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SCOTT, Robert Falcon
Scott's Last Expedition.
Smith, Elder, London 1913. First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., profusely illustrated with photographs, maps, plans, sketches, etc., including 18 in colour, original blue cloth gilt, some wear to corners, etc., a very good copy in the excessively rare dust wrappers, a little restoration to extremities and rear panel of dust jacket to first volume entirely replaced.
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. No wonder few copies survive with their dustwrappers intact. - Taurus. Taurus 77; Rosove 290.A1; Spence 1056; Conrad p188.
Price: £ 3500
US Dollar Price: $ 6940
Stock Number: 45845