scott capt robert (6 Ergebnisse)

Cloth over boards. Zustand: Very good. Fourth edition. Two volume set. Hardcover cloth (blue) over boards. Volume 1: xxvi + 636 + [123 plates] + [2 maps] pp; volume 2: xviii + 534 + [89 plates] + [8 maps] pp. Illustrated with b/w and colour plates -- volume 1: photographic frontispiece of Captain Scott, 6 sketches, 10 coloured full-page photographs, 2 fold-out photographic panoramas, 104 full-page photographs, and 2 fold-out maps; volume 2: photographic frontispiece of Edward A. Wilson, 7 water colour drawings, 1 coloured full-page photograph, 3 fold-out photographic panoramas, 77 full-page photographs, and 8 maps. Uniform binding. Title stamped in gilt with blind single line border on front board. Title, volume, publisher, and decorative rulings stamped in gilt on spine. Both text blocks have slight age browning to their edges, with the occasional brown mark in the body. Generally clean, unmarked and square with a strong binding. Both volumes show minor shelfwear to their edges, hinges, and spine. Lightly bumped corners. Volume 2 has a small white mark over the 'R' in Elder. .

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. photos, color plates, maps (illustrator). First American edition. Octavos, dark green cloth. 443, 376 pages Dogged by difficulties, and beaten to the pole by Amundsen by a month, then their luck turned Scott's second and last expedition to the Antarctic was to explore the Ross Sea area and to reach the South Pole. bad. There were no survivors of the polar party. Vol.1 is the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott. Vol.2 is the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition. Abundantly illustrated, the maps and plates are quite well done and deserve to be appreciated in the freshness and colors of the original.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good +. Unrecorded Times Book Club edition. This unusual printing was offered through the The Times (London) as part of the newly formed Times Book Club, organized by Horace Everett Hooper and C. F. Moberly Bell in 1905. The Book Club was set up to run a circulating library, its main aim to increase Times circulation, which it did. Subscribers paid 3 pounds 18s per year, on the promise that a subscriber would get "the books he asked for on the very day he asked for them" (Publisher's Weekly, 1906, Vol. 70, p1304). When the books became "second-hand", they were to be sold to the subscribers at reduced prices. This would be one of those copies. It is in a slightly different binding than the first edition, with a Times Book Club crest on the lower spine and without the gilt medallion on the front cover. After careful comparison with a first edition, these sheets appear to be identical to the first run of 3,000 copies. The sheets are trimmed at the foredge and base making this copy slightly smaller than a Smith Elder first edition. The typeface on the spine differs and there is a flat tooled line at the top and bottom of the spine and boards (gilt on the spine, blind on the boards.) The Book Club commenced in 1905 and the publication date of "Discovery" was 12th October 1905. The Book Club, and Horace Hooper's tenure at The Times as advertising director ended in 1908, with the arrival of the new proprietor, Lord Northcliffe, who was a substantial contributor to the "Discovery" expedition. In 36 years of specializing in Polar books, we have never had a London Times Book Club edition. We have seen copies with the Times Book Club sticker within, but not this binding. This binding is not recorded in Rosove, but conforms to Rosove 286. A1 within. 8vo, 2 volumes: 556pp, photogravure frontispiece from a drawing by Dr. Wilson, 7 color plates, 1 double page plate, 119 b&w mostly photographic illustrations, illustrations in text, 3 maps (&) 508pp, photogravure portrait, 6 color plates, 4 double page plates, 124 b&w mostly photographic illustrations, index, 2 maps. Contains both maps in the back pockets. Scattered light foxing in both volumes. With no advertisements at the rear, no extra slips and no dust wrapper, conforms to Rosove 286. Top edges gilt. Spines slightly sunned, a bit ruffled at spine head of Volume I.

First American edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, pp. xxiv, 443, [1]; xiv, [2], 376; photogravure frontispieces, 6 photogravure plates, 18 colored plates, 5 folding photographic panoramas, 2 facsimiles, 8 maps (4 folding), and 260 full page and smaller photographic illustrations; original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine, t.e.g.; a very good, sound copy. "What Scott wrote at the end of his life was an inspiration in meeting death with supreme dignity, and his words entreat reading again and again. One does not have to wonder why Scott's Last Expedition has gone through so many editions and printings: few stories of exploration touch the soul so deeply" (Rosove). Rosove 290.B1; Spence, 1058.

First Edition. First edition, second printing, 2 volumes, 8vo, p. xix, [1], 556 plus 1 leaf of ads for The South Polar Times; xii, 508; "with 260 full-page and smaller illustrations by Dr. E. A. Wilson and other members of the expedition, photogravure frontispieces, 12 coloured plates . from Dr. Wilson's sketches, panoramas and maps," including two large folding maps in rear cover pockets; original blue cloth, gilt medallions on upper covers, gilt-lettered direct on spine; some cracking at the spine extremities, one half-dollar size waterstain on the upper cover of vol. I; all else very good, sound, and bright. Spence, 1048 (making no distinction between printings).

Printed broadside measuring 765 by 505mm. Browned and chipped with some tape repairs to verso. A very delicate production on poor quality paper. Bacup, Court Theatre, [ Extremely rare. Returning Antarctic explorers invariably ended up on the lecture circuit as a way of either repaying debts or raising much needed income. This piece is particularly interesting as it not only pre-dates the awful conclusion of Scott's expedition, but even Ponting's own return from the Antarctic. He didn't leave the Antarctic until February, 1912.   One can only imagine the excitement and anticipation of the public on seeing Ponting's spectacular images. Not only would they have been amazed by the beauty of the photographs, but surely filled with optimism at the prospect of Scott and his men being the first to reach the South Pole.   Indeed, just five days before the date of this performance, Tuesday 9 January, 1912, Scott's Polar Party separated from the accompanying crew members and the five of them headed to the South Pole. The death of the entire Polar Party was one of the great tragedies of the Heroic Age. This broadside is a poignant reminder of the public's hope and fascination with the expedition.   Ephemeral material such as this is extremely rare, this example is not located on OCLC.