£1,197
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 739
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration in Arctic Seas. By Three of the Staff. First edition, 8vo, original grey pictorial cloth, purple endpapers, top edge gilt, 58 photographic plates including frontispiece, 3 maps (2 folding), decoration and lettering on spine rubbed away as usual, tips bumped, text-block toned, a few leaves spotted, pp. 41-44 clumsily opened, short closed tear to large folding map at rear [Rosove 50.A1.b]
Note: Inscribed by the expedition leader to the then prime minister on the half-title, the inscription reading 'The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, P.C., M.P., with compliments from Wm. S. Bruce, Edinburgh, 1910'. Rosove cites a copy inscribed by Bruce to Churchill at Edinburgh in the same year, in the same variant binding with purple endpapers.