BORCHGREVINK, Carsten E. FIRST ON THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENT:

BORCHGREVINK, Carsten E. FIRST ON THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENT: being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898 – 1900. Octavo, with photogravure frontispiece portrait, three folding tinted maps, numerous illustrations in the text (many full-page), and pp. 32 (advertisements dated in code “1.01” on the first page), original silver and gilt pictorial cloth, fine, spine gilt faded, front board lettered in gilt and with an attractive gilt and silver block of a ship in ice, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, Newnes, 1901. First edition (primary binding) of an attractive and important book. This is the leader and organiser’s account of the Antarctic cruise of the Southern Cross, the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic continent and the first to use dogs in the Antarctic. The party made first landings on Coulman Island and Ross Island, built a hut at Cape Adare, and were the first to travel over the Ross Ice Shelf, establishing a new furthest south. Louis Bernacchi was a member of the expedition and wrote his own account of it, also published in 1901. Renard, 152; Rosove, 45.A1; Spence, 151.