ARMITAGE, ALBERT B. 1864-1943.

Two Years in the Antarctic. Being a Narrative of the British National Antarctic Expedition. London: Edward Arnold, 1905.

Two Years in the Antarctic. Being a Narrative of the British National Antarctic Expedition. London: Edward Arnold, 1905.
8vo. Frontispiece, 14 photographic plates, 1 folding map, numerous illustrations in the text. Publisher's pictorial green cloth, gilt titles on spine. Spine sunned, slightly loose, scattered foxing, one-inch tear to folding map.

FIRST EDITION of this scarce and important account of Scott's Discovery Expedition, written by Scott's second-in-command. Includes illustrations from The Blizzard, "whose contents consisted of poetical effusions rejected by The South Polar Times, [and] did not survive the first number." Rosove 17.A1.c; Spence 67; Taurus 43.