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Southern Cross Expedition narrative w/ maps
Southern Cross Expedition narrative w/ maps
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Author: Borchgrevink, C.E.
Title: First on the Antarctic Continent Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900
Place Published: London
Publisher:George Newnes, Limited
Date Published: 1901
Description:


xv, 333, 32 ad pp. With 17 (of 18) full-page plates from photographs, 3 color maps, and other illustrations throughout the text. 21.5x14 cm (8½x5½"), original blue cloth stamped in gilt and silver gilt; top edge gilt, black endpapers. First Edition.



Account of the famous Southern Cross Expedition, which ushered in the 'Heroic' Age of Antarctic Exploration. Ex-libris bookplate of V.M. Akerman on front pastedown, clippings and related catalog entries laid in loose.

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Touches of rubbing to cloth; front hinge cracked, frontispiece replaced with facsimile, faint toning to maps; very good.
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Southern Cross Expedition narrative w/ maps

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