Das Festland am Sudpol by Borchgrevink, Carsten Egeberg - 1905: Die Expedition zum Sudpolarland in den Jahren 1898-1900 Nach Skizzen und Zeichnungen des Verfassers illustriert von Otto Sinding und E.Ditlevsen und mit Reproduktionen photographischer Original-Aufnahmen

Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland): Schlesische Verlags-Anstalt Schottlaender,1905 First Serial Edition. 8vo – 26.5 cm. ¾ leather and marble boards with matching marbled end leaves. (5), 609 pp., (30). Illustrated with 6 full-page color plates, 2 full-page color maps, 4 black-and-white maps full-page and half-page charts and numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations in text; scientific appendices at rear. Text in German.

Bound in 3/4 brown leather and marbled paper cloth with gilt titles and gilt call number present to the spine. Boards with corners and extremities bumped and rubbed. Bookplate present inside front cover, call numbers in some interior areas. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, half-title present, paper is old and brittle in places making this a complete but delicate item. This is a most unique set of the bound serial publications totaling 22 volumes published in 15 parts. All of the front and rear covers for each serial publication are bound at the rear and in complete and very good condition. Rare

In 1894, Borchgrevink shipped on board the whaler "Antarctic" on its way to the Ross Sea, as a deckhand and part-time scientist. He took part in the historic landing at Cape Adare, and he collected the first vegetation to be found within the Antarctic Circle. He traveled to London and under the financial sponsorship of Sir George Newnes, the wealthy publisher, sailed in 1898 as commander of the "Southern Cross" expedition. He spent the first winter on the continent and made the first sledge journey on the Ross Ice Shelf. The "Southern Cross" expedition also laid claim to other notable achievements to include: the first dogs used on the Antarctic continent, a furthest south record, the first sledge journey on the Ross Ice Shelf, and today best remembered as having discovered the northward movement of the Ross Ice Shelf and the emperor penguin rookery at Cape Crozier. This is an important account of one of the most significant voyages to the Antarctic Continent during the heroic age of exploration in the high latitudes.