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POLAR EXPLORATION. COLLECTION OF WORKS BY ROBERT FALCON SCOTT
Polar exploration:- Scott, Captain Robert Falcon. A collection of early 20th century arctic travel works incl. first editions. The lot comprising 1905 The Voyage of the Discovery by Captain Robert F. Scott, second impression publ. Smith Elder & Co. in two volumes, ex W H Smith lending library with bookplate to front pastedown; 1913 Scott's Last Expedition in two volumes, arr. Leonard Huxley and with preface by Sir Clements R. Markham, publ. Smith Elder & Co., ownership bookplate to front pastedown. All in publisher's orig. blue cloth bindings, shaken and bumped, with bindings loosening a little, boards a touch worn & bumped, the odd stain to boards & spines, some spotting internally, bindings strained. Illustrated with plates depicting the expeditions throughout. 4to.
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