First on the Antarctic Continent. Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900

by Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink

$2,250 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: George Newnes, 1901. First edition. Octavo. Original publisher's blue pictorial cloth, top edge gilt. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, 3 folding maps, black and white illustrations after photographs throughout, 32 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear, occasionally uncut. Spine extremities a little bumped, otherwise a stunning, Fine copy. Rarely found in this condition.

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