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

POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912

[SHIRASE (NOBU)] Nankyoku-ki, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING,
text in Japanese, 4 coloured plates, numerous 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/spotting to text, light dampstain in upper blank margin of approximately 30 leaves, a few small paper repairs, publisher's dark blue cloth, blind-stamped pictorial decoration and silver gilt lettering on upper cover, silver gilt lettering on spine (rubbed), one endpaper replaced to match, joints neatly repaired [Rosove 309.A1a ('rare'); Ross 1.5.1 ('rare')], 8vo, Tokyo, Seikô Zasshisha, 15 December 1913

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