Discovery Expedition (12 results)

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Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 4 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

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Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 1st Limited Edition: This is copy 43 of a limited edition of 250. Original covers, no dust jacket, all page edges gilt. Copiously illustrated drawings in the text and full-page plates from sketches and paintings by E. Wilson and others. Gutta-percha binding very delicate with leaves just loosening. Ex Library with various library stamps on some pages. (The weight of the text blocks, which would tax even traditionally bound volumes, has in most cases proved too much for the Gutta percha, which is now mostly perished). The South Polar Times was a magazine written and printed by the members of Antarctic Expeditions during the various voyages they undertook. The South Polar Times form what is perhaps the most personal of the printed documents to have come out of that most remarkable of periods of Antarctic adventures revealing so many often contradictory aspects of these men's various personalities. 'During the Antarctic winter of 1902 and 1903, the officers of the National Antarctic Expedition on board the Discovery, among other diversions wherewith to lighten the long and dreary darkness, brought out at monthly intervals a periodical to which they gave the name of "The South Polar Times" the contents of which range over a wide field, grave and gay, scientific and humorous, prose and poetry. It contains a diary of the events of each month, a record of the proceedings of the local Debating Society, a monthly acrostic, humorous notes, besides articles of a more solid nature, as well as stories, sketches of various kinds, and poems of a standard considerably above average.' One of the corner stones of an Antarctic collection. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 39. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

First edition; 2 vols, 4to; vol. I: frontispiece, 14 plate leaves, large folding coloured map, 1 very large chart dissected into 4 parts with title sheet; vol. II: 261 leaves of weather maps printed on one side only, vol. I in red buckram backed boards, vol. II in bright carmine red cloth backed boards, spines faded, lightly soiled, a very good set; xiv, 544; 26 pp. From the library of Professor Otto Nordenskjà ld (1869-1928), the distinguished Swedish Antarctic explorer and scientist. Nordenskjà ld was on the Swedish scientific expedition to the Antarctic (1901-1903) and would have had a particular interest in the results of the Discovery expedition. Meteorology is an important work providing a compendium of over a thousand synoptic charts concerning the Antarctic, drawn not only from Scott's expedition, but also from the Scottish, Swedish, and German expeditions. This was the first attempt to give an idea of the general principles underlying atmospheric circulation in the southern hemisphere. Rosove 288-9.A1 * 288-210.A1 (binding b); Taurus 50; Spence 840.

First edition; 4to; 2 coloured maps (1 folding), 21 plates including 8 lithographs, photographic plates including a folding panorama; original red buckram-backed boards, spine faded, a very good copy; v, 192 pp. From the library of Professor Otto Nordenskjà ld (1869-1928), the distinguished Swedish Antarctic explorer and scientist. Nordenskjà ld was on the Swedish scientific expedition to the Antarctic (1901-1903) and would have had a particular interest in the results of the Discovery expedition. Physical Observations is notable for the series of eight lithographs of aurora observations including seven of aurora effects on thick brown paper. Rosove 288-8.A1; Spence 839; Taurus 47.

First edition; 4to; 43 plates, original red buckram-backed boards, spine fade, small stamps to foot of title, a very good copy; vii, 274 pp. From the library of Professor Otto Nordenskjà ld (1869-1928), the distinguished Swedish Antarctic explorer and scientist. Nordenskjà ld was on the Swedish scientific expedition to the Antarctic (1901-1903) and would have had a particular interest in the results of the Discovery expedition. The volume includes an appendix comparing magnetic observations in the Antarctic and the Arctic. Rosove 288-11.A1; Spence 841; Taurus 48.

overall 40x 58cm, (15.3/4" x 23"), engraved plate illustration, fine condition. (Ar). see Holland p279-280.

