[NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION].
Meteorology.
Meteorology.
Part I: Observations at Winter Quarters and on Sledge Journeys with Discussions by Various Authors. Prepared under the Superintendence of the Director of the Meteorological Office with the Co-operation of a Committee of the Royal Society.
Part II: Comprising daily synchronous charts; 1st October, 1901, to 31st March, 1904. Prepared in the Meteorological Office, under the superintendence of M.W. Campbell Hepworth, C.B., R.D., Commander R.N.R. Marine Superintendent.
Stock Code 115669
London, Royal Society, 1908-1913.
Meteorology is an important work providing a compendium of over a thousand synoptic charts concerning the Antarctic, drawn not only from Scott's expedition, but also from the Scottish, Swedish, and German expeditions. This was the first attempt to give an idea of the general principles underlying atmospheric circulation in the southern hemisphere.
First edition. 2 vols, 4to, xiv, 544; 26 pp., vol 1 with frontispiece, 14 plate leaves, large folding coloured map, 1 very large chart dissected into 4 parts with title sheet; vol 2 with 261 leaves of weather maps printed on one side only, vol in red buckram backed boards, vol 2 in bright carmine red cloth backed boards, spines faded, lightly soiled, a very good set.
Rosove 288-9.A1 and 288-210.A1 (binding b); Taurus 50; Spence 840.
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