By Robert N Brown; Robert Mossman Rudmose; J H Harvey Pirie
Edinburgh   William Blackwood and Sons
9" by 6" xii, [3], xvi-xxiv, [1], 2-375pp
A first edition of this scientific account to the Weddell Sea and the Establishment of a Meteorological Station in the South Orkneys.
By Robert N Brown; Robert Mossman Rudmose; J H Harvey Pirie

1906 The Voyage of the Scotia

Edinburgh   William Blackwood and Sons
9" by 6" xii, [3], xvi-xxiv, [1], 2-375pp
A first edition of this scientific account to the Weddell Sea and the Establishment of a Meteorological Station in the South Orkneys.
£700.00
: 1kgs / : 745L16

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First Edition, Folding Maps, Publishers' Original Binding

From the library of Kenn Back, with his bookplate to the front pastedown.  Loosely inserted is a note 'Bought in Buenos Aires c.1998 from Graciela Rogers: it was her father's copy'. 

Stamp to the title page 'Juan Carlos Amadeo 1911'. 

Kenn Back was a British meteorologist with the British Antarctic survey.  He spent eight winters in the antarctic and was a descendent of Captain George Back. 

A complete copy of this first edition.

Collated, complete. 

With frontispiece, three maps, and multiple plates. 

In the original pictorial cloth binding. 

The Scotia expedition was led by William Spiers Bruce of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. They sailed north on the SY Scotia and collected nearly 1000 stereographic glass plate negatives of photographs taken on the expedition.

Condition

In the original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, very smart with the image fading to the front board and spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of spine. Bookplate to the front pastedown, Kenn Back. Internally, firmly bound. Small closed tar to the gutter of the large folding map. Prior owner's rubber stamp to the title page, not affecting text. Several ink annotations in text, and a few lines in pencil providing emphasis to page 79. Pages are bright. Heavy spotting throughout, heavier to the first and last few pages.

Very Good

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