COOK, FREDERICK A. 1865-1940.

COOK, FREDERICK A. 1865-1940.
Through the First Antarctic Night 1898-99. A Narrative of the Voyage of the "Belgica" among Newly Discovered Lands, and Over an Unknown Sea about the South Pole. London: William Heinemann, 1900.
8vo. Half-title, frontispiece, 76 plates, 21 illustrations and maps in text. Publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt, upper cover with an image of the ship Belgica surrounded by ice. Slightly loose, shelf wear.

FIRST EDITION, the British edition being scarcer than the U.S. edition that was published the same year. The contents were partially culled from articles written by Cook for Century, Scribner's, and McClure's magazines. Spence 311; Rosove 76.A3.