First edition. Title-page, map, [2], 17 leaves of halftone photographic plates. Oblong 4to. Staplebound in publisher's printed mauve card wrappers. Corners a little wrinkled and slight offsetting to tp, inner two bifolia loose. In a later red card slipcase.
[with:] First edition. Sketch map, 85 halftone photographic illustrations all within pagination, printed in dark blue ink. Oblong 4to. Publisher's printed blue card wrappers, in a later binding of three quarter cloth over marbled paper boards, gilt title to spine. Central pages coming loose, a little offsetting and a small marginal tear title-page, restored. Else very good. 32pp.
Paris, Flammarion, 1906.
Two very rare printed brochures of photographs taken during the first and second French Antarctic expeditions under the captaincy of Jean-Baptiste Charcot. Both are signed by Charcot to the title-pages, one with an inscription to a Mr Créach.
The booklets, which reproduce photographs taken by various crew members were published in small numbers as keepsakes, and unlike the official expedition narratives, were not offered for sale. As such, they offer a private view of these two expeditions. The title-pages bear the part-printed presentation: "Offert à M_____", which is further evidence of the extent to which they were produced xfor individualised presentation.
French explorer and oceanographer Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936)'s first and second expeditions were aboard the ships Français and Pourquoi-Pas? IV. Focusing on coastal charting and oceanographic studies, they explored portions of Graham Land and the Palmer Archipelago, and mapped the coast of Alexander Island along with other features of the Bellingshausen Sea. As a testament to the success of this venture, the maps, which were still being used by whalers 25 years' later, chart nearly 2000 kilometres of the Antarctic coast.
Rosove, 62.A1 ("Rare"), & not in Rosove.
