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[SHIRASE, Nobu (1861–1946)]. –– KAMIYA, Kiichi. Nanboku Kyokuchi Tankenki [English translation: The Expeditions to South and North Poles. Tokyo: Dainihon Yubenkai Koudansha, 1938.
8vo. Color frontispiece, 68 full–page black and white plates after photographs (2 double page), 5 full–page maps. Original pictorial grey cloth blindstamped on upper cover, spine lettered in white with silver stamping (spine gently sunned, few tiny stains to upper cover).
FIRST EDITION, containing an overview of Arctic and Antarctic exploration including 44pp. pertaining to Shirase. Ross 2.3.1 (“Scarce”). –– [With:] HAMRE, Ivar. “The Japanese South Polar Expedition 1911–1912” [in The Geographical Journal, Vol. LXXXII No. 5]. London: The Royal Geographical Society, November 1933. Tall 8vo. Map in text, 4 illustrations after photographs on two plates. Original printed blue wrappers. This is the second published article in English which appeared 20 years after the first and “has served for many years as the principal source of information on the JAE for English only readers” (Ross). Ross 3.15.