SCOTT, Robert Falcon, Captain (1868–1912). The Diaries of… Buckinghamshire: University Microfilms, 1968. 6 volumes, 8vo and 4to. Original gilt–lettered blue cloth. FIRST FACSIMILE EDITION of this important and “unexpectedly scarce” publication of the complete collection of Scott’s diary entries compiled by the explorer, recording the Second Antarctic Expedition 1910–1912. The first three volumes contain Scott’s manuscript dairies in facsimile. The fourth volume reproduces the typescript of The South Polar Times; and the final two volumes contain Scott’s diaries documenting his final sledging journeys that were recovered from his tent after the fatal journey from the Pole. Conrad, p. 188; Spence 1078; Taurus 88. [With:] PRIESTLY, Raymond E. Work and Adventures of the Northern Party of Captain Scott’s Antarctic Expedition, 1910–1913 [In: The Geographical Journal, Vol. XLIII, No. I]. London: The Royal Geographical Society, January 1914. 8vo. Numerous illustrations including a large folding map. Original printed blue wrappers. This is the pre–publication account of the six–man Northern Party of Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition (Scott’s Last Expedition), later in the same year to be published as Antarctic Adventure by Raymond Priestley (Rosove 256.A1).
SCOTT, Robert Falcon, Captain (1868–1912). The Diaries of… Buckinghamshire: University Microfilms, 1968. 6 volumes, 8vo and 4to. Original gilt–lettered blue cloth. FIRST FACSIMILE EDITION of this important and “unexpectedly scarce” publication of the complete collection of Scott’s diary entries compiled by the explorer, recording the Second Antarctic Expedition 1910–1912. The first three volumes contain Scott’s manuscript dairies in facsimile. The fourth volume reproduces the typescript of The South Polar Times; and the final two volumes contain Scott’s diaries documenting his final sledging journeys that were recovered from his tent after the fatal journey from the Pole. Conrad, p. 188; Spence 1078; Taurus 88. [With:] PRIESTLY, Raymond E. Work and Adventures of the Northern Party of Captain Scott’s Antarctic Expedition, 1910–1913 [In: The Geographical Journal, Vol. XLIII, No. I]. London: The Royal Geographical Society, January 1914. 8vo. Numerous illustrations including a large folding map. Original printed blue wrappers. This is the pre–publication account of the six–man Northern Party of Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition (Scott’s Last Expedition), later in the same year to be published as Antarctic Adventure by Raymond Priestley (Rosove 256.A1).
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