Item #105515 Scott's Last Expedition. Volume 1: Being the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott ... Volume 2: 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. Captain Robert Falcon SCOTT.
Scott's Last Expedition. Volume 1: Being the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott ... Volume 2: 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 ...
Scott's Last Expedition. Volume 1: Being the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott ... Volume 2: 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 ...

Scott's Last Expedition. Volume 1: Being the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott ... Volume 2: 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 ...

London, Smith, Elder, 1913 [first edition].

Quarto (245 x 175 mm), two volumes, xxvi, 634 (last blank), [2] (publisher's advertisement) pages; and xvi, 534, [2] (blank) pages 'With Photogravure Frontispieces, 6 Original Sketches in Photogravure by Dr. 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 Maps'.

Dark blue ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on the front covers and spines; top edges gilt, others uncut; cloth a little flecked, marked, rubbed, and a little bumped at the extremities, with the spines a little dulled; minimal light foxing (confined mainly to the uncut edges, the endpapers, and the frontispiece and the first few leaves of the first volume); front flyleaf of the first volume creased; trifling signs of use; a very good set.

The front pastedown of the first volume carries the ink signatures of seven members of the expedition. The pastedown itself is signed by geologists Griffith Taylor, Frank Debenham, Raymond Priestley, and the physicist Charles Wright ('C.S. Wright Nov 6/13'). Mounted next to them are the snipped signatures of Robert Forde, Petty Officer on the 'Terra Nova'; Francis Drake, secretary and meteorologist on the ship; and Bernard C. Day, motor engineer. Conrad, page 188; Spence 1056; Renard 1386; Taurus 77; Rosove 290.A1. [2 items].

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