Le "Français" au Pôle Sud. Journal de l'Expédition Antarctique française 1903-1905 […] Préface par l'amiral Fournier. Ouvrage contenant trois cents illustrations et une carte hors texte. Suivi d'un exposé de quelques-uns des travaux scientifiques par les Membres de l'État-Major MM. Matha, Rey, Pléneau, Turquet, Gourdon, Charcot

First edition illustrated with 2 portraits and 318 in-text illustrations (mostly after photographs, some full-page) and a folding map at the end (cf. Rosove, Antarctica, 60 A.1d ["uncommon"]; Spence, 253).

Bound in contemporary half bottle-green shagreen, flat spine faded and decorated with gilt typographic motifs, upper headcap trimmed, cat’s-eye paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, illustrated wrappers and backstrip preserved, corners slightly rubbed.

Account of the voyage, followed by reports on several scientific studies carried out by members of the expedition: meteorology, atmospheric electricity and terrestrial magnetism by Rey; animal and plant life by Turquet; geology and glaciology by Gourdon; photography by Pléneau; bacteriology by Charcot.