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BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1910-1913
BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1910-1913 British Museum (Natural History). British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition 1910. Natural History Reports . London: 1914-1964. 60 parts only (of 63) in 41 volumes, large 4° (312 x 238mm. approx.) Numerous plates, maps, charts, graphs (some folding, some coloured), illustrations. Original red paper wrappers (33 parts), grey paper wrappers (6 parts) or near-contemporary cloth (2 volumes containing 21 parts, with original red wrappers bound in). Provenance : British Museum (Natural History), Board Room (stamps in parts bound in red wrappers or bound into cloth). All but six parts from an issue of 25 copies 'printed on Special paper', each numbered '1' or 'one'. A fine, near - complete set of the natural history results from the expedition, including the separately issued preliminary general title and contents leaf to each complete volume. Rosove 292-1 to 292-12, 292-14, 292-17 to 292-63; see also Spence 186 (incomplete set). [ With :] a near-complete set of the second large series of scientific results from the Terra Nova expedition, these published for the Committee of the Captain Scott Antarctic Fund and financed by the fund: [H.G.LYONS (editor)]. British (Terra Nova) Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913 [Scientific Results] . Calcutta [first two vols.] or London: 1919-1924. 11 parts only [of 13], large 4° [303 x 245mm. approx.]. Plates, maps, charts and graphs [some folding]. Original green wrappers, contemporary red cloth or later red cloth. Rosove 293-1.A1- 293-3.A1, 293-5.A1, 293-6.A1, 293-8.A1 - 293-13.A1; see Spence (many parts listed separately under their individual authors). (52)