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[POLAR EXPLORATION] PRIESTLEY, Raymond E., Sir (1886–1974). Antarctic Adventure: Scott’s Northern Party. Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, n.d. [1914]. Thick 8vo. Half title. FIRST CANADIAN EDITION. Frontispiece, profusely illustrated from photographs, 3 folding maps. Original publisher’s pictorial light blue cloth stamped in silver gilt, top edge gilt (spine lightly sunned with faint cockling, few small stains to boards, occasional pale spotting to text, contemporary ownership signature to ffep). Rosove 256.A3; not in Spence. Appears to be the scarcest of all the editions as many copies were destroyed during a fire at the publisher’s warehouse.