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1913956Z10London: Smith Elder Co 1913. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". None stated. The second edition of this important official account of the renowned expedition to the geographic South Pole lead by Captain Robert Falcon Scott written from Scott's own journals and heavily illustrated throughout. The second edition printed the same year as the first edition. Illustrated with photogravure monochrome frontispieces six original sketches in photogravure by Dr E. A. Wilson eighteen coloured plates sixteen from drawings by Dr. Wilson two hundred and sixty full-page and smaller illustrations from photographs taken by Herbert G. Ponting and other members of the expedition two panoramas from photographs by Herbert G. Ponting and two folding maps with the errata slip tipped in to volume I. Collated complete. The official account of the famed expedition to Antarctica lead by Captain Robert Falcon Scott written by Leonard Huxley and Sir Clements R. Markham. The work was compiled from the journals of Captain Scott and the scientific reports undertaken by Dr E. A Wilson. The expedition aimed to continue the scientific work they had started during their previous expedition with the hopes of being the first people to reach the geographic South Pole. The Expedition met a tragic end with Scott and his party dying on the return journey from the Pole with their journals and photographs being found later by a search party. In the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with minimal rubbing to the extremities and joints and the odd very small closed tear to the head and tails of the spines and slight bumping to the extremities. Minimal spotting to the endpapers with owner's signature to the front free endpaper. Internally binding strained between pp.112 and113 with two plates disbound but present otherwise firm. Pages generally bright with light scattered spotting throughout and the odd very minor tidemark to the odd plate. Very Good Smith, Elder Co hardcover
1935mon0001536043John Murray 1935. Hardcover. Good. . Hardback. No dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription. Slight rubbing and staining to cover. Slight tanning to pages. Hinges good. Binding firm. Text is clear. Pull out expedition map in good condition. John Murray hardcover
14012012020077London : Smith Elder & Co 1914-01-01. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Good. 2 volume set. 25 cm. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jackets. Minor shelf wear. Binding of v.1 slightly shaken. Clean unmarked pages. Top edges gilt. 2 photogravure frontispieces 6 other photogravures 18 coloured plates 11 folding panoramas 8 folding maps 260 illustrations from photographs taken by Herbert Ponting etc. Closed tear on plate facing p. 114.Contents: V. 1. Being the journals of Captain R.F. Scott R.N. C.V.O. --v. 2. Being the reports of the journeys & the scientific work undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson and the surviving members of the expedition. <br> Ref: Spence 1064 <br> Provenance: Book plate of Henry Rouse Viets. Additional bookplate of Rev. J.E.W. Honnywill Bath England. <br> This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. London : Smith, Elder & Co hardcover
19135655<p>Smith Elder & Co. London.1913. SECOND EDITION. Two large 8vo volumes. Fully illustrated with photogravure frontispieces 6 original sketches in photogravure by Dr. Wilson18 coloured plates 16 from drawings by Dr. Wilson 260 full page and smaller illustrationsfrom photographs taken by Herbert G. Ponting and other members of the expedition panoramas and maps. A very good copy. Publishers blue cloth with gilt lettered to front boards and spines. Top edges gilt. A few faint streaks to the spine of volume one and couple of small abrasions to outer edges of the front board on volume two but overall a very good bright set.:</p> Smith ,Elder & Co. London.,1913 hardcover
19134382London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1913. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 431 pages plus map to rear. Small tear to blank section off the map. <br/><br/> Macmillan and Co. Ltd. hardcover
