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POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912 TADA (KEIICHI) Nankyoku Tanken Nikki, Tokyo, Maekdawa Bunoeikaku, 1912; and more (2)
23 March 2022, 12:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £510 inc. premium
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POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912
TADA (KEIICHI) Nankyoku Tanken Nikki, text in Japanese, one photographic plate only, 15 pages of advertisements at end, publisher's stiff wrappers printed in red, black and brown with illustration the expedition ship ("Kainan Maru") on the upper cover, worn, spine soiled with small losses at extremities [cf. Ross 1.3.1, calling for 19 pages of advertisements], 8vo, Tokyo, Maekdawa Bunoeikaku, 1912; and a punch-hole bound collection of 12 images relating to the Antarctic Expedition, 8 photographic, 4 after watercolours by Tada, one of which coloured, on 8 sheets, bound in red-printed note paper captioned in ink, in Japanese, "Antarctic Expedition Diary" 8vo, c.1912 (2)
Footnotes
This copy of Keiichi Tada's rare second book devoted to the Japanese Antarctic Expedition is bound without the title-page, dedication leaf and all but one of the plates, but includes more advertisements than Ross calls for. Sold with it is a suite of plates, intended for the book but separately bound with manuscript identifying them as relating to Tada's "Diary".