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Scott's Last Expedition: Being The Journals of Captain R. F. Scott

1913rif. 956Z10London: 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

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Along The Road Notes and Essays of a Tourist

1925rif. 403-3379New York: George H. Doran 1925. Very Good in the publisher's brown paper-covered boards half-bound in ivory vellum. Burgundy leather spine-label gilt-stamped. Top-edge gilt. 266pps. Neither the rare dustjacket nor the slipcase are present. There is modest sunning and wear in the area of the spine. The boards have light touches of soiling. Internally there is some browning to the endpapers and a previous owner's unassuming namestamp is near the top of the ffep and again on the rear pastedown; there is a spot of browning also on pgs 178-179 from where a newspaper clipping had been laid in. The binding is slightly brittle though sound with all pages intact. Other than the aforementioned minor flaw to page 178 the text is in excellent clean condition. One of 250 copies SIGNED by Huxley on a limitation page. ".Some people travel on business some in search of health. But it is neither the sickly nor the men of affairs who fill the Grand Hotels and the pockets of their proprietors. It is those who travel 'for pleasure' as the phrase goes. What Epicurus who never travelled except when he was banished sought in his own garden our tourists seek abroad. And do they find their happiness Those who freqeuent the places where they resort must often find this question with a tentative answer in the negative fairly forced upon them. For tourists are in the main a very gloomy-looking tribe. I have seen much brighter faces at a funeral than in the Piazza of St. Mark's. Only when they can band together and pretend for a brief precarious hour that they are at home do the majority of tourists look really happy. One wonders why they come abroad. The face is that very few travellers really like travelling. If they go to the trouble and expense of travelling it is not so much from curiosity for fun or because they like to see things beautiful and strange as out of a kind of snobbery. People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it. To have been to certain spots on the earth's surface is socially correct; and having been there one is superior to those who have not." -- from the quite witty and splendid opening. Purchase with confidence: all books gradings and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision photos can be emailed upon request. SIGNED by the Author. First American Edition. Hard Cover. George H. Doran Hardcover

Nooks Of Books · Stati Uniti400,00 USD≈ 356,67 €

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