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JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912 [SHIRASE (NOBU] Nankyoku-ki, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, Tokyo, Seikô Zasshisha, 15 December 1913 image 1
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JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912
[SHIRASE (NOBU] Nankyoku-ki, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, Tokyo, Seikô Zasshisha, 15 December 1913

14 September 2021, 13:00 BST
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JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912

[SHIRASE (NOBU] Nankyoku-ki, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, 4 coloured plates, 33 full-page photographic illustrations (one double-page), one folding colour-printed map, illustrations in the text, publisher's red-printed colophon mounted on card (as issued), toning to a few leaves of text but generally clean, publisher's dark blue cloth, blindstamped pictorial decoration and silver gilt lettering on upper cover, silver gilt lettering on spine (rubbed), joints neatly repaired [Rosove 309.A1a ("rare"); Ross 1.5.1 ("rare")], 8vo, Tokyo, Seikô Zasshisha, 15 December 1913

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RARE first edition, first printing of the "official account" of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition 1910-1912. Based upon the journals and logs of team leader Nobu Shirase and other exhibition members it also includes information on the scientific findings.

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