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KAMIYA, Kiichi. Nanboku Kyokuchi Tanken-ki [in English: The Expeditions to South and North Poles]. Tokyo: Dainihon Yubenkai Koudansha, August 1938.
8vo (216 x 127 mm). Color frontispiece, 66 full-page photographic plates, 2 double-page, 5 full-page maps. Original grey cloth stamped in blind with a polar scene on upper cover, spine stamped in silver and white; original dust jacket (spine sunned, some edgewear). (Evenly toned at margins, some spotting).
FIRST EDITION of this overview of Arctic and Antarctic exploration including the exploits of Robert Peary, Fridtjof Nansen, James Clark Ross, Richard Byrd, Robert Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen and Nobu Shirase. The section pertaining to Shirase and the Japanese Antarctic Expedition consists of 44 pages and includes 10 full-page black-and-white plates with 1 each or multiple photographs; 1 full-page map. In the rare dust jacket. Ross 2.3.1 (“Scarce”).