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70 2364 Ant arctica Scott R F 70/2364 [(Ant)arctica]. Scott, R.F. Scott's last Expedition. Ed. L. Huxley. Pref. C.R. Markham. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1913, 1st ed., 2 vols., XXVI,633,(3); XIV,(2),534p., 2 diff. photo-engr. frontisp. portraits and 6 plates, 8 fold. maps, 18 col. plates (16 after E.A. WILSON), 4 photogr. panoramas on 2 fold. plates and 260 (full-p.) photogr. ills. on plates by H.G. PONTING, orig. unif. giltlettered cl., t.e.g., 4to. - Sl. foxed. Lacks dustwr. as almost always. = Volume I: Being the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott. Volume II: Being the Reports of the Journeys & the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition. Taurus Collection 77; Headland 1440; Conrad p.188. "This is the famous, official expedition account. Scott's journals were among the material retrieved when the tent was discovered in November 1912. Atkinson spent several hours looking through the journals trying to discover what happened and read portions to the party. (...) This is the place to begin for this exhibition. Read this first, then supplement, compare and decide." (Conrad). "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 the Erebus, preliminary scientific reports from Edward Wilson's staff and throughout the unrivalled photography of Herbert Ponting " (Taurus Collection).