Quinze mois dans l'Antarctique De Gerlache
1902. No edition remarks. 302 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound blue leather with marbled paper covered boards and gilt lettering to spine. Black and white photographs and illustrations. A fold-out colour map at rear. Marbled endpapers. In French. Rough cut edges to textblock with gilt top edge. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters. Binding slightly loose. Boards have heavy wear with bumped and abraded corners. Spine ends similarly worn and spine itself strongly scuffed. Gilt dulled. Board surfaces scratched and rubbed.