Lot 44
  • 44

Armitage, Albert Borlase

Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description

  • Armitage, Albert Borlase
  • Two Years in the Antarctic. Being a Narrative of the British National Antarctic Expedition. London: Edward Arnold, 1905
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, xx, 316pp., 16pp. adverts, half-title, folding coloured map, 28 photographic illustrations on 16 plates, original light green pictorial cloth, slipcase, a very few leaves spotted

Literature

Taurus 43; Spence 67

Condition

An exceptional copy
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Catalogue Note

One of the few first-hand accounts of Scott's Discovery expedition to have been separately published. According to Taurus, copies with a green cloth spine are seldom found as the cloth had a tendency to fade. This copy may therefore be considered exceptional.