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SCOTT, CAPTAIN ROBERT, F. - The Voyage of the 'Discovery'.
Estimate:
$400 - $600
Sold
$350
Timed Auction
196 Rare Books including The John Mowbray Collection
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SCOTT, CAPTAIN ROBERT, F.
The Voyage of the 'Discovery'.
[publisher: 1905] London: Smith Elder & Co. 1905, 1st edition, 2nd impression. Two volumes. Complete with 2 frontis, colour & black & white plates & panoramas, maps [including 2 fldg in back pockets], advertisement slip tipped-in at front of Vol. I. and loosely enclosed publicity leaf for 'South Polar Times'. Title pages printed in red/black, 245mm, orig. blue ribbed cloth with gilt crested insignia on front covers, spines gilt titled top edge gilt other edges uncut. A VG complete set of this First Edition: 2nd Impression. Inscription on title page Vol.I. owner’s names in both volumes.
Spence 1051. NOTE: Reportedly only 500 copies of the Second Impression of the First Edition were issued of which half were published by Smith Elder & Co. and half by John Murray. This set comprises the first issue whilst the Murray imprint of the same year constitutes the second issue.
The Voyage of the 'Discovery'.
[publisher: 1905] London: Smith Elder & Co. 1905, 1st edition, 2nd impression. Two volumes. Complete with 2 frontis, colour & black & white plates & panoramas, maps [including 2 fldg in back pockets], advertisement slip tipped-in at front of Vol. I. and loosely enclosed publicity leaf for 'South Polar Times'. Title pages printed in red/black, 245mm, orig. blue ribbed cloth with gilt crested insignia on front covers, spines gilt titled top edge gilt other edges uncut. A VG complete set of this First Edition: 2nd Impression. Inscription on title page Vol.I. owner’s names in both volumes.
Spence 1051. NOTE: Reportedly only 500 copies of the Second Impression of the First Edition were issued of which half were published by Smith Elder & Co. and half by John Murray. This set comprises the first issue whilst the Murray imprint of the same year constitutes the second issue.
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