From Edinburgh to the Antarctic. An Artist's Notes and Sketches During the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93; With a Chapter by W.S. Bruce, Naturalist of the Barque 'Balaena'

Murdoch, W. G. Burn

Published by London Longmans, Green and Co. 1894, 1894

About this Item

ix,(3),364, 32 pages of ads. Octavo. First edition. Original silver decorated dark green cloth. A tiny bit of professional restoration at the top of the spine. Coated black endpapers. Exploration bookplate on front pastedown. Foredge untrimmed. Half title. Minor corner tideline on the bottom of the title page. Two maps (one folding). Numerous illustrations in text. A bit of scattered foxing, more so at the preliminaries. A very bright, little worn, copy. Rosove 234.A1.a; Spence 825, Renard 1108. Signed and dated in 1920 by J. Gordon Hayes on the title page. Hayes published a number of the standard polar histories, including: Antarctica: A Treatise on the Southern Continent; Conquest of the South Pole; Robert: A Record of His Explorations; and The Conquest of the North Pole. Hayes has underlined in pencil in many places as well as made minor pencil notations. Also with the bookplate of Patrick Walcot, a noted retired polar bookseller. Murdoch's account of 'the pioneer British whaling expedition to Antarctica' (Nat. Mar. Mus. Cat.) includes entertaining anecdotes of the minutiae of life on board the ship, in addition to detailed records of animal life and seal-hunting in the Southern Regions.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Edinburgh to the Antarctic. An Artist's Notes and Sketches During the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93; With a Chapter by W.S. Bruce, Naturalist of the Barque 'Balaena'
• Publisher: London Longmans, Green and Co. 1894
• Publication Date: 1894
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel and Exploration