THE VOYAGE OF THE DISCOVERY BY CAPTAIN ROBERT F. SCOTT C.V. O., R. N

Book Description

New York., Charles Scribner's Sons., 1905. With 260 full-page and smaller illustrations by Dr. E.A. Wilson and other members of the expedition, photogravure frontispieces, 12 colored plates in facsimile from Dr. Wilson's sketches, panoramas and maps. In two volumes. First American edition. 8vo. Volume I pp. [I-vii], viii-xx, 556, photogravure frontispiece, title printed in red and black. 3 maps (1 double-page, 1 full-page, 1 folding in end-pocket), 7 color plates, 2 photographic panoramic views on 1 double-page plate, 119 mostly photographic illustrations on 84 plates, 1 full-page plan in text, 16 text vignettes; Volume II pp. [i-v], vi-xii, 508, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 2 maps (1 full-page, 1 folding in end pocket) 5 color plates, 8 panoramic views on 4 double-page plates, 124 mostly photographic illustration on 82 plates, 13pp., index; original ribbed ark blue cloth, covers with raised gilt medallions, spines lettered in gilt. Bound in blue cloth similar to the Smith-Elder edition published in the same year with the frontispiece illustrated with the medallion of the explorers with penguins within gold medallions on Volume I and the portrait of Scott with in a medallion as in the English first edition on Volume II. Hinges are loose, binding is somewhat loose at spine. Conrad p. 121; Spence 1050, Renard 1372, Rosove 286.A3. Uncommon.

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