Through the First Antarctic Night 1898-1899 A Narrative of the Voyage of the Belgica Among Newly Discovered Lands and Over An Unknown Sea about the South Pole. COOK, Frederick Albert.

First trade edition, America issue, of this account of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, on which Cook served as surgeon and anthropologist. When the expedition became trapped in the ice after crossing the Antarctic Circle, "Cook soon proved the most invaluable of the scientists. He devised a crude form of light therapy to treat what is now commonly known as seasonal affective disorder" (Howgego). Roald Amundsen, who served as first mate, contributes Appendix V, "The Navigation of the Antarctic Ice-Pack". He distinguished himself during the expedition by becoming the first person to ski on Antarctica. Howgego C24; Spence 312. Octavo. Tissue-guarded colour frontispiece, 78 plates (3 colour), vignettes and maps in text. Original blue straight-grain cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, front board with vignette in white, black, and red, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Bookplate of William Henry Rossington (1872-1905). Cloth toned, spine ends repaired and recoloured, inner hinges strengthened: contents lightly toned: very good.