Shirase Chūi Tanken-ki (An Account of Lieutenant Shirase's Expeditions)

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Shirase Chūi Tanken-ki [An Account of Lieutenant Shirase's Expeditions]

Taniguchi, Zenya, Kimura, Yoshimasa [text by].

Tōkyō: Daichisha, Shōwa 17 [1942]. First trade edition.

The first trade edition of Shirase's biography, published two years after the extremely scarce first edition. The authors, Taniguchi Zenya (1916-2011) and Kimura Yoshimasa (1913-1998), founded the Nippon Polar Research Institute together with Shirase in 1933. The work, which covers Shirase's expeditions to both the Kuril Islands and Antarctica, includes four pages of monochrome photographic illustrations and two single-page maps (one of the Kuril Islands and one of Antarctica). A single-page photographic illustration of Shirase and his wife is included in the text.

One Western-bound volume, complete, lacking original dust jacket. Original card wrappers worn and creased, with chips and wear to extremities. Sticker removals to pastedowns. Browning, light stains, and occasional foxing internally. Ex-ownership name crossed out with marker on last text page. 13, [4 p. of photographic illustrations, 2 p. of maps], 414 p. 18.3 x 13 cm.

Shirase Chūi Tanken-ki (An Account of Lieutenant Shirase's Expeditions)
Price: $2,680.00 (USD)