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.

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London: William Heinemann 1900. Royal 8vo. Orig. blue/green cloth with white illust. vignette on front cover plus gilt title (recased preserving the orig. spine strip). (xxiv 478pp.). With 4 full-page coloured plates numerous full-page b/w plates maps and text-illusts. 1st edition. Uncut. Fine and complete. Spence 311. NOTE: The Heinemann First English edition as here offered is considerably scarcer than the New York Doubleday issue.