(Captain Robert Falcon) The Voyage of the 'Discovery', 2 vol., first edition, signed presentation copy from the author to Dr. H[ugh] R[obert] Mill, inscribed on vol.I half-title, titles printed in red & black, frontispieces, plates, some double-page or colour, 2 folding maps in pockets at end, publisher's printed slip tipped onto front free endpaper, one map reinforced with linen at edges, inscribed half-title and first frontispiece detached, cancelled Scott Polar Research Institute stamps on titles and front pastedowns, tape burns to first title's inner margin, 1 f. of vol.II index with tape reinforcement, some light spotting, original blue cloth, gilt medallions on upper covers, spines worn with some loss, t.e.g., 1905; accompanied by the second issue of the same and a short typescript ?lecture about Scott's doomed expedition, 8vo (5) *** Hugh Robert Mill (1861-1950), Scottish geographer and meteorlogist. Mill was secretary to the Royal Geographical Society during its involvement with British Antarctic expeditions, and a friend to Scott, Shackleton and Spiers Bruce. He also wrote the introduction to Shackleton's 1909 The Heart of the Antarctic, as a well as a biography of Shackleton in 1923.
(Captain Robert Falcon) The Voyage of the 'Discovery', 2 vol., first edition, signed presentation copy from the author to Dr. H[ugh] R[obert] Mill, inscribed on vol.I half-title, titles printed in red & black, frontispieces, plates, some double-page or colour, 2 folding maps in pockets at end, publisher's printed slip tipped onto front free endpaper, one map reinforced with linen at edges, inscribed half-title and first frontispiece detached, cancelled Scott Polar Research Institute stamps on titles and front pastedowns, tape burns to first title's inner margin, 1 f. of vol.II index with tape reinforcement, some light spotting, original blue cloth, gilt medallions on upper covers, spines worn with some loss, t.e.g., 1905; accompanied by the second issue of the same and a short typescript ?lecture about Scott's doomed expedition, 8vo (5) *** Hugh Robert Mill (1861-1950), Scottish geographer and meteorlogist. Mill was secretary to the Royal Geographical Society during its involvement with British Antarctic expeditions, and a friend to Scott, Shackleton and Spiers Bruce. He also wrote the introduction to Shackleton's 1909 The Heart of the Antarctic, as a well as a biography of Shackleton in 1923.
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