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MATSUYAMA, Shisui and Mitsuo HARADA, editors. Nankyoku Tanken [in English: Antarctic Expeditions]. Tokyo: Banrikaku Shobo, November 1930.
8vo (216 x 127 mm). Color frontispiece, 48 full-page photographic plates on 24 pages, fold-out map in color. Original pictorial yellow cloth stamped in black and orange (some spotting to text-block); original dust jacket (spine sunned, light edgewear).
FIRST EDITION of this overview of Antarctic exploration including the expeditions of James Clark Ross, Robert Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, Nobu Shirase, and others. Ross 2.2.1 (“Uncommon”).