British Antarctic Expedition: Meteorology – 3 Volumes­- Complete

Robert Falcon Scott

By G.C. Simpson

London & Calcutta - 1913-1923, First Edition. Three quarto volumes — large 4to (12 ¼” x 10”) — the complete Meteorology set in Near Fine Condition. Publishers dark burgundy clay endspapers, tight un-cracked hinges, no prior ownership or institutional markings — an excellent set.

Volume I: Discussion. 1919. [x], 326pp., publishers quarter red-violet buckram, burgundy cloth sides, spine lettered in gilt, brown-violet endspapers, frontis color map with overlay map tissue guard, 5 folding plates, 93 figures in illustration, 163 tables in text, errata bound in adjacent to p.1.

Volume II: Weather Maps and Pressure Curves. 1919. Quarter red-violet buckram, cloth sides, spine lettered in gilt, [ii], 138 weather maps., 23 folding plates of pressure curves,

Volume III: Tables. 1923. [xi], (1), 835pp., 88 tables. Red-violet cloth, spine blind stamped and lettered in gilt

With: the original tipped in flyer from Colonel HG Lyons presenting Vol. III from the Captain Scott Antarctic Fund.

—Renard 186, Taurus 91, Rosove 293-1.A1, 293-2.A1, 293-3.A1

The complete collection of meteorological scientific research documentation from Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-1913. This significant publication has become critical in today’s search for signs of global warming. A Rare complete set in Near Fine condition. Typically found in individual volumes and with institutional or library markings. This rare complete set has no prior ownership markings — clean throughout.