CHARCOT, Jean-Baptiste (1867-1936). Journal de l’Expédition Antarctique Français: Le “Francais” au Pôle Sud. Paris: Ernest Flammarion, [1906].
4to. Half-title, photographic frontispiece, 318 illustrations in text including 24 full-page plates, folding map. Half contemporary green morocco gilt, marbled sides, top edge gilt (spine gently sunned); ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS bound in.
FIRST EDITION in the original French containing the first official narrative of the first French Antarctic expedition, after which “Charcot returned to a hero’s welcome. The expedition had lost not a single life, almost a thousand miles of coast had been charted, and the first accurate map of western archipelago of Graham Land and had been compiled” (Howgego). The expedition surveyed the west coast of Palmer Peninsula, discovered Loubel Coast, Peltier Channel and charted the Biscoe Islands, managing to create the best charts to date of large portions of the Antarctic Peninsula and Gerlache Strait. Conrad, p. 134; Rosove 60.A1.a; Spence 253; Taurus 54.
[With:] Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1867-1936. Paris: Yacht Club de France, [1936]. 4to. Illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers (spine sunned). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 900 copies. Rosove 69.A1; Spence 264. -- [With:] Association des Amis Des Musees de la Marine Le Pourquoi-Pas? Paris: Association des Amis…, 1960. 4to. Original color pictorial folder. Contains a brochure, a folding blueprint for building a model of the vessel (46 x 35”), and 2 large photographic plates of the completed model.