Scott's Last Expedition. Vol. I being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O., 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.

SCOTT, Captain R.F. (1868-1912), [HUXLEY, Leonard, editor].

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1913. [Polar travel] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xxvi, 633 [3]; pp.xvi, 534 [2]. Title page printed in red and black. With eight photogravure plates, including a frontispiece portrait for each vol.; 18 coloured plates; and 260 photographic plates taken by members of the expedition. Complete. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spines and upper boards. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Contents clean, no inscriptions or bookplates, covers a little marked and rubbed, small pull at crown of volume one discreet repaired tear to tissue guard opp. p.548. Very good. Personal accounts of the fateful Terra Nova Expedition, 1910-13, from surviving team members and 'Scott of the Antarctic' himself. Item #75910

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