Scott's Last Expedition . . . Vol. I being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott . . . Vol. II. being the Reports of the Journeys & the Scientific Work undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition. Arranged by Leonard Huxley. Scott, Captain Robert F. Antarctic,Exploration,Polar

First edition. 8vo. 2 vols. pp. xxvi, 633 & xiv, [2], 534; port. frontis. to both volumes, numerous black and white photographic plates, several coloured plates, large folding maps to both volumes & maps to text; some foxing, occasionally heavy, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, t.e.g., in the original d.-w.s, which are non-uniformly browned on spines, d.-w. to vol. II chipped at head of spine with slight loss and split along joints. Provenance: with the ownership inscriptions of Julia Warde-Aldam, of Hooton Pagnell Hall, 1913. An association copy of the official narrative of Scott's 1910 -13 expedition during which he, Edward Wilson and three companions died on their return from the South Pole. The books were once the property of Julia Warde-Aldam, of Hooton Pagnell Hall, Yorkshire, and she and her family developed a friendship with Edward Wilson through Wilson's brother Bernard (estate manager of the hall). Letters between the Wilsons and the Warde-Aldams were sold at auction.