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DRYGALSKI, Erich von

"Zum Kontinent des Eisigen Südens; Deutsche Sudpolarexpedition, Fahreten und Forschungen des "Gauss," 1901-1903"

Berlin
Georg Reimer
1904

€240 - €300

4to, xiv, [2], 668 pp. Photographic frontispiece, 10 maps (1 folding at rear pocket, 1 double-page, 5 full page, 3 in text), 12 plates (5 folding, 4 double-page, 3 full page), 382 mostly photographic illustrations in text, between 360 and 361 there are 2 magnetic diagrams. With a handwritten dedication from the author, signed. Original pictorial grey gilt cloth

FIRST EDITION. With their ship frozen in ice for almost a year in 1901-1903 the first German expedition of its kind had little opportunity to explore the coastline of Wilhelm II in the ship "Der Gauss". Instead Drygalski and his crew amassed a tremendous amount of scientific data, which was published over a period of twenty-six years. The English version was not published until 85 years later

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