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[POLAR EXPLORATION] BORCHGREVINK, Carsten Egebert (1864–1934). First on the Antarctic Continent. Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition 1898–1900. London: George Newnes, 1901. 8vo. Includes 32pp. ads. FIRST EDITION. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, 3 color-printed folding maps, 18 black & white plates, numerous intertextual illustrations from photographs. Original red cloth titled in gilt (spine darkened and reinforced at ends, upper joint a bit touched up, boards with few dark smudges, endpapers toned; rubber stamp of the Polar Book Service on rear pastedown). Rosvoe 45.A1; Spence 152; Taurus 24. An account of the voyage of the ‘Southern Cross’, in which Borchgrevink and his team reached the furthest point south that was ever attained at the time which also included “a number of ‘firsts’: the first time dogs were used on the Antarctic continent, a furthest south record, the first sledge journey on the Ross Ice Shelf” (Taurus).