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    Reference 3115 (1568)
    Category Antarctic;
    Author Priestley, Raymond E
    Title ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE: Scott's Northern Party.
    Publishing Information London: Fisher Unwin, 1914.
    Description 1st Edition; 382 pages, frontispiece with tissue guard plus 97 plate leaves, 149 photographs in all, 4 diagrams in text, 3 folding maps. Original covers with silver pictorial vignettes to spine and upper cover. Shelfware. Spine slightly sunned and softening, lettering still bright, 2 plates have been repaired in the margins, contents clean. Age toning, some minor spotting to some page edges as expected. An account of Scott's Terra Nova expedition, here covering the wild adventures and amazing survival of the Northern Party. A letter from Priestley survives in which he says that many copies of this first printing were destroyed in a warehouse fire. Rosove 256.A1
    Price £550.00
    Keywords Scott, expedition, polar, Terra Nova, S1-Ant
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