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Scott’s Last Expedition.

Scott’s Last Expedition.

In Two Volumes, Vol. I Being the Journals…, Vol. II Being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition Arranged by Leonard Huxley. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. Arranged by Leonard Huxley.

Author:
SCOTT, Robert F.
Title:
Scott’s Last Expedition.
Published:
1913
Publisher:
London, Smith, Elder & Co.,
Stock Code:
38985
Price:
£2,000.00

First Edition. This copy with a one-page ALs from Scott, dated 8 December 1909, thanking Mrs. Playfair for her contribution to the expedition, loosely inserted.

2 volumes, 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, gilt title to spines and front boards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With photogravure frontispieces, 6 original sketches in photogravure by Doctor E. A. Wilson, 18 coloured plates (16 from drawings by Dr. Wilson), 260 full-page and smaller illustrations, from photographs taken by Herbert G. Ponting and other members of the expedition; panoramas and 8 folding maps. Light browning and marginal foxing as usual, a very good clean set in the publisher’s blue ribbed cloth, slightly rubbed, heads and tails of spines a little crumpled.

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