Scott's Last Expedition. Volume I. Being the journals of Captain Scott. Volume II. Being the reports of the journeys & the scientific work undertaken by Dr.E.A.Wilson and the surviving members of the expedition.
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1913. Dr. E.A.Wilson, Herbert G. Ponting (Illus.). 2nd ed., two volumes, original cloth boards with gilt titles, profusely illustrated with plates and maps, frontis portraits of Scott and Wilson. Vol. I: pp xxvi, 633, large folding map at end. Vol. II: pp xiv, 534, large folding map at end. Second edition, published the same year as the first. Complete. Some very light scattered foxing, otherwise, contents and images clean. Bound in half leather, ornately decorated gilt spines, top edges gilt, other edges uncut. Binding by Cottage Bindery, Bath with binder's stamp to rear paste-down first volume. Very good condition.
Fine binding of the two volume second edition set printed same year as the first. The ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-1913. Includes Captain Robert Falcon Scott's journals, and reports from various members of the expedition. Profusely illustrated: "photogravure frontispieces, 6 original sketches in photogravure by Dr Wilson, 18 coloured plates (16 from drawings by Dr Wilson), 260 full-page and smaller illustrations... panoramas and maps" Item #106259
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