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PONTING, Herbert G. (1870–1935). The Great White South: Being an Account of Experiences with Captain Scott’s South Pole Expedition and of the Nature Life of the Antarctic. London: Duckworth, 1921. 8vo. Frontispiece, 96 plates from photographs, map. Modern half blue morocco gilt, retaining original top cloth and spine laid down. FIRST EDITION. Rosove 251.A1; Spence 925; Taurus 82. –– [TOGETHER WITH:] The Great White South… New York: Robert M. McBride, 1923. 8vo. Illustrated. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in black; original dust jacket. Second American edition. Spence 928. –– [ALSO:] Het eeuwige ijs: De zuidpool–expeditie van Kapitein Scott. Amsterdam: J. M. Meulenhoff, [1924]. 8vo. Publisher’s tan pictorial cloth. FIRST DUTCH EDITION. –– Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, all illustrated from photographs by Ponting who set the standard for subsequent polar expedition photography after the success of his visual record of Scott’s second Antarctic expedition.