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SHIRASE, Nobu (1861-1946). Nobu Shirase: Watashi no Nankyoku Tanken-ki [in English: Nobu Shirase: Account of My Expedition to the South Pole]. Tokyo: Hihon Tosho Senta, 1998.
8vo (178 x 102). Photographic frontispiece, numerous illustrations in the text. Original white cloth stamped in black; original pictorial dust jacket with a portrait of Shirase.
THIRD EDITION, under a similar title as the 1942 second edition (Ross 1.4.2) titled Watakushi No Nankyoku Tanken-ki is a rewrite of Nankyoku Tanken (Ross 1.4.1). This edition varies with the addition of pages 1-42 that add details about Shirase and the Japanese Antarctic Expedition. At page 43, the text becomes identical to the first edition of Nankyoku Tanken. The drawing illustrations used in this edition are from Nankyoku-ki (Ross 1.5.1). Ross 1.4.3 (“Uncommon”).