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JEAN-BAPTISTE ÉTIENNE CHARCOT (1867-1936)
The Voyage of the 'Why Not?' in the Antarctic. The Journal of the Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908-1910 ... English Version by Philip Walsh, London and New York: Butler & Tanner for Hodder & Stoughton, [c.1911]. 4° (250 x 190mm.). Folding frontispiece, 41 leaves of plates, one map. (Some spotting to text.) Original blue cloth, upper cover blocked in gilt and blind, spine blocked in gilt and white.
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, second issue with cancel title page: 'an especially attractive volume, one of the nicest of the heroic era literature, in large octavo format with generous margins, with high-quality full-page plates, in a beautiful binding' (Rosove). Conrad p.157; Rosove 67.A2 ('Uncommon'); Spence 262; Taurus 62.
The Voyage of the 'Why Not?' in the Antarctic. The Journal of the Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908-1910 ... English Version by Philip Walsh, London and New York: Butler & Tanner for Hodder & Stoughton, [c.1911]. 4° (250 x 190mm.). Folding frontispiece, 41 leaves of plates, one map. (Some spotting to text.) Original blue cloth, upper cover blocked in gilt and blind, spine blocked in gilt and white.
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, second issue with cancel title page: 'an especially attractive volume, one of the nicest of the heroic era literature, in large octavo format with generous margins, with high-quality full-page plates, in a beautiful binding' (Rosove). Conrad p.157; Rosove 67.A2 ('Uncommon'); Spence 262; Taurus 62.
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