The original visitor's book for one of the stellar red-carpet events of the season: the Bruton Galleries exhibition of artefacts and artwork from Scott's Discovery expedition, a landmark in polar exploration.It includes the signatures of numerous crew members, including Ernest H. Shackleton, Edward A. Wilson, Charles Royds, Reginald Skelton, and Ernest E. Joyce, alongside Clements Markham and Llewellyn Longstaff, a financial angel of the expedition. The exhibition, which opened in November 1904, was curated by Clements Markham, who had organized the expedition and launched Scott's polar career. It was remarkably extensive, the catalogue listing 484 items, including 150 photographs by Reginald Skelton, 200 watercolours and drawings by Edward A. Wilson, equipment from the expedition, a model of the Discovery, rations, and the South Polar Times. The photographs and artwork constituted a visual record of Antarctic conditions and documented gruelling conditions, bringing home "the scale, magic, and danger of Antarctica with a compelling immediacy" (Merwe & Michell, p. 66). The show proved extraordinarily popular, with "Bruton Street and New Bond Street lined with motorcars and carriages" (Huxley, p. 141). "Persons of rank and fashion were marshalled into a long queue by a policeman. Society folk were not used to queues in those days, and they protested that they had tickets; so, had everyone, the constable replied, and kept them in line" (Huxley, p. 141). It fuelled the public's growing excitement about polar exploration: "an exhibit of Wilson's Antarctic art attracted over ten thousand viewers to London's prestigious Bruton Gallery. Advertisements in the gallery catalogue touted paints and binoculars used by the artist in the Antarctic" (Larson p, 159). The Discovery crew received an exuberant homecoming, hailed for their "British grit", and Edward VII awarded each man the Antarctic medal. "Indeed, for many, Scott and his men became the national heroes that the Boer War had failed to supply. The explorers became celebrities. Crowds packed their public appearances" (Larson, p. 158). The leading actress Ellen Terry attended the event. She had been present when the expedition docked in Portsmouth, later writing a postcard to Scott thanking him for letting her see the Discovery. The members of the Discovery expedition who have signed include Ernest H. Shackleton (third lieutenant), Edward A. Wilson (assistant surgeon and artist), Charles Royds (first lieutenant), Reginald Skelton (chief engineer and photographer), Ernest E. Joyce (petty officer), Arthur Henry Blissett (steward), Jacob Cross (petty officer), Hartley T. Ferrar (geologist), and Reginald C. Ford (chief steward and stores officer). Curiously, Scott is not among them. This might be a consequence of his resolve "to keep as quiet as possible" after the expedition (Huxley, p. 158). Three Shackleton family members attended: Ernest H. Shackleton's sisters Gladys and Helen, besides Eileen Shackleton of Bushey. Other noted polar explorers feature among the visitors, such as Robert Rudmose-Brown of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition Scotia (1902-4), alongside its honorary secretary, James G. Ferrier. Another notable voyager is Charles Ede, the assistant surgeon on HMS Assistance on the British Franklin Search Expedition (1850-1), and a "Mrs. Reynolds" the great-niece of Franklin. The visitor's book serves as a record of an early 20th-century red carpet event and contains approximately 1,000 signatures, including the writer Walter Jerrold, alongside the artists Felix Moscheles and Marietta Pallis. Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scout movement also attended. Princess Beatrice and Maria Amelia, Queen of Portugal likewise attended. Successive pages record visitors from Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Scotland. Moreover, there are numerous admirals, and military men, together with a collector of Egyptian art. Two further sections in the book relate to miscellaneous exhibitions held in later years. Elspeth Huxley, Scott, 1990; Max Jones, The Last Great Quest, 2004; Edward J. Larson, An Empire of Ice, 2011; Pieter van der Merwe and Jeremy Michell (eds), South: The Race to the Pole, 2018. Folio (283 x 245 mm). Contemporary dark red skiver by Jas. Truscott & Sons of London, flat spine gilt-lettered direct, spine and covers decorated in gilt, front cover lettered "Bruton Galleries/Visitor's Book", marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; 115 lined pages signed bearing approximately 2,000 names and addresses, all recto (of which, 57 lined pages with approximately 1,000 signatures pertaining to the Discovery expedition). Extremities with slight wear from handling, some stripping of leather, minor toning, general finger soiling. A very good copy.

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