Le Chevalier des Glaces: Aventures de Mer du Commandant Jean Charcot.
Lyon: Editions du Salut Public, 1941.
Quarto, 4 leaves of black & white plates, line drawings, good, in the original coloured pictorial boards, cloth-backed.
First edition and unusual. An illustrated account for children of the adventures of Jean-Baptiste Charcot, France's foremost Antarctic explorer. Charcot died when his vessel the Pourquoi Pas was wrecked in a storm of the coast of Iceland in 1936.
Condition Report: The paper a little toned and one page creased; some wear to extremities and a little rubbed.
Ref: #3501526