MURRAY, GEORGE, EDITOR.

The Antarctic Manual for the Use of the Expedition of 1901. London: Royal Geographical Society, 1901.

The Antarctic Manual for the Use of the Expedition of 1901. London: Royal Geographical Society, 1901.
8vo. Half-title, illustrations in the text, lacking the 3 folding maps (supplied in facsimile). Publisher's blindstamped blue cloth gilt. Spine sunned, frayed at head, lacking original folding maps.

FIRST EDITION, conceived by Sir Clements Markham to distribute to members of the British National Antarctic Expedition. It contains thirty articles and many figures and maps documenting previous explorations in and towards Antarctica. Also included are previously unpublished papers by Balleny and Biscoe, who made important discoveries in the early nineteenth century; sections from the United States Exploring Expedition (Wilkes), and the French expedition under Dumont D'Urville, but interestingly it has nothing about the British expedition under James Clark Ross. Rosove 235.A1; Spence 829; Taurus 39.