200055Smith Elder & Co. Ltd. London 1913. First edition: two volumes octavo; hardcover with gilt spine and upper board titles and rules and blind rules to the upper boards; 1209pp. xxvipp. 633pp. xvipp. 534pp. untrimmed top edges gilt with two monochrome portrait frontispieces 2 folding panoramas 3 double-page plates and 181 plates likewise plus 8 maps 6 folding and 1 in colour 18 colour plates and 2 black-and-white illustrations. Moderate wear; both volumes shaken; spine extremities softened; spine of Volume I cracked; spines sunned with some chipping to Volume I; boards lightly rubbed with some mild sunning; text block edges spotted; mild offset to the endpapers; previous owner's name in ink to the flyleaves. No dustwrappers. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "Scott's legacy has been buffered to and fro like the Antarctic wind over the past 100 years. In the aftermath of his death which was not known about back home for almost another year he was hailed as a hero by a declining Empire desperately in need of one. In later years he has been traduced as an incompetent indecisive amateur. Somewhere between the two a middle ground can be found emphasising his team's scientific discoveries and the extreme conditions they faced without either condemning or cheerleading. Regardless it is difficult not to feel a small Edwardian lump rising at the back of your throat when you read one of the final diary entries: 'Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.'" - Iain Hollingshead Smith Elder & Co. Ltd., London, 1913. hardcover
1913036881London: Smith Elder & Co 1913 2 vols. 8vo. original blue cloth gilt teg others uncut rubbed & bumped a little frayed with splitting along hinges at headcap to Vol. 1 bookplates to upper pastedowns some spotting & marking binding to Vol. 1 shaken with occ. loosening to plates else clean internally; Vol. 1 Second Edition 1913. pp. xxvi 634 last blank 2 pubs. advt. with 7 photogravure plates 10 colour plates 4 panoramas 136 plates & a folding map tape repair; Vol. 2. First edition 1913. pp. xvi 534 with photogravure portrait 8 colour plates 7 double-page plates 108 plates & 8 maps. Very heavy set 3.5 kg additional postage may be required for international and domestic delivery. A good mixed set. . Mixed Set. Hard Cover. G. Smith, Elder & Co hardcover
1914040696London: Smith Elder & Co 1914. 4th Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fourth edition. Two volumes. Some damp staining to the bottom of the textblocks of both volumes. Otherwise very good clean copies with some light repairs to fold out maps. Postage will be higher than quoted for outside NZ <br/> <br/> Smith Elder & Co hardcover
191377022London: Smith Elder and Co. 1913. Small 4to.Illustrated. Second edition. In 2 volumes. xxvi 633; xvi 534 pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to front boards & spines. Top edges gilt. Arranged by Leonard Huxley with a preface by Sir Clements R. Markham.With photogravure frontis portraits and sketches coloured plates with tissue guards panoramas double-page plates b&w plates and maps. All plates & maps complete. Rubbing to the spines and corners and a slight lean to the binding. Foxing scattered throughout. 24cm tall. An early edition of this hugely influential account of Captain Scott's fateful Terra Nova expedition in which he and 4 other explorers perished on their return from the Antarctic's geographic south pole. The first volume contains Scott's journals and farewell letters found with his person by a search pary 8 months after the expedition. The second volume contains the journals of crew member Edward Wilson who also died on the expedition alongside the scientific discoveries of those that survived. This second printing of the text was published the same year as the first edition as the title was so popular at the time of publication that it required 5 print runs in the 4 months between November 1913 and February 1914. Less common in such nice condition. prince dent This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Very Good. Publisher's Cloth. Second Edition. 1913. Smith, Elder and Co. 1913 hardcover
19132553Smith Elder & Co London 1913. Second Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 2nd Edition; Vol 1 xxvi 633 pages illustrated 7 photogravure plates 6 by Wilson 10 colour plates 9 by Wilson 120 b/w plates 2 folding panoramas 2 facsimile extracts from Scott's diary on 3 tissue paper leaves tipped in note prior to the folding map. illustrations in text 2 adverts. Vol 2 xii 534 pages 7 colour plates by Wilson Autochrome photo by Ponting 84 b/w plates some double page 7 maps 8 sketches in text. Original covers top page edges gilt no dust jackets. Shelf wear rubbing creasing to covers some spotting to page edges contents clean a nice set. This is undoubtedly the most widely known of all Antarctic expeditions and publications. Readers having absorbed Scott's account of the expedition in the first volume would have discovered in the second volume a host of first-hand accounts deserving of more weight today: Cherry-Garrard's account of the Winter Journey Victor Campbell's narrative of the Northern Party Griffith Taylor on the Western Journeys Raymond Priestley on the ascent of Erebus preliminary scientific reports from Edward Wilson's staff and throughout the unrivalled photography of Herbert Ponting. Second impression of the First Edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2553. . This is a SET of books therefore heavier than a standard volume and may involve extra shipping charges. Smith, Elder & Co hardcover
