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TANIGUCHI, Zenya (1916-2011) and Yoshimasa KIMURA (1913-1998). Nankyoku: Rekishi to Shorai [in English: South Pole: Its History and Future]. Tokyo: Saera Shobo, 1956.
8vo (210 x 146 mm). Color frontispiece, numerous illustrations in the text from photographs, maps and charts, foldout map at end. Original light green cloth-backed color pictorial boards (some light edge rubbing); original dust jacket (tears with losses on front panel, edgewear).
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY TANIGUCHI. A concisely written and profusely illustrated book providing a chronological history of Antarctic exploration from Captain James Cook and past the heroic era. The book places a significant emphasis on scientific research involvements and achievements up until the Japanese Antarctic research expeditions of the early 1950s. Ross 2.7.1 (“Scarce”).