[Title in Russian.] Poliarnykh'stran Istoriia puteshestvii ... [i.e., Exploration of the Polar Regions ... translated from the German, edited and enlarged].
first edition
1912 · Odessa
by HASSERT, Kurt (1868-1947).
Odessa: Mathesis, 1912. First edition in Russian. Good. 23cm; [10], 206, [10], [8] pages, and two folding color maps. Bound in later red patterned cloth over boards. Binding split 1cm at upper top joint.
Extremely rare first Russian translation of the geography professor's popular "Polarforschung," first published in Germany in 1902. The Russian edition includes extra material on Russian voyages to American Arctic. A census of union catalogues turns up only the 1923 Berlin reprint of the Russian text, and few of those. The 1912 Odessa imprint, offered here, is not represented. Odessa is a very rare imprint for books on the Arctic, and we believe this is the only book-length work on the subject printed there. The folding maps show the northern and southern polar regions. (Inventory #: 4003)
Extremely rare first Russian translation of the geography professor's popular "Polarforschung," first published in Germany in 1902. The Russian edition includes extra material on Russian voyages to American Arctic. A census of union catalogues turns up only the 1923 Berlin reprint of the Russian text, and few of those. The 1912 Odessa imprint, offered here, is not represented. Odessa is a very rare imprint for books on the Arctic, and we believe this is the only book-length work on the subject printed there. The folding maps show the northern and southern polar regions. (Inventory #: 4003)