Au Pole Antarctique
[At the Antarctic Pole]
Nordenskjold, Otto
Paris: E. Flammarion, Paris, 1905. First Edition. French translation by Charles Rabot. 8vo – 23.0 cm. 403 pp, 105 illustrations (complete), Illustration of Nordenskjold on frontispiece. ¾ leather and cloth on beveled boards with pebbled brown spine and corners, sky-blue boards with bright gilt cover image and lettering, bright gilt spine titles, marbled endpapers professionally reinforced; binding tight, internally with slight intermittent beginning foxing and no prior ownership markings. a Near Fine copy of this lovely French production. Pimentel 232; Rosove 239 (French translation).
The text (in French) and images provide descriptions of Nordenskjold’s Antarctic geological explorations in three parts. Part 1 – ‘Twenty two months in the ice’ , ‘First Antarctic country and wintering at Snow Hill’, Part 2 – ‘South Georgia’, Part 3 – ‘The end of the second winter at Snow Hill and rescue ships’.
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