The South Pole. An account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

by Roald Amundsen

$4,250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: John Murray, 1912. First edition in English of Amundsen's account of the first expedition to reach the South Pole, more than a month before Robert Scott; 2 volumes, large 8vo, portrait frontispieces with tissue guards, plates, maps, graphs, and tables in the text; original red decorated cloth, covers and spines lettered in gilt, t.e.g.; a fine, bright set. Translated from the Norwegian by A.G. Chater. The English edition includes ten additional

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