The Antarctic Manual for the Use of the Expedition of 1901
MURRAY, ed., George
Edited by George Murray. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. Presented to the Expedition and issued by the Royal Geographical Society. [Facsimile reissue].
500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Published: [Explorer Books Plaistow Sussex], [1994]
Stock code: 38888
Price: £148.00
8vo., with 3 large folding maps and very numerous illustrations, diagrams and tables in the text; blind-blocked cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy.
EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. This work, prepared for Scott's British Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904, contains a valuable and wide-ranging storehouse of scientific and practical Antarctic data by acknowledged authorities. It includes a particularly extensive bibliography of Antarctic exploration and research compiled by Hugh Robert Mill (formerly librarian to the RGS). Spence, 829 (recording the scarce original edition of 1901).