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Through the First Antarctic Night 1898-1899. A Narrative of the Voyage of the "Belgica" Among Newly Discovered Lands and Over an Unknown Sea About the South Pole by Cook, Frederick A - 1900
by Cook, Frederick A
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Through the First Antarctic Night 1898-1899. A Narrative of the Voyage of the "Belgica" Among Newly Discovered Lands and Over an Unknown Sea About the South Pole
by Cook, Frederick A
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New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1900. First edition. Profusely illustrated with maps and photographs. xxiv, 478 pp. Thick 8vo. Original blue illustrated cloth lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Slight wear to extremities of boards but a near fine copy. First edition. Profusely illustrated with maps and photographs. xxiv, 478 pp. Thick 8vo. Spence p. 39 # 312; Rosove 76.A3; Taurus 19
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- Format/Binding Profusely illustrated with maps and photographs. xxiv, 478 pp. Thick 8vo
- Book Condition Used - Original blue illustrated cloth lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Slight wear to extremities of boards but a near fine copy
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- Publisher Doubleday & McClure
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1900
- Keywords Antarctic | Travel & Exploration
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Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898-1899 A Narrative of the Voyage of the Belgica Among Newly Discovered Lands and over an Unknown Sea about the South Pole
by Cook, Frederick A
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Through the First Antarctic Night 1898-1899. A Narrative of the Voyage of the " Belgica " Among Newly Discovered Lands and Over an Unknown Sea About the South Pole
by Cook, Frederick A
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New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1900. Hardcover. very good. 1st Author's Signed Edition Limited to 1000 copies numbered and signed. xxiv,478pp. Thick Quarto rebound in half calf and marbled boards with four coloured plates (including frontipiece) and b&w plates from photos and illustrations in text from drawings (including maps). Copy #73 with engraved portrait. With some minor soiling in margins and rear leaf repaired with some loss of text. very good Spence 312 (Trade Edition). Account of the 1897-99 Belgian Antarctic Exoedition in the Belgica, a 3 masted steam/sailing ship formerly the whaler Patria sponsored by the Belgian government. Frederick Cook joined the expedition at Rio. The ship made 20 separate landings on the the islands off the Antarctic Peninsula and became the first scientific vessel to visit the continent itself. After crossing the Antarctic circle the Belgica became trapped in the pack ice and drifted for a year before being able to cut their way out. The…
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Through the First Antarctic Night 1898-1899. A Narrative of the Voyage of the "Belgica" Among Newly Discovered Lands and Over an Unknown Sea About the South Pole
by Cook, Frederick A
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London: William Heinemann, 1900. Hardcover. very good. 1st UK Edition. xxiv, 478pp. Octavo. Original blue decorated cloth. Untrimmed. Four colored plates, many others from photos. Map. Spine a bit dull otherwise a very attractive copy. very good Spence 311. Narrative of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache. Cook served as surgeon and anthropologist and Roald Amundsen was first mate. This first UK edition seems scarcer than the US edition. 1900
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