Scott's Last Expedition.

A fine set of the first edition of the most widely known of all Antarctic 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 Erebus, preliminary scientific reports from Edward Wilson's staff and throughout the unrivalled photography of Herbert Ponting' (Taurus).

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo (24 x 18 cm); profusely illustrated with photographs, maps, plans, sketches, etc., including 18 in colour; publisher's original blue cloth, gilt lettering to spines and upper boards, a fine set; xxvi, 633; xvi, 534 pp.

Books on Ice, 6.10; Rosove 290.A1; Taurus 77.