$NZ1400 ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE - SCOTT'S NORTHERN PARTY, Raymond Priestley, T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1914. First edition. A very good copy of a scarce book

ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE - SCOTT'S NORTHERN PARTY, Raymond Priestley, T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1914. First edition. A very good copy of a scarce book - 1000 copies were destroyed during a fire at the publisher's warehouse after a Zepplin bombing raid, 1914, . Forced into an epic winter in a snowcave when the Terra Nova failed to pick them up, the party eventually trekked back to Cape Evans. Harrowing in the extreme, 382 page VG hardback, folding map in rear. Original blue & silver gilt pictorial cloth with the picture of the Antarctic camp on the front cover and of 3 men on the spine, v minor frays top & on lower spine ends, - an unusually bright copy. - $NZ1400 (Arnold Heine Collection)

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ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE - SCOTT'S NORTHERN PARTY, Raymond Priestley, T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1914. First edition. A very good copy of a scarce book - 1000 copies were destroyed during a fire at the publisher's warehouse after a Zepplin bombing raid, 1914, . Forced into an epic winter in a snowcave when the Terra Nova failed to pick them up, the party eventually trekked back to Cape Evans. Harrowing in the extreme, 382 page VG hardback, folding map in rear. Original blue & silver gilt pictorial cloth with the picture of the Antarctic camp on the front cover and of 3 men on the spine, v minor frays top & on lower spine ends, - an unusually bright copy. - $NZ1400 (Arnold Heine Collection)