Celestial & Terrestrial Exploration
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Lot 107
NORDENSKIÖLD, Otto (1869-1928). Au Pôle Antarctique. Tradui...
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NORDENSKI?LD, Otto (1869-1928). Au P?le Antarctique. Traduit par Charles Rabot. Paris: Ernest Flammarion, [ca. 1905]. 8vo. Complete with 105 illustrations. 403 pp. Publisher's crocodile leather over blue cloth boards over beveled boards, front board decoratively stamped in gilt, spine stamped in gilt, marbled endleaves (recased with hinges reinforced with brown cloth, spine a bit sunned, light rubbing, text and plates a bit toned, foxed, bookseller's description on fp. ink and pencil markings on verso of ffep). Near fine. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH - THE ??DITION ILLUSTR?E." The text (in French) and images provide descriptions of Nordenskjold' Antarctic geological explorations in three parts. Part 1 - 'Twenty two months in the ice' , 'First Antarctic country and wintering at Snow Hill', Part 2 - 'South Georgia', Part 3 - 'The end of the second winter at Snow Hill and rescue ships'. Pimentel 232. Rosove 239 (French translation).
