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Sangaku [The Mountain] - The Journal of the Japanese Alpine Club. Volume XXXI, No. 1 & No 2. 1936


山岳

Sangaku – The Mountain
The Journal of the Japanese Alpine Club. Volume XXXI, No. 1 & No 2. 1936

By Nobu Shirase and Tatsumi Shimada

A very important pub...

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Post cards: Antarctic Expedition: Lieutenant Shirase


絵葉書■南極探検■南極圏実景 白瀬中尉他
Post cards: Antarctic Expedition: Lieutenant Shirase

Japanese Antarctic Expedition — 2 original postcards. c. 1913. Captioned in Japanese.

Two rare postcard...

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Post cards: Japanese Antarctic Expedition: Actual scenes of Antarctic Circle Lieutenant Shirase and others 8 cards and case


絵葉書■南極探検■南極圏実景 白瀬中尉他 8枚袋 大2

Post cards: Japanese Antarctic Expedition: Actual scenes of Antarctic Circle Lieutenant Shirase and others 8 c...

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“Die Japanische Südpol-Expedition Unter Shirase”


“The Japanese South Pole Expedition Under Shirase”

By Michaelsen and O. Baschin

The Journal of the Society for Earth Science of Berlin was published in ten volumes each year. Toward t...

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Ainu Monogatari - [The Ainu Story].


By Yasunasuke, Yamabe. あいぬ物語

Tokyo: Hakubunkan, November 1913. 8vo (226 x 114 mm). Includes 5 full-page photographic plates. The original black boards are stamped in red and white, with the ...

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Proceedings of the "Proteus" Court of Inquiry on the Greely Relief Expedition of 1883. - 48th Congress, 1st Session.


RE: Adolphus W. Greely – [Relief Expedition]

Association copy: Bearing the private library label of Lawrence Gould, Geologist and second in command of Admiral Richard Byrd’s South Polar Exp...

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Report on the Proceedings of the United States Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell Land.


RE: Adolphus W. Greely

Government Printing Office., Washington,1888. 4to. (29 centimeters high). In two Volumes: Volume l, 545 pp. including 3 folding maps and numerous plates and...

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Olney Hymns – In Three Books


• On Select Text of Scripture
• On Occasional Subjects
• On the Progress & changes of the Spiritual Life

By Newton, Rev. James

London: Thomas Tegg. 1779, First Editi...

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“Forgotten Antarctic Venture: The First Japanese South Polar Expedition 1911–1912”


By R.A. Swan

Australian National Travel Association, Walkabout. Edition Vol. 21, no.8, 1 August 1955. A Near Fine and complete copy. Ross 3.18.

An informative article about Nobu...

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白瀬中尉探検記(伝記・白瀬矗) – Shirase Chui Tanken-ki (Denki – Shirase Nobu)


Account of Shirase’s Expedition to the South Pole
By Zenya Taniguchi and Yoshimasa Kimura

Signed by Zenya Taniguchi

Tokyo: Ozorasha, 2nd Trade Edition, February, 1997, Limited t...

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