Robert Falcon Scott - H.M.S. Calypso CKS 2007

H.M.S. Calypso
Taken from an Autograph log as midshipman on HMS Euphrates, Boadicea, Royal Adelaide, Liberty, Monarch and Rover, 8 September 1883-5 August 1887, in a volume printed in log-book form by Clarke & Son, illustrated with 20 hand-drawn charts, 41 drawings and watercolours of coastal scenes, buildings and ships, 7 diagrams of shipboard instruments and gear, and 7 decorated title-pages, mostly interleaved; an addendum in the final three pages lists remarks on his conduct made by each of his captains between July 1883 and August 1895, approximately 482 pages, folio, half black roan (extremities rubbed).



Lot number: Live Auction 7470 lot 323 Sale 27 Sep 2007