This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/12/2023
NIINOBE, Shuzo, editor. Nankyoku Tanken Tokushu / kokusai Chikyu Kansoku-nen ni Sasagu. English translation: Antarctic Expedition Highlights in Commemoration of the International Geophysical Year [in: Asahi Gurafu, Special New Year Edition, December 1956]. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1956.
Folio (368 x 260 mm). Illustrated with over 50 photographs, several in color, double-page map in color of Antarctica. Original pictorial wrappers (some very light edgewear).
This 40-page article was published in a special New Year’s publication with emphasis on Antarctic exploration history from James Cook to contemporary times. The article contains a special 3-page section on Nobu Shirase and interviews with crew members of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition. Includes a second copy. Ross 3.19 (“Scarce”).