CHARCOT (JEAN-BAPTISTE) The Voyage of the "Why Not?" in the Antarctic, FIRST EDITION, New York, Hodder & Stoughton, 1911
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CHARCOT (JEAN-BAPTISTE)
The Voyage of the "Why Not?" in the Antarctic. The Journal of the Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908-1910, first English edition, translated by Philip Walsh, half-title, folding frontispiece, 42 plates (mostly photographic), bookplate of W.H. Hobbs, publisher's blue-grey pictorial cloth gilt, image of the ship on the upper cover, a penguin on spine [Conrad, p.152; Renard 296; Spence 262; Rosove 67.A2; Taurus 66; OCLC 2532005], 4to (262 x 202mm.), New York, Hodder & Stoughton, 1911
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  • Provenance: William Herbert Hobbs (polar geologist and glaciologist); Christie's 9 May 2002; Martin L. Greene (Seattle).

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