DRYGALSKI, ERICH VON. 1865-1949.
Zum Kontinent des eisigen Südens. Deutsche Südpolar Expedition fahrten des "Gauss" 1901-1903. Berlin: George Reimer, 1904.
Zum Kontinent des eisigen Südens. Deutsche Südpolar Expedition fahrten des "Gauss" 1901-1903. Berlin: George Reimer, 1904.
4to. 668 pp. Half-title, photogravure frontispiece of Gauss, numerous plates, plans and maps (some folding), large folding map at end. Publisher's gray cloth over pictorial boards.
FIRST EDITION. A narrative of the German South Polar Expedition of 1901-03, whose ship Gauss was the second to winter over in the Antarctic, having become trapped in the ice fifty miles from the coast. The expedition brought home a windfall of scientific material that was studied for more than twenty years after their return. Rosove 101.A1.a; Spence 384; Taurus 28.
WITH: Five pamphlets on the scientific results of Belgian and German expeditions, 1897-1911, including CHUN, CARL. Die Beziehungen zwischen dem arktischen und antarktischen Plankton. (1897) ARCTOWSKI, HENRYK. Die antarktischen Eisverhältnisse. (1903) and Plan de Voyage de la Seconde Expedition Antarctique Belge. (1907) DRYGALSKI, ERICH VON. Das Schelfeis der Antarktis am Gaussberg. (1910) and KOLLBACH, KARL. Volksbücher der Erdkunde der Sudpol. (1911)
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Zum Kontinent des eisigen Südens. Deutsche Südpolar Expedition fahrten des "Gauss" 1901-1903. Berlin: George Reimer, 1904.
Zum Kontinent des eisigen Südens. Deutsche Südpolar Expedition fahrten des "Gauss" 1901-1903. Berlin: George Reimer, 1904.
4to. 668 pp. Half-title, photogravure frontispiece of Gauss, numerous plates, plans and maps (some folding), large folding map at end. Publisher's gray cloth over pictorial boards.
FIRST EDITION. A narrative of the German South Polar Expedition of 1901-03, whose ship Gauss was the second to winter over in the Antarctic, having become trapped in the ice fifty miles from the coast. The expedition brought home a windfall of scientific material that was studied for more than twenty years after their return. Rosove 101.A1.a; Spence 384; Taurus 28.
WITH: Five pamphlets on the scientific results of Belgian and German expeditions, 1897-1911, including CHUN, CARL. Die Beziehungen zwischen dem arktischen und antarktischen Plankton. (1897) ARCTOWSKI, HENRYK. Die antarktischen Eisverhältnisse. (1903) and Plan de Voyage de la Seconde Expedition Antarctique Belge. (1907) DRYGALSKI, ERICH VON. Das Schelfeis der Antarktis am Gaussberg. (1910) and KOLLBACH, KARL. Volksbücher der Erdkunde der Sudpol. (1911)
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