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POLAR - FRENCH ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION
CHARCOT (JEAN-BAPTISTE) Journal de l'Expédition Antarctique Française: Le 'Français' au Pôle Sud, FIRST EDITION, Paris, Flammarion, [1906]

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POLAR - FRENCH ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION

CHARCOT (JEAN-BAPTISTE) Journal de l'Expédition Antarctique Française: Le 'Français' au Pôle Sud, FIRST EDITION, 29 plates (mostly photographic) and maps, one folding publisher's pictorial wrappers, short tears to extremities of upper hinge, [Conrad, p.134; Taurus 54], 4to, Paris, Flammarion, [1906]

Footnotes

"The official narrative of Charcot's first venture into the Antarctic... Charcot originally set out to rescue Otto Nordenskjold, the missing Swedish explorer. Though he failed in the race to Nordenskjold, he managed to create the best charts to date of large portions of the Antarctic Peninsula and Gerlache Strait" (Taurus). Unusually, this copy is in the original wrappers (most are rebound with the wrappers bound in), with its striking Art Nouveau-esque design including penguins and walruses on the ice.

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