£1,100
Scott, Robert Falcon; Shackleton, Ernest H. and others, editors, ‘South Polar Times’ volume 3, London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1914, first edition, 4to., numbered 236 of 350, numerous plates, maps and illustrations, some chromolithographed, after Herbert Ponting, Edmund Wilson and others, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, good edition, some leaves becoming detached from gutta percha binding.
Note: An important work and a cornerstone of any Antarctic collection. "The owner of these volumes will possess an exact reproduction of the original 'South Polar Times' which appeared month by month during the winters of 1902-3, produced as they were for the sole edification of our small company of explorers in the 'Discovery' then held fast in the Antarctic ice" (Robert F. Scott, from the Preface).
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