The Voyage of the 'Why Not?' (First English Edition)

Translated by Philip Walsh. Inscribed in ink and pencil by previous owners on the FFEP. The 'Pourquoi-Pas?' was later lost in the Arctic when her boilers exploded. All but one of the crew were killed, including Dr Charcot.

First English edition. New York & London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1912. 4to. Original blue-green publisher's cloth. Pages: Fold-out frontispiece, viii, 316. 41 plates, 48 B/W photographs.

Original blue-green publisher's cloth. Spine lettered and ruled in gilt with illustration of penguin blocked in white. Cover title and stamped illustration of the 'Pourquoi-Pas' in gilt, double margins ruled in blind. Very good. Some bumping and rubbing to spine head and foot, as well as cover corners. Age toning on endpapers and at page edges. Plates in excellent condition, very mild toning. Contents bright and clear, with only minor foxing here and there.

Full title: The Voyage of the 'Why Not?' in the Antarctic: The Journal of the Second French Expedition, 1908-1910.

Provenance: From the library of Warwick H. Williams.

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