The Voyage of the 'discovery' 2 Volumes by Captain Robert F Scott (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First thus. With many illustrations, a fine set in fine dustjackets. ; 235 x 160mm; xlviii, 570 + xliv, 508 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 2 volumes - complete set. Fine hardcovers in Fine djs. Clean text, tight bindings, and clean and bright djs. Foreword by Fridtjof Nansen. New introduction by Ross MacPhee. With 270 full-page and smaller illustrations by Dr. E.A. Wilson and other members of the expedition, photogravure frontispiece, 12 plates in facsimile from Dr. Wilson's sketches, panoramas, and maps. First Edition, First Printing of the Cooper Square Press (2001) edition. 570pp., 508pp. Please note that the actual shipping rate will apply for this heavy 2-volume set.

Hard. Condition: Fair. With 260 full-page and smaller illustrations by Dr. E. A. Wilson and other members of the expedition, photogravure frontispieces, 12 coloured plates in facsimile from Dr. Wilson's sketches, panoramas and maps. (illustrator). First printing. Fair. Lacking dust jackets. Volume I is has a library binding. Ex private library copies; no stamps or markings but for the library bookplate to each front cover. Covers well worn and marked, the joint of vol. II is split 3" in the middle. Hinges split. First 7 leaves of vol. I have what looks like a small mouse nibble from the bottom corner of the fore-edge and the free front endpaper and half-title page are dog-eared. The gatherings of the leaves of vol. II are quite loose and shaken, with quires and leaves in danger of coming loose. The fold-out chart to the rear pocket of vol. II is torn around the edges and is missing the top-left corner. A very well used but serviceable set.

Hardcover Sehr gut. Condition: 0. Text Englisch. Zwei Bände, VOLLSTÄNDIG. Aus der Reihe "Macmillan's colonial library". Beide Bände: Blind-/goldgeprägte Eibände, jeweils goldgeprägte Rückentitelei, Front-/Fußschnitt nicht ebarbiert, ein wenig stockfleckig, ansonsten minimale Gebrauchsspuren. ERSTER BAND: 3 Namenseintragungen auf Vorsatzblatt, Exlibris, Frontispiz, XII, 410 Seiten, 4 Fototafeln (inkl. Frontispiz) und grosse unverletzte Faltkarte (antartic ocean) am Ende. +++ ZWEITER BAND: 2 Namenseintragungen auf Vorsatzblatt, Exlibris, Frontispiz (Christmas camp among the ice-borne boulders), VIII, 387 Seiten mit Index, 4 Fototafeln (inkl. Frontispiz) und grosse unverletzte Faltkarte (sledge journey from winter quarter) am Ende. Dazu 8seitige Verlagswerbung. BEIGEFÜGT: grosser Zeitungsartikel (special supplement to the Auckland weekly news), Thursday, February 20th, 1913. Text: The last words of a brave Englishman: Captain Scott's message (geschrieben 25. März 1912)- Die Welt erfuhr über die Tragödie, als Scott's Schiff Terra Nova, Oamaru in Neuseeland am 10. Februar 1913 erreichte. Ein Dokument! Insgesamt guter Zustand. +++ Text in English. A complete set of 2 clothbound volumes, minor shelve-wear, foxing on front-/lower edge. FIRST VOLUME: 3 names on front endpaper, Exlibris, XII, 410 pages with 4 photoplates (incl. Frontispiece), as well as a large and intact folded map of the antarctic ocean. +++ SECOND VOLUME: 2 names on front endpaper, Exlibris, VIII, 387 pages with 4 photoplates (incl. Frontispiece), as well as a large and intact folded map (sledge journey from winter quarter) . Plus publisher's advertisement. ADDED: A full page from the special supplement to the Auckland weekly news, Thursday, February 20th, 1913. Title: The last words of a brave Englishman: Captain Scott's message (25th March 1912)- the world was informed of the tragedy when Terra Nova reached Oamaru, New Zealand, on 10 February 1913. A document! Altogether good condition. +++ 13 x 19 cm je, Gewicht gesamt 1,01 kg. +++ Stichwörter/Keywords: Südpol Expedition Reisebericht polar Forschung Discovery-Expedition Antarktis South Pole Gewicht in Gramm: 1010.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Second impression. Good. Original blue cloth with gilt medallions. Folding maps present in rear pocket of each volume. Front flyleaf of each vol. bears the previous owner signature of "G.P.M. Fitzgerald, H.M.S. Glory 1905". Additional (different) previous owner info on half-title of vol. 1. Each volume - external hinges and corners worn, internal rear hinge cracked, but holding. Pages xv-xx loose (but present) in vol. I.

Cloth Boards w Gilt Dec. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition Second Impression. Boards are in clean and clear condition, some light rubbing and bumping, spines have some chips to head and foot, vol one has lightly sunned spine. Some v light foxing to some PP, closed edges are uncut, PP and illustrations are clean and clear, lovely gilt dec to front of boards. Size: Large 8vo.