J.-B. Charcot - Le "Français" au Pôle Sud. Journal de l'expédition antarctique française, 1903-1905 - 1906

Preface by Admiral Fournier. Paris, Flammarion, s.d. [1906].
Grand in-8, demi chagrin vert, dos orné, couverture illustrée. Original edition of the account of the first Antarctic expedition led by Charcot in 1903-1906 aboard the schooner Le Français. It is adorned with 300 photographic illustrations in the text and on full page, and with a folding map of the coasts explored by the expedition. Charming three-tone (black, white and gray) illustrated cover, depicting mainly penguins and seals on the ice floe.