrad p.188; Rosove 290.A1; Spence 1056; Taurus 77.
2 volumes, octavo (237 x 160mm). Half-titles, titles printed in red and black. 2 photogravure portrait frontispieces, 2 folding panoramas, 8 folding maps, numerous plates of which 3 double-page and 17 coloured (blank preliminary leaf of vol. I lightly creased, double-page plate at p.264 in vol. II boundin upside down). Original blue cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut (lower corner of vol. I bumped, but otherwise a fine copy with only very faint rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Kathleen Scott (widow of Captain Scott, ink presentation inscription dated 1913 to:) – Dr Henry Menzies.
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.
Presentation copy from Scott's widow, Kathleen, in fine, clean condition. Conrad p.188; Rosove 290.A1; Spence 1056; Taurus 77.
2 volumes, octavo (237 x 160mm). Half-titles, titles printed in red and black. 2 photogravure portrait frontispieces, 2 folding panoramas, 8 folding maps, numerous plates of which 3 double-page and 17 coloured (blank preliminary leaf of vol. I lightly creased, double-page plate at p.264 in vol. II boundin upside down). Original blue cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut (lower corner of vol. I bumped, but otherwise a fine copy with only very faint rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Kathleen Scott (widow of Captain Scott, ink presentation inscription dated 1913 to:) – Dr Henry Menzies.
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