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SCOTT, CAPTAIN R. F. - Scott's Last Expedition. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. Being The Journals Of Captain R. F. Scott, R. N., C.V.O. Vol. II. Being the Reports of the Journeys & 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, K.C.B., F.R.S. With Photogravure Frontispiece, 6 Original Sketches in Photogravure by Dr. E. A. Wilson, 18 Coloured Plates (16 from drawings by Dr. Wilson), 260 Full-Page and smaller Illustrations, from Photographs taken by Herbert G. Ponting, and other Members of the Expedition; Panoramas and Maps.

Title: Scott's Last Expedition. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. Being The Journals Of Captain R. F. Scott, R. N., C.V.O. Vol. II. Being the Reports of the Journeys & 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, K.C.B., F.R.S. With Photogravure Frontispiece, 6 Original Sketches in Photogravure by Dr. E. A. Wilson, 18 Coloured Plates (16 from drawings by Dr. Wilson), 260 Full-Page and smaller Illustrations, from Photographs taken by Herbert G. Ponting, and other Members of the Expedition; Panoramas and Maps.
Description: Second and Third London Edition; Thick Roy. 8vo; pp. (ii), xxvi. 636; titles in red and black, 2 folding maps, one at rear, photogravure portrait of Scott as frontispiece, 6 plates from sketches by Dr. Wilson also in photogravure, 10 colour plates (9 from Wilson's watercolours, 1 from photograph of Ponting's), 2 folding panoramic plates, 101 monochrome plates (some printed in tinted ink) mostly from photographs by Ponting, facsimile of Scott's Message to the Public and the last words of his Journal, plan of hut, list of personnel & glossary at front; Vol. II. pp. (ii), xvi, (ii), 534, (2) blank; photogravure of Wilson as frontispiece, 8 folding maps (1 colour), 8 colour plates (7 from Wilson's watercolours, 1 colour photograph by Ponting), 3 double-page panoramic plates, 72 monochrome plates (some printed in tinted ink) mostly from photographs by Ponting, 4 plans in text 4 full-page, index, some slight foxing to some page edges, original blue ribbed cloth, title lettered in gilt on front board, title, volume and publisher lettered in gilt on spine, top edges gilt, others uncut. good copies. London, Smith Elder & Co., 1913.

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