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    Reference 3257 (1335)
    Category Antarctic;
    Author Huxley, Leonard & Markham, Clements R & Scott, R F
    Title SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION. Two Volumes, 1st Edition 1913
    Publishing Information London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1913.
    Description 1st Edition; Vol. I. Journals of Captain Scott. Vol.2. Reports of the Journeys & the Scientific Work by Dr.Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition arranged by Leonard Huxley, Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham.Vol 1, xxvi,633pages,7 photogravure plates including frontispiece, 10 coloured plates from water-colour drawings by Dr. Edward Wilson, 2 panoramas from photographs by Herbert G. Ponting, 100 plates, majority from photographs by Ponting, 2 facsimile extracts from Scott's diary on 3 tissue paper leaves, folding map, illustrations in text, 2 advertisements. Vol 2, xii,534pages, 84 plates including photogravure frontispiece, 8 coloured plates by Wilson and 3 double-page plates plus 7 folding maps and 8 sketches in text. Original cloth covers, top page edges gilt,other edges uncut. Remnants of WH Smith and Sons Library plates on verso covers both volumes, otherwise contents clean. Some spotting, mainly to tissue guards, pages rippled as expected due to paper quality in 1st Edition. Shelf wear, spines and edges of covers softening, odd mark to covers.This is undoubtedly the most widely known of all Antarctic expeditions and publications. Readers, having absorbed Scott's account of the expedition in the first volume, would have discovered in the second volume a host of first-hand accounts deserving of more weight today: Cherry-Garrard's account of the Winter Journey, Victor Campbell's narrative of the Northern Party, Griffith Taylor on the Western Journeys, Raymond Priestley on the ascent of Erebus, preliminary scientific reports from Edward Wilson's staff and throughout the unrivalled photography of Herbert Ponting. Taurus 77; Books on Ice, 6.10; Rosove 290.A2; Spence 1056; Conrad p188. Collation and index confirms 1st Edition.
    Price £140.00
    Keywords qpolarq, Antarctic, expedition, Wilson, Ross sea, Shackleton, polar S1-Ant
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