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xiv, [2], 668 pp. Photographic frontispiece, 10 maps (1 folding at the end attached to the last page, 1 double-page, 5 full page, 3 in text), 12 plates (5 folding, 4 double-page, 3 full page) with the map following p. 668, 382 mostly photographic illustrations in text, between 360 and 361 there are 2 magnetic diagrams. (4to), original tan papered  illustrated boards backed with blue cloth, spine lettered in black. 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.  Scarce with all maps intact.