Author: Robert N Brown; Robert Mossman Rudmose; J H Harvey Pirie
Title: The Voyage of the Scotia
Description: Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1906. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this scientific account to the Weddell Sea and the Establishment of a Meteorological Station in the South Orkneys. A really bright copy of this work, with the pictorial design to the front board lovely and bright. Kenn Back was a British meteorologist with the British Antarctic survey.  He spent eight winters in the antarctic and was a descendent of Captain George Back. A complete copy of this first edition.Collated, complete. With frontispiece, three maps, and multiple plates. In the original pictorial cloth binding. The Scotia expedition was led by William Speirs Bruce of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. They sailed north on the SY Scotia and collected nearly 1000 stereographic glass plate negatives of photographs taken on the expedition. In the original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, very smart with the image fading to the spine. Frontispiece is loosening slightly. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Small closed tear to the map at the gutter. Occasional scattered spots to pages. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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