[BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION]. TAYLOR, Griffith (1880-1963). British (Terra Nova) Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913. The Physiography of the McMurdo Sound and Granite Harbor Region. London: Harrison and Sons for the Committee of the Captain Scott Antarctic Fund, 1922.
4to. 7 maps (4 folding in rear pocket), 141 photographic illustrations on 53 plates, 2 panoramic views on 1 folding plate, numerous illustrations in the text. Original red-violet pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt (spine gently sunned with small stain, light rubbing at corners, light stain on upper cover, discrete evidence of library call number on spine). Provenance: Derby Technical College (stamps on half-title verso, title-page and pastedown); Captain Richard Campbell (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. “This is the more formal scientific account of Taylor’s western journeys - the third outing for his descriptive powers (the first appeared in Scott’s Last Expedition, Volume II). Nevertheless, it is undoubtedly the most lavishly illustrated and charted version, as well as the most difficult of his titles to obtain” (Taurus). Renard 186; Rosove 293-7.A1; Spence 1184; Taurus 90.