19131087Smith Elder & Co London 1913. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: Vol 1 xxvi 633 pages illustrated 7 photogravure plates 6 by Wilson 10 colour plates 9 by Wilson 120 b/w plates 2 folding panoramas 2 facsimile extracts from Scott's diary on 3 tissue paper leaves tipped in note prior to the folding map. illustrations in text 2 adverts. Vol 2 xii 534 pages 7 colour plates by Wilson Autochrome photo by Ponting 84 b/w plates some double page 7 maps 8 sketches in text. Original covers top page edges gilt no dust jackets. Original covers no dust jacketstop page edges gilt. Contents clean some spotting minor shelf wear split to spine Volume 1. A Nice Set. This is undoubtedly the most widely known of all Antarctic expeditions and publications. Readers having absorbed Scott's account of the expedition in the first volume would have discovered in the second volume a host of first-hand accounts deserving of more weight today: Cherry-Garrard's account of the Winter Journey Victor Campbell's narrative of the Northern Party Griffith Taylor on the Western Journeys Raymond Priestley on the ascent of Erebus preliminary scientific reports from Edward Wilson's staff and throughout the unrivalled photography of Herbert Ponting. - Taurus. Taurus 77; Books on Ice 6.10; Rosove 290.A1; Spence 1056; Conrad p188. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1087. . This is a SET of books therefore heavier than a standard volume and may involve extra shipping charges. Smith, Elder & Co hardcover
191310658New York: Dodd Mead 1913. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No Dustjacket as Issued. First American Edition. Hardcover. Includes photogravure plates folding photographic panoramas several maps 4 folding of various sizes and nearly 300 photographic illustrations many full page. Spence 1058. Minor shelf/edge wear gilt lightly toned discrete paper spine label near heel library bookplate at front pastedown discrete stamp at front pastedown one map shows minor creases at edges and small closed tear near tab else tight bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards gilt lettering frontispieces printed tissue guards foldout maps and images teg. 8vo. 443 376pp. Illus. color and b/w plates. Appendix. Index. Dodd, Mead hardcover
FORT644395John Murray. Used - Acceptable. Two volume set. Volumes I and II. Both published in 1914. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on fronts and spines. John Murray hardcover
53241London: Macmillan and Co. 1913. Polar Exploration FIRST COLONIAL EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.xviii; 497; 11; pp.x; 431; 1. With eight photographic plates including a frontispiece to each volume and a folding map at the rear of each volume. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles and blue stamped decoration to spines and upper boards. With dust-jackets showing an image of Captain Scott to the front cover. Some rubbing and spotting to edges. Light spotting and offsetting to endpapers. Light pencil annotations to contents page of volume II. A square cut-out of a newspaper column announcing the promotion of Sir E.R.G.R. Evans to Admiral taped to verso of illustrations list of volume I. Light occasional spotting. Tears to map joint corners. Cloth spines lightly faded. Jackets with chips from head and tail of spines and corners; toning to spines. Rarely seen in jackets. Near fine. Rosove 290.C1.a. London: Macmillan and Co., 1913 unknown
193569606John Murray 1935. Vol 1 lacks rear folded map. Jackets grubby and rubbed with heavy chipping and loss. Some foxing light wear a few page corners creased otherwise contents clean and tidy. Reprint. Cloth. Good/Poor. 8vo. John Murray Hardcover
217364John Murray London 1935. 2 volumes: 497 pp 431 pp b&w photographic plates fold-out map at rear of each volume previous owner's name stamped on front end-papers edges foxed 8cm piece missing from d/j spine vo vol. 2 else very good set in very good and good price-clipped d/j's. John Murray, London, 1935 unknown
184321Smith Elder & Co. London 1913. 2 volumes thick octavo: 636 pp 534 pp b&w frontispiece in each volume 2 fold-out panoramas numerous b&w photographic plates 2 facsimile letters 9 fold-out maps 3 double-page plates top edges gilt edges foxed bookplates on end-papers - very good set in blue cloth boards. . First edition. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1913 hardcover
1913502967London: Smith Elder & Co. 1913. Book. Very Good - Book condition. Hardcover. Third Edition. A very nice set of two volumes price is for both bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to covers and spines. Top-edges gilt. Hinges very lightly starting but binding solid. A spattering of foxing throughout not affecting text. Corners lightly bumped. Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair. Smith, Elder & Co. Hardcover
191386743New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1913. Presumed First U. S. Edition First printing. Hardcover. Fair. Edward A. Wilson Color illustrations. 2 Volume Set. Volume I xxiv 443 1 pages. Glossary. Appendix. Volume II. xiv 2 376 8 pages. Footnote. Appendix. Index. Maps and illustrations collated and found to be complete. Some page discoloration noted. Large volumes and boards show some weakness. This is a heavy set and if sent outside of the United States would require additional shipping charges. With photogravure frontispieces 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. Name of previous owner Ralph Steinhardt Jr.--possibly the member of the Special Engineer Detachment of the Manhattan Project stationed at Los Alamos during WWII inside front covers. Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. Volume I appears to have a typographical error in the colour illustrations with the item differently title and the page given as 288 instead of its location at 238. Leonard Huxley 11 December 1860 - 3 May 1933 was an English schoolteacher writer and editor. Huxley's major biographies were the three volumes of Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley and the two volumes of Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI. He also published Thomas Henry Huxley: a character sketch and a short biography of Darwin. He was assistant master at Charterhouse School between 1884 and 1901. He was then the assistant editor of Cornhill Magazine between 1901 and 1916 becoming its editor in 1916. Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO 6 June 1868 - c. 29 March 1912 was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901-04 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910-13. On the first expedition he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Antarctic Plateau on which the South Pole is located. On the second venture Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912 less than five weeks after Amundsen's South Pole expedition. A planned meeting with supporting dog teams from the base camp failed despite Scott's written instructions and at a distance of 162 miles from their base camp at Hut Point and approximately 12.5 miles from the next depot Scott and his companions died. When Scott and his party's bodies were discovered they had in their possession the first Antarctic fossils discovered. The fossils were determined to be from the Glossopteris tree and proved that Antarctica was once forested and joined to other continents. Before his appointment to lead the Discovery expedition Scott had a career as a Royal Navy officer. In 1899 he had a chance encounter with Sir Clements Markham the president of the Royal Geographical Society and learned of a planned Antarctic expedition which he soon volunteered to lead. His name became inseparably associated with the Antarctic the field of work to which he remained committed during the final 12 years of his life. Following the news of his death Scott became a celebrated hero a status reflected by memorials erected across the UK. Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover
1913RSCOSCO00tpmSmith Elder & Co. 1913. Very Good. Scott R. F. Scott's Last Expedition In Two Volumes. 2 volume set in folding box. Huxley Leonard. London: Smith Elder & Co. 1913. 2nd edition. 633 534pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Very good with rubbed extremities and slightly faded spines. Pages are subtly toned. The second volume has slightly ragged page edges and a previous owner's marks on the front endsheet. The first volume has a newspaper clipping that shows an image of Scott on a sled. Each volume has protective mylar and they both fit snugly in the custom box. Smith, Elder & Co. unknown
191376221Smith Elder & Co. 1913. Hardcover . Good/No Jacket. Two volumes. Blue cloth over boards. Bright gilt lettering on front boards spines. Some spotting on covers and discoloration/wear on spines. Edges are foxed some foxing throughout. Color and b/w plates throughout. With maps. Complete Size: 4to - over 9-3/4 - 12' tall. Smith, Elder & Co. hardcover
1913o0546osNew York: Dodd Mead and Company 1913. Account of the successful but doomed expedition volume one containing Scott's journals; volume two the scientific work & other accounts of the expedition; a key element in any polar collection. First American edition. Hardcovers full slate grey cloth gilt titling. Shows some wear & rubbing; engraved portrait of Scott affixed inside each front cover; minor damage to endsheets as if something were once taped to each inside cover; sporadic foxing within not severe. Text clean; xxiv 443; xiv 376 pages; index appendices maps many photos color plates - all present as called for with extra unlisted color plates in volume one. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 6¾" by 9¾". Set. Dodd, Mead and Company Hardcover
