8vo. With folding sketch map and 300 plates and illustrations from photographs and drawings. Modern half morocco, with original pictorial gray wrappers bound in (lightly chipped). FIRST EDITION. The first French Antarctic expedition, after which "Charcot returned to a hero's welcome. The expedition had lost not a single life, almost a thousand miles of coast had been charted, and the first accurate map of western archipelago of Graham Land had been compiled" (Howgego). This is the official narrative, including several specialist Scientific reports. No English translation exists. Conrad, p.134; Renard 300; Rosove 60.A1.c; Spence 253; Taurus 54; Headland 1631.