Scott's Last Expedition (First Edition)

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First edition

SCOTT, Captain Robert Falcon (illus. Herbert G. Ponting Edward A. Wilson; ed. Leonard Huxley; preface Sir Clements R. Markham). Scott's Last Expedition. Volume I: Being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott. Volume II: Being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition. London: Smith, Elder Co., 1913. 2 vols. Large 8vo. Both volumes bound in original vertically-grained dark blue publisher's cloth. Lettering and lining to covers and spines in gilt; top edge gilt to both volumes. Vol. I: frontispiece, xxvi, 633 pp., 2 pp. publisher's advertisements, folding map at rear; Vol. II: frontispiece, xiii, [i], 534 pp., folding map at rear. Six sketches in photogravure by Dr. Edward A. Wilson; 18 colour plates; approximately 260 further illustrations throughout, the majority from photographs by Herbert G. Ponting; numerous further panoramas and maps. First edition, first printing. Sans original dust jackets. Provenance: from the library of Warwick H. Williams. On 1 November 1911, Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912) set out from his winter quarters at Cape Evans on the Ross Sea coast of Antarctica, at the head of a party attempting to become the first men to stand at the geographic South Pole. His Terra Nova Expedition had already survived a near-catastrophic storm on the voyage south, and would go on to endure conditions of a severity that remain almost unimaginable to a contemporary reader. Scott's par

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