Surveying Instruments and Allied Apparatus made by Cooke, Troughton & Simms, Limited
London, The Company, 1923.
Octavo, [ii], 278 pages with numerous illustrations.
Flush-cut quarter cloth and pictorial card covers lightly marked and creased; an excellent copy with a local agency stamp and contemporary inscriptions on the initial blank page.
Three pages at the rear are devoted to 'Historic Surveying Instruments': these include an illustration of Lieutenant E.R.G.R. Evans 'surveying with a "Cooke" theodolite in the Antarctic. Six special instruments (as above) were made for the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-11, one of which was used to locate the South Pole by the ill-fated Scott party'. Other illustrations relate to the 1921 Shackleton-Rowett Expedition and the 1922 Mount Everest Expedition.
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