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COOK, Frederick A. (1865–1940). Vers le Pole Sud. Paris: Ernest Flammarion, [1902]. 8vo. Numerous plates from photographs, folding map. Original half textured calf over blue cloth gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut (minor shelf wear). FIRST FRENCH EDITION translated by A. L. Pfinder. –– Die erste Südpolarnacht 1898–1899. Kempten: Jos. Kösel, 1903. 8vo. Numerous illustrations and maps, including some in color. Publisher’s red pictorial cloth (covers lightly rubbed). FIRST GERMAN EDITION, translated by Dr. Anton Weber. Spence 313. –– Together, 2 works in 2 volumes, condition generally very good. Cook was an American explorer who claimed to have reached the North Pole before Robert Peary which would have made him the first American to do so but this claim has been disputed ever since.