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L'Expedition Antarctique Française (1903-1905)
Jean-Baptiste CHARCOT (1867-1936). The Voyage of the 'Why Not?' in the Antarctic. New York & London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]. 4° (248 x 190mm). Folding frontispiece, 41 plates, one map. (Map loosely inserted, frontispiece creased at fore-margin.) Original cloth gilt (some light soiling, small tear to lower joint, spine bumped at head and foot). Provenance: William Herbert Hobbs (bookplate). First English edition. Conrad p.152; Spence 262; Taurus 66.
[And:] 5 other works in 5 volumes (including: J.-B.CHARCOT. Journal de l'Expédition Antarctique Française 1903-1905 Le "Français au Póle Sud, Paris, 1906, 4°; J.-B.CHARCOT. Le Pourquoi-Pas? dans l'Antarctique, Paris, 1910, 4°) (6)
Jean-Baptiste CHARCOT (1867-1936). The Voyage of the 'Why Not?' in the Antarctic. New York & London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]. 4° (248 x 190mm). Folding frontispiece, 41 plates, one map. (Map loosely inserted, frontispiece creased at fore-margin.) Original cloth gilt (some light soiling, small tear to lower joint, spine bumped at head and foot). Provenance: William Herbert Hobbs (bookplate). First English edition. Conrad p.152; Spence 262; Taurus 66.
[And:] 5 other works in 5 volumes (including: J.-B.CHARCOT. Journal de l'Expédition Antarctique Française 1903-1905 Le "Français au Póle Sud, Paris, 1906, 4°; J.-B.CHARCOT. Le Pourquoi-Pas? dans l'Antarctique, Paris, 1910, 4°) (6)
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