Traduit par M. Charles Rabot
Le Passage Du Nord-Ouest [The Northwest Passage] Traduit par M. Charles Rabot
Librairie Hachette, 1909.
First French edition. Large 8vo. Publisher's half red crushed morocco, over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Eighty six photogravure plates. Two folding maps to rear. A very good copy indeed, a couple of marks to the lower cover.
The account of Amundsen's first great Polar 'first' - becoming the first man to successfully navigate The Northwest Passage.
For the French edition the pages were reset, the illustrations done on plates, and the maps printed "en noir".
Stock ID: 42418
