RUDMOSE-BROWN, Robert Neal (1879-1957); Robert Cockburn MOSSMAN (1870-1940); and James Hunter Harvey PIRIE (1878-1965). The Voyage of the 'Scotia'. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration in the Antarctic Seas. Edinburgh: Wm. Blackwood, 1906.

8vo. With large folding map, 2 further maps (1 folding and in color), and 59 photographic plates. (Pale foxing.) Original publisher's grey cloth (corners slightly bumped). Provenance: Collector's bookplates, a few pencil marks. FIRST EDITION of the primary narrative account of the Scotia and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04, planned and led by William S. Bruce. He had declined the opportunity of accompanying Scott's Discovery expedition as a naturalist, and instead embarked upon this Scottish-financed voyage to the Weddell Sea. As Taurus notes, the underfunded expedition became frozen over the winter, but nonetheless Bruce discovered Coats Land, and undertook the first thorough study of penguins. Rosove 50; Spence 193; Taurus Collection 51.

[With:] RUDMOSE-BROWN, Robert Neal (1879-1957). A Naturalist at the Poles: The Life, Work & Voyages of Dr. W. S. Bruce the Polar Explorer. London: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd., 1923.

8vo. Half-title; 24 plates, 2 folding maps; 4pp. advertisements at end. Publisher's pictorial black cloth blocked in blue; WITH THE RARE PRINTED DUST-JACKET (some browning and chipping, a few short tears). Provenance: Collector's bookplate, a few pencil marks. FIRST EDITION of Rudmose-Brown's biography of his friend William S. Bruce. Spence 195.

RUDMOSE-BROWN, Robert Neal (1879-1957); Robert Cockburn MOSSMAN (1870-1940); and James Hunter Harvey PIRIE (1878-1965). The Voyage of the 'Scotia'. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration in the Antarctic Seas. Edinburgh: Wm. Blackwood, 